By Hannah Maria Wright, Photo: Beth LaBerge/KQED, KQED, June 11, 2022
A group of women, many of them mothers, sat in a circle in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood in early April, talking about the challenges they’ve faced and victories they’ve celebrated recently. The group, called Seeking Safety — a project of the Bayview-based organization Positive Directions Equals Change — provides support for women in recovery from substance use disorder and for the formerly incarcerated.
This group is facilitated by other legal system-impacted women like Lisa Wood, who spent time locked up in the 1980s.
“A lot of us who leave our children and go to prison come from broken cycles,” she said. “We don't know how to put the pieces together and so we really need support before coming out of prison.”
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