Bøger af Jan Walker

Activities and supplements designed for use by offenders doing time inside prison or jail, or participating in reentry programs in community corrections.

Prison education programs save taxpayer dollars and lead to rebuilding families and communities. In Unlocking Minds in Lockup, Jan Walker shows you inmates choosing to learn, think and prepare for release to their communities as contributing adults and involved parents. She taught parenting, family relationships and social responsibility classes inside women's and men's prisons for 18 years. She developed curriculum specific to her students needs, wrote textbooks adopted by correctional educators and advocated for the rights of children of incarcerated parents. This book is the author's story of the challenges and rewards unique to teaching inside.

Meet Romar Jones, 15 1/2, basketball player with months to go before the next season and no one who cares about him since Granny died. His dad's been dead for two years. When his 9th grade language arts teacher says pay attention to the poetry unit or take a hike, Romar opts for the hike, leaves Roseburg, Oregon, and embarks on a journey to find his mother. He knows she's in prison in Washington. He shrugs on his dad's trail-guide backpack, and sets out, heading first to the coast to leave some of Granny's ashes. Within minutes of first chasing waves on the ocean beach, he encounters a derelict man he dubs Meth Mouth. Five days after leaving school he stops at Vesta's by the Sea near Yachats. Could have been good luck. Could have been Granny steered him there and had a hand in all that happened after.

They've heard it said, these walls, that walls have ears. They've heard the prayers of thanks for their lack of tongues. Foolish are those who trust the silence, for the walls hold onto memories. They know more than smoke and wine; they know where the body lies. Beth Marasich and her cousin Dani Manette Marasich, both just turning 15, are about as different as their hometowns-Old Town Tacoma and Tiburon California. Put them together for the summer following their fisherman grandfather's death, and watch an Old Town History Lesson unfold. There're rumors of a buried body, bets being placed over who fathered the baby their Aunt Sonja's carrying, money missing from the family fishing business and wine disappearing from the Marasich cellar. Beth's a wholesome girl, into the local salmon fishing scene, playing premier-league soccer, and maintaining her position as favorite grandchild with their grandmother. Dani has an eating disorder, thanks to her fashion designer mother who feeds her supplements for weight control. She wants to get out of modeling and into documentary film making. Old Town's a perfect setting, but Dani will need Beth's help, and Beth's not exactly on board with that.

Designed for beginners, Art Matters challenges the reader to experience art as a way to build a personal, creative skill set that will benefit them regardless of what career field they pursue.

This book introduces students and practitioners to psychological knowledge and understanding for clinical contexts, with emphasis on enhancing care.

This book is aimed at those studying and working in the field of health care, including nurses and the professions allied to medicine, who have little prior knowledge of statistics but for whom critical review of research is an essential skill.