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LOWCOUNTRY CIVIC JUSTICE CORPS PREPARES TO SWEAR IN THEIR 4TH CLASS
07/11/2008
Participants accepted into the Lowcountry Civic Justice Corps take the AmeriCorps Oath of Sevice - "I am an AmeriCorps member, and I will get things done."
LOWCOUNTRY CIVIC JUSTICE CORPS PREPARES TO SWEAR IN THEIR 4TH CLASS
After successfully completing three sessions Lowcountry Civic Justice Corps, a unique program to bring ex-offenders back into the community, opens their doors for the next crop of eager participants
North Charleston, SC (July 11, 2008) – The Lowcountry Civic Justice Corps will swear in its forth group of Coastal Pre-release Center inmates on Monday July 14, 2008. After completing a process of careful screening, interviews and testing of over eighty eager applicants the LCJC has selected eleven new men and two exceptional veterans to make up the new Corps.
The LCJC, a program of the Noisette Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization, has taken on the mission of making men, whom by many are considered liabilities, into community assets. Individuals who complete the program re-enter the community with a renewed sense of accountability and civic responsibility. Trained in all areas of carpentry and “Green” building and supplied with vocational training, computer skills, financial literacy training and mentoring they are equipped with viable job skills, an improved level of education and the support needed to successfully make a positive transition back into society.
“I feel honored and privileged to be a part of the 4th LCJC class,” says David Snyder, of the Noisette Foundation. “It is an incredible experience to see the shift in the minds of the Corps members as well as the community as these men make the transition from being seen as liabilities to becoming assets.”
The contributions of previous LCJC classes have been greatly received by the community. Their contributions include: rebuilding the home of Ms. Eartha Breshers, a local woman whose home was lost in an electrical fire; City Clean Sweep; landscaping of the Danny Jones Complex; assistance in the community clean-up of the Liberty Hill neighborhood; assembling metal buildings for the non-profit Metanoia Foundation, an organization that builds affordable housing in North Charleston; and, landscaping of the Whipper Barony neighborhood entrance.
More information on the Lowcountry Civic Justice Corps is available from the Noisette Foundation at the above contact email addresses and phone numbers, and can be accessed online at www.noisettefoundation.org.
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