The Place4Grace, San Bernardino, CA Videos

📚✨Happy Friday 🤓✨📚!!!Today we wanted to highlight one of our father’s Family2Child Literacy recording 🎙️🗣️! Ryan, a member of our CIM group, selected the book “First Star: A Bear and Mole Story” 🐻📖⭐️ for his recording. It is incredibly special and important for a father who is inside to read a book for their child, as it allows them to maintain a connection and bond with their children despite being separated. In this case, Ryan dedicated this recording to his children, Avery and Tristan, showing his love and commitment to being present in their lives even during difficult times 🫂💖. #First5SanBernardino#Place4Grace#Families4Grace#StillFamilies#SchoolsNotPrisons#ReunificationLooksLikeLiberation#LetsGetFREE#ChildrenoflncarceratedParents#SanBernardino

We have another group of wonderful people HOME2STAY 🤗💓🏠!!! Let’s welcome home Miriam, Joaquin, Rodolpho, and Dillion 🥳✨! We are beyond excited for these four individuals as they have all secured employment opportunities 🥹. After doing 15 years inside, Miriam is now working as a baker👩‍🍳! She has an incredibly positive spirit and hopes to work with our program one day 💓. Joaquin is home after serving 20+ years. He’s now transitioning back to society in a positive light. Since his release he’s been able to secure employment and has a strong support system from his family 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒💓. Rodolpho has been out for less than 90 days and has already secured his spot with Cal trans work program 🚉💓. Last but not least we have Dillion who is home after serving 8 years. Since his release he’s been an active participant in the VARP program. He has also completed the 1st cohort with CEO’s work program 💓! W E L C O M E 🏠 H O M E ! ! ! #First5SanBernardino #Place4Grace #Families4Grace #StillFamilies #SchoolsNotPrisons #ReunificationLooksLikeLiberation #LetsGetFREE #ChildrenoflncarceratedParents #SanBernardino

Mike and Richard are Home2Stay 🏡💖! Mike is home after serving a few years as a 1st timer. He is grateful to be out and says that he sees the beauty in having his freedom so he doesn’t want to take it for granted 🥹🙏🏽. Since his release he’s been working in construction 🚧✨. Richard is an army veteran, and now he’s home after serving a few years in prison. Richard has been positive about his recovery journey and is striving to be a better version of himself 🙌🏽✨. 🥳 W E L C O M E H O M E 🥳 #First5SanBernardino #Place4Grace #Families4Grace #StillFamilies #SchoolsNotPrisons #ReunificationLooksLikeLiberation #LetsGetFREE #ChildrenoflncarceratedParents #SanBernardino

These past few months we have started focusing on our Family2Child Literacy Program once again at CIM 📚💫!Our team goes in and gives our fathers an opportunity to be able to read to their child and loved ones.Our process usually begins by having our fathers pick from our large book selection 📕. Then, one of our team members will record our fathers reading it with an additional special message to their loved one 🗣️❣️. Once our team retrieves all of the books and recordings they ship them out with a special gift 🧸✨🪀.This overall process can be very meaningful to our families as many of them aren’t able to see their loved ones inside very often. Despite the absence, this program allows our fathers to be able to read 📖, laugh 🤣 , and make weird voices to suit each character from the books to their children. In doing so, they are creating emotional bonds when reading together 🫂❣️.If you listen to the audio you’ll be able to hear a snippet of one of our most recent recordings where one of our fathers read “Not Quit Snow White” to their daughter 👑✨!#First5SanBernardino#Place4Grace#Families4Grace#StillFamilies#SchoolsNotPrisons#ReunificationLooksLikeLiberation#LetsGetFREE#ChildrenoflncarceratedParents#SanBernardino

✨Our friends at @haarpucsd have sent us a video discussing their time tutoring and helping youth impacted by incarceration 👨‍🏫📚👩‍🏫! 💛 HAARP is the Health and Anti-Recidivism Project at UCSD 💙. This wonderful group of students help our kids with homework 📝; prepping for tests📓, developing new study skills💡, and simply going over subject material some more 🥹✨. Together we hope to provide quality 1-on-1 online tutoring free of charge to help you take charge of your academic pursuits 🎓✨! 📣 If your family or someone you know may benefit from tutoring this year, please fill out or share the google form linked in our bio ✨❕ Play to listen as to why these students love being part of this program 💞✨!!! #Place4Grace #StillFamilies #StillDads #CampGrace #SchoolsNotPrisons #ReunificationLooksLikeLiberation #LetsGetFree #ChildrenOfIncarceratedParents

✨❄️ Happy Holidays!❄️✨ From all of us at The Place4Grace! We extend our heartfelt thanks for your invaluable support this year🙏🏽 Check out our end of the year newsletter ⭐️ https://conta.cc/41BBtpe

Come out and celebrate 🎉 JUNETEENTH 🎉 with us and tons of community organizations in San Bernardino! . . #ChildrenOfIncarceratedParents #Juneteenth #SchoolsNotPrisons #LetsGetFREE

✨Reflecting on 2022✨Kids and parents reuniting 💜Welcoming folks home 💜Loved ones reading to their children 💜Spreading some joy in the community 💜 We thank you for your continued support 🤗💜Happy New Year 🎊 #Place4Grace #Families4Grace #Stillfamilies #StillDads #CampGrace #SchoolsNotPrisons #ReunificationLooksLikeLiberation #LetsGetFREE #ChildrenofIncarceratedParents

The Place4Grace Family2Child Literacy Program
🔈Sound on for this one‼️🔈 ✨Listen in and learn more about our Family2Child Literacy Program✨ Some of the sweetest messages from our participants to their babies 💖 Support Family2Child Literacy and keeping families connected today 🙌🏽 Your support helps sustain the Family2Child Literacy program, helping us: ⭐️purchase books ⭐️store the audio recordings for children and families ⭐️support postage/mailings https://linktr.ee/theplace4grace ⬆️Click the link for more details⬆️ . . . . #Place4Grace #Families4Grace #StillDads #SchoolsNotPrisons #ReunificationLooksLikeLiberation #LetsGetFREE #ChildrenofIncarceratedParents #love #literacy #shortstory

😍🥺 repost from @bighousecardco 🥺😍 “To the dad's behind the wall, Happy Father's Day💙💙💙 📸 @theplace4grace “ Thank you so much @bighousecardco for this beautiful tribute to our Camp Grace dads 💜💜💜 The presence of a loving father is greater than one hundred mentors💜 Children are deserving of their father’s love, attention and affection 🥰 . . . . #Place4Grace #Families4Grace #Stillfamilies #StillDads #CampGrace #SchoolsNotPrisons #ReunificationLooksLikeLiberation #LetsGetFREE #ChildrenofIncarceratedParents #fathersday #fathersmatter #prisonreform #criminaljusticereform

😁What are you doing on Saturday?? 😁 It’s the perfect time to get out and celebrate Summer with us at our Family Summer Kickoff event ☀️🙌🏽⛱🌺 There will be 🌮🌮Tacos 🌮🌮 🍕Pizza 🍕 . 🧸🏀🤩PRIZES🤩🏀🧸 . 💰Gift Cards💰 . 🎶🎤🎧DJ Spinning R & B🎧🎤🎶 . 🐸 📖 Story Time @prison_arts_collective 📖🐸 . 🚌🧸Get on the Bus Bear & Friends🧸🚌 . 🎨🖼Painting🖼🎨 . 🧶🧵🧑🏾‍🎨Arts & Crafts station🧑🏾‍🎨🧵🧶 . 🧘🏽‍♀️🧘🏿🧘🏾‍♂️Family Yoga Session🧘🏾‍♂️🧘🏿🧘🏽‍♀️ . 💜🎖🏆Honoring Dr. Margaret Hill🏆🎖💜 . 📣🎩Special Guest Terrance Stone🎩📣 . ⛑✊🏽Community Resources✊🏽⛑ That was a lot! But we are so excited and we cannot wait to see YOU there 🥳🤗 . . . . #First5SanBernardino #Place4Grace #Families4Grace #StillDads #SchoolsNotPrisons #ReunificationLooksLikeLiberation #LetsGetFREE #ChildrenofIncarceratedParents #FamilySummerKickOff #SanBernardino

Camp 12 has ended. It’s the day after camp, and we are already missing our camp kids like crazy ☹️💜 and can only imagine how much our dads do too!! It was an amazing week for all of us! Thank you again to staff at CCI for going above and beyond for us and for truly believing in how valuable this opportunity is for these families 💜 Please enjoy some behind the scenes moments with our campers! Our Place4grace family continues to grow and that is a beautiful feeling 😁🎉✨ . . . . #Place4Grace #Families4Grace #Stillfamilies #StillDads #CampGrace #SchoolsNotPrisons #ReunificationLooksLikeLiberation #LetsGetFREE #ChildrenofIncarceratedParents

⭐️🥳Family Feature Friday - Birthday Addition 🥳⭐️ It’s one of our Camp Dad’s birthdays today… Happy Birthday to Don 🎉 don’t worry, we won’t tell everyone how old you are 😉 AND it was also a very special birthday for his beautiful daughter Mahliyah who celebrated her Quinceañera over the weekend ~ Felicidades 🎉💜 Even though Don could not be there in person, we did find out he wrote a poem for Mahliyah that was shared on her special day 🥺 the family graciously gave us permission to share 💜 Sending lots of love to these two ✨ Check out our Instagram for more photos https://www.instagram.com/theplace4grace/ . . . . #Place4Grace #Families4Grace #StillDads #SchoolsNotPrisons #ReunificationLooksLikeLiberation #LetsGetFREE #ChildrenofIncarceratedParents #girldad

Limbo anyone? 😄 We love all of the fun/random moments between our families 💜 We’re really just one big family in this experience together ✨ . . . . #Place4Grace #Families4Grace #StillDads #SchoolsNotPrisons #ReunificationLooksLikeLiberation #LetsGetFREE #ChildrenofIncarceratedParents