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	<description>Giving Women Offenders a Chance for Change Since 1975</description>
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		<title>New Life Skill Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please visit again as we add new entries into our Life Skill Blog
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		<title>A Successful Fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sbaugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SISTA/SISTER
November, 2009
This fall was once again a success for SISTA. We had a full enrollment for each class. I was able to co-facilitate along with Jaceita and then start a class of my own at Atkins House. I look forward to enrolling more women from the community to participate in SISTA.
SISTA was originally created to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Can Do Anything I Can Dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 14:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Dorm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SISTAÂ 
In May 2009, SISTA Sisters&#8217; (Sisters Informing Sisters about Topics on Aids) continues to further educate and empower choices of women about HIV/AIDS based upon the SISTA Assertiveness model.Â  By the third session, patterns developed for our current group and there was trust and bonding among our participants.Â  Like the previous month, the women reinforced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunny Days &#8211; April 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunny Days
April, 2009
Sunny Days is a support group held at Atkins House for women who are HIV Positive.Â  This group is in compliance with our mission to provide information, skill development and ongoing support to help women offenders lead law-abiding, productive and responsible lives-free of crime, drugs and alcohol.Â 
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This women&#8217;s support group for HIV+ women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Continuing Quest</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Dorm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SISTAÂ 
In April 2009, SISTA Sisters&#8217; (Sisters Informing Sisters about Topics on Aids) quest continued.Â  A new experience captured co- facilitator, Jaceita Chilton-Walker and my attention. For the first time, the dominant cultural makeup of the group&#8217;s women was African-Jamaican descent.Â  This experience was refreshing, informative, yet challenging.Â  Jaceita and I realized quickly that being of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Like a Lion&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Dorm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SISTAÂ 
March, 2009Â  Like March that comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, our new SISTA (Sisters Informing Sisters on the Topics about AIDS), Sisters group finished the month of March with a graduation.Â  Choices to assert themselves, concerning who, where, when and what in sexual situations was a hot topic of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winning Small Battles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Dorm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SISTA/Sister
February, 2009
February reminds me that winter is often gentle, as new buds make their way to the surface to feel the sun&#8217;s rays.Â  So it is with SISTA, Sisters Informing Sisters about Topics on AIDS.Â  A key session on personal values in the SISTA Project is to tell the women in York County Prison, their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Year&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Dorm</dc:creator>
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SISTA Sisters
January, 2009Â 


SISTA Sisters, (Sisters Informing Sisters on Topics about AIDS) continued to provide the tools Sisters of every color need to make informed choices to prevent the transmission of HIV.Â  Instructing women about how to effectively and consistently use condoms, along with encouraging their partnerâ€™s involvement in participating in safer sexual practices helped our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Group Begins Their Journey&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Dorm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SISTA SistersÂ 
October, 2008Â 
October was filled with joy, gratitude, anxiety and humility.Â  A group of women graduated from SISTA Sisters (Sisters Informing Sisters on Topics about AIDS), andÂ a new group of women began their â€œquest to explore their valuesâ€™ and beliefsâ€™ influence and effects of ethnicity and/or culture upon their sexual choices and behaviors.Â Â 
A momentous occasion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HIV/AIP &#8211; July 31, 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaceita Walker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday July 31 2008
YDC Shelter Side
Today a few more of the youths had a chance to come back to the Atkins House. There were new faces in this group. There was one female in the group. We had one of the residents and an Atkins House client come speak with the teens today. This was [...]]]></description>
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