NAPANOCH, NEW YORK (USA) – Ulster Correctional Facility, a male medium security prison located in Napanoch, New York will join institutions, organizations, and individuals in 86 nations in observing International Men’s Day (http://www.usainternationalmensday.blog spot.com) on Monday, 19 November 2018 under the theme, “Renewing Our Commitment To Men And Boys . . . Building A Better World For Everyone” courtesy of the International Men’s Day “Healing And Repatriation” Initiative. Mr. Carry Greaves, the National Chair for the International Men’s Day “Healing And Repatriation” Initiative, will conduct the International Men’s Day observance at the Ulster Correctional Facility. Upon learning that Incarcerated Men were not observing International Men’s Day, the United States International Men’s Day Team created the “Repatriation and Healing” Initiative which moved, for the first time in the history of the observance of International Men’s Day in the United States, Incarcerated Men into the International Men’s Day equation.
The inaugural observance of International Men’s Day in an American correctional institution occurred in 2012 at the Clinton Correctional Facility located in Dannemora, New York. Since that time, under Mr. Greaves’ leadership, International Men’s Day has been observed in numerous correctional facilities in New York. Observance of International Men’s Day orchestrated by Mr. Greaves through the International Men’s Day “Healing And Repatriation” Initiative have taken the form of atonement programs, mentoring sessions, and solutions-based workshops and discussions that explore a plethora of issues which include, but are not limited, to reintegration into society, education, the causative factors of crime, violence, and incarceration, and reducing crime and violence in society.
So what is the International Men’s Day “Healing and Repatriation” Initiative all about?
It is about providing approximately 2,500,000 souls in the United States who are incarcerated with an opportunity to participate in a global event which encourages them to engage in critical thinking about issues that affect them, their families and loved ones, and the communities in which they have lived and will return to. It is about helping them to see themselves as “part of a whole”. It is one of the many “first steps” that must be taken to heal and “reconnect” — spiritually, psychologically, and emotionally — approximately 600,000 souls who are released from American prisons every year.
For further information about the International Men’s Day “Healing And Repatriation Initiative”, contact the USA International Men’s Day Team by sending an e-mail to: [email protected].
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Diane A. Sears is the United States Coordinator for 2013 International Men’s Day (https://sites.google.com/a/imd-global.org/international-mens-day/); Chair of the USA 2012-2022 International Men’s Day Ten Year Plan Committee; and a member of the International Men’s Day Coordination Committee where she represents the United States. In her role as a member of the University Council for Akamai University’s Fatherhood and Men’s Studies Program (www.akamaiuniversity.us) which is located in Hilo, Hawaii, Sears advises the President of Akamai University on Fatherhood issues and assists him in the enhancement of the institution’s Fatherhood and Men’s Studies Program. She is also a member of the National Affinity Network for The Boys’ Initiative (www.theboysinitiative.org) which is headquartered in Washington, D.C.
Diane A. Sears is the Editor/Author of a book on Fatherhood and Men’s Issues – IN SEARCH OF FATHERHOOD® -- TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES (www.amazon.com); the Managing Editor of a quarterly international male parenting journal —IN SEARCH OF FATHERHOOD® -- which moderates a Global Dialogue on Fatherhood and is distributed in Australia, Italy, Trinidad and Tobago, Norway, South Africa, Ghana, Canada, Botswana, Jamaica, and the United States; and the creator and moderator of IN SEARCH OF FATHERHOOD®’s blog at http://globalfatherhooddialogue. blogspot.com.
