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Reducing criminogenic risk factors : John Byrne Prison Fellowship

John Byrne is the Director of Curriculum Development and Implementation for Prison Fellowship Ministries. He has 25 years of experience working in the area of in-prison programming and prison reentry. For 14 years, he was the Director of Prison Fellowship’s InnerChange Freedom Initiative programs in Kansas and Minnesota. He is a graduate of Fuller Seminary and is currently completing his doctoral work at Denver Seminary in the area of developing and measuring Christian prison programming and the potential impact of faith-based programming on recidivism and antisocial thinking and behavior.

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Helping the Fatherless find hope: Leo Bryant MBA, LPC

Leo Bryant’s inspiration and motivation to do what he does comes from the little town he was raised in in Southwest Florida by the name of Immokalee. With a population of less than 5,000 people and heavily populated by immigrant migrant workers he witnessed and encountered a unique blend of cultures and work ethics. In addition, being raised by a hard working single mother and grandmother, it became evident to Leo at an early age that nobody just gives you anything in life. He witnessed his mother work two and three shifts daily for years, as well as be mistreated by friends, family, and the church community, in addition to his grandmother working just as hard for years to help make ends meet. As Leo matured being the oldest of 8 children, he was naturally forced to grow up at an early age and do whatever it took to assist his parents in feeding their family and learned what it meant to lead by example in school, in life, and on the athletic fields.

…Present day Leo works feverishly to establish a counseling practice that works to serve as a light in the darkness for individuals regardless of their race, gender, socio-economic status, and culture that will teach and guide individuals to overcoming diagnosed and un-diagnosed mental health challenges as well as getting past rough spots through their personal and professional lives.

Speaking as a father of two beautiful sons, co-parent & partner to a remarkable woman, and son and brother to an awesome family Leo challenges you to step outside your box and embrace change welcome knowledge, love, and wisdom into your life.

LeoBryant MBA, LPC

http://www.bryantcounselingservicesllc.com/

http://fatherlessingeorgia.org/

Dragons to Butterflies Book Trailer

Learn more about Dragons to Butterflies and Johnnie’s writing of the book by watching the book trailer …

FACE-ing Mental Illness with Johnnie Calloway

From dragon to butterfly, turning a painful past into a meaningful present

He was 5 when they brought him into the hospital room where his beloved 28-year-old mother lay dying of cancer. Asked for a goodbye kiss, Johnnie Calloway took one look at the woman he barely recognized and turned his back. When he got home, his father walloped him for his recalcitrance.

SMART Recovery: Practical Advice from Thomas Horvath, PhD., ABPP

Tom Horvath joins Kristin Sunanta Walker for a discussion about his panel presentation at The Evolution of Addiction conference in Februrary 2017, Los Angeles CA. Tom is a Past President of the Society on Addiction Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA) and a Fellow of the APA. He is author of Sex, Drugs, Gambling & Chocolate: A Workbook for Overcoming Addictions, and owner of Practical Recovery, an addiction treatment facility in San Diego. He was one of the founders of SMART Recovery (in 1994) and was president for 20 years. SMART is an international, non-profit network of free, self-empowering, science-based mutual help groups, face-to-face or online, for abstaining from any substance or activity addiction.

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Dragons to Butterflies: The Metamorphosis of a Man with Author Johnnie Calloway

Johnnie Calloway’s first episode on Mental Health News Radio. He is an author of several books including Dragons to Butterflies. He grew up in a small town in Kentucky, with the population at around 11,000. His mother passed when he was only five, leaving him to grow up with an angry, alcoholic, sexually confused father.

Johnnie was born into a reputation that he never wanted but was obligated to live up to. Still, Johnnie always wanted to be the “good guy.” The conflict between his personal desire and his sense of obligation to his dad’s/family’s reputation created a great torment that was oddly accompanied with an insatiable yearning to learn.

Eventually, Johnnie became a seeker of truth. And has now devoted himself to sharing what his seeking has taught him with others. He has written several books including Taming the Dragon, Dragons to Butterflies: The Metamorphosis of a Man, The Bridge, and is currently working on, Within the Chrysalis, It’s an Inside Job.