What is the Center for Peace? The Center for Peace is a multi-faceted branch of Perpetual Help Home: It's a business that advances the work and life skills of PHH residents while providing mediation training in the community and facilitating our outreach programs. As a micro-enterprise, it: provides on the job training for PHH residents; allows residents to gain skills in running a business; and improves participating residents' job marketability to increase long-term financial independence. As a source of mediation services for community, it offers: information and referrals for dispute resolution; mediation and conflict resolution training; and education of mediation. As the outreach arm for PHH residents to give back to community, it includes: a criminal justice professional thank you project; the Night to Light outreach to show women on the streets that there is hope for a better life; Letters from Home; Crime Victim Support Circles; Circle Solutions, restorative justice circles used to address truancy and dropouts. "Light in the Darkness: Stories of Hope," a booklet written by the women of Perpetual Help Home to encourage families of people who are in jail by showing them that people can turn their lives around. For more information, contact: Center for Peace P.O. Box 4305 Victoria, TX 77903 cfp@perpetualhelphome.org Phone: 361-575-2249 Fax: 361-575-1323

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