Purpose

1. To help group members develop the appropriate life skills necessary to being productive members of society.
2. To provide an open environment where group members can share insights, feelings and experiences.
3. To help group members take ownership of their own thoughts, feelings and behaviors and to, ultimately, take responsibility for their choices.

Objective

1. Identify issues that trigger criminal behavior and other poor decision-making.
2. Identify effective and healthy ways to handle triggering issues.
3. Identify and understand criminal thinking errors.
4. Learn effective problem-solving skills.
5. Learn appropriate relationship skills.
6. Learn productive life skills.
7. Learn to take responsibility for choices and the respective consequences.
8. Understand how perception influences experience, attitude and behavior.
9. Become a productive member of society!

Evaluation
1. Group members will be given a questionnaire asking them: 1) to identify a goal that they would like to achieve by attending the group; 2) to identify triggers that influence them to engage in addictive behaviors; 3) to identify current coping strategies pertaining to each trigger; and 4) to describe, on a monthly basis, the issues they have addressed and any progress they feel they have made toward the achievement of their goal.
2. The progress of each group member will be monitored through monthly self-report using the above-mentioned questionnaire, as well as through weekly discussions, activities and assignments.

Method
1. Group will be open and ongoing and will meet weekly for one hour.
3. Group will incorporate a combination of psychoeducational themes and open process/discussion.
3. Group will consist, exclusively, of adult, female inmates.