Jeffery Dollison, former Harlem Globetrotter, talked to teens at Passages Academy-Horizon about his book, Grow 2 Be a Pro, and taught basketball tricks.

Intelligent.com provides information for people with prior convictions to learn about going to college. It includes various grants and scholarships, advocacy programs and resources for ex-offenders, and other vital information to help them earn a degree.

Link to guide: https://www.intelligent.com/education-and-career-guide-after-incarceration

This month Literacy for Incarcerated Teens/LIT received a much appreciated $30,000 donation from The Bookworm Box, a non-profit organization based in Sulphur Springs, TX.

The Bookworm Box is a one-of-a-kind monthly book subscription service founded by the Texas-born, best-selling YA author Colleen Hoover.

Hoover’s mission in starting The Bookworm Box was […]

Another year, another National Poetry Month celebrated! Students enjoyed playing with magnetic poetry tiles so much last year that we brought them out again, and thanks to LIT’s generosity, we were able to gift a set to each NSP and NSD house.
In class we shared Reynolds’ Ain’t Burned […]

Humanitarian, activist, veteran Black Panther, professor, director, playwright, filmmaker, author, poet,  screenwriter Jamal Joseph visited with students at Belmont yesterday.  It was impossible not to feel moved by his brilliant storytelling, hard-won insight, and deep compassion.  Two groups of placement students who have been studying the Black Panther Party for the […]

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“It was an honor and a delight to get to spend an hour with the students at Brentwood discussing scary stories. They asked terrific questions, performed dramatic readings, and even shared some of their own work. It’s always a treat for an author to get to meet readers and have real […]

Galinsky Coaching is thrilled to be hosting author (and boxer) Sarah Deming, author of “Gravity” at Brentwood Girls Secure Center this week where Sarah will be talking about and taking questions about her incredible book: Gravity.

Big special thanks for Literacy for Incarcerated Teens for supporting the young ladies through this […]

“Literacy is storytelling. It is how we engage and interact with one another. Communicating our thoughts and feelings towards one another and in all aspects of feelings within that space allows our greatest form of bond and that form of love in fact imprisons our minds to a level of freedom. […]