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The Carrier Pigeon Post (CPP) provides the kind of hope that changes lives among arguably the most neglected and abandoned in American society—those who have experienced incarceration. CPP enters the crushing loneliness of the cell to tell those dwelling there that they are not alone.
The Carrier Pigeon Post interrupts the destiny of doom that governs the aftermath of poor decisions, failure, abuse, trauma, deprivation, and isolation. CPP capitalizes on the power of story to foster hope, self-confidence, cultural competency, and inclusion.
The Carrier Pigeon Post enables those who experience incarceration to exercise self-agency to imagine alternative futures and rewrite the script of their lives, resulting in desistance from crime and post-prison physical, psychological, and social flourishing. CPP is the good news that a prison sentence doesn’t have to be a life sentence.
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The Carrier Pigeon Post begins with the individual and is a decided and focused attempt to address the disparity between those who possess a cultural literacy and those who do not.
CPP is easy to distribute, overcoming issues of accessibility
CPP overcomes the economics of reluctance
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CPP’s architecture as print, small, portable, personal, private overcomes the limiting challenges of incarceration life
CPP is written to a 6th grade level, overcoming the lack of academic formation
The Carrier Pigeon Post complements other interventions that help those incarcerated. With hope, CPP supports the work of religious organizations to foster faith. Through literacy, CPP serves as an onramp for traditional education (GED, vocational, post-secondary). Because CPP explicitly strengthens the self, CPP supports efforts to improve mental health.
CPP believes cultural literacy empowers social confidence as well as cultural competency.
The Carrier Pigeon Post is a small thing. Little. Seemingly inconsequential. But great things almost always begin as small things. And CPP believes in how the small can work the impossible. It seems foolish to believe that a simple 8 pages of small narratives about paintings, sculpture, professional photography, global historic landmarks, language, celebrities, athletes, political figures, literature, historical events, multicultural folktales, even finance, economics, and science, can empower, inspire hope, and foster creativity.
But that is exactly what CPP does. Miracles are found in the strangest of places—or maybe not so strange, as this is what the arts have been doing all along.
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