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RESOLANA provides gender-sensitive programming that empowers and educates incarcerated women. Our primary objective is to provide programming that effects positive changes in the attitudes and behaviors necessary for women to establish a healthy, prosocial lifestyle. RESOLANA's programming is holistic, incorporating therapeutic, creative, pragmatic and spiritual approaches. Our extensive integration of the arts and experiential activities is distinctive and highly effective in engaging women with traumatic backgrounds and diverse learning styles. Our program focuses on the core issues of addiction and trauma, helping women gain self-awareness and break old, destructive patterns. Unless these issues are addressed, women have little chance of living a full and productive life and other programming designed to rehabilitate them is likely to be ineffective. RESOLANA's programming is divided into five categories: mental health, creativity, life skills, wellness and twelve-step recovery. Mental health classes foster self-awareness, emotional literacy, healthy interpersonal relationships, coping skills and recovery. Central to this programming is the Seeking Safety model (an evidence-based curriculum for women with histories of substance abuse and trauma), our Grace and Grit modular curriculum (with topics like Recovery Thinking or Healthy Relationships), and the weekly Survivors class facilitated by therapists from the Family Place. In an environment that is sensory deprived, intimidating to self-expression and limited in regards to physical activity, creativity workshops focused on music, dance, art, writing, storytelling or Playback drama offer incarcerated women an ultimate form of freedom. The arts also build self-awareness, self-esteem and many transferrable life skills. Life skills classes help inmates develop practical know-how that will enhance their reintegration into the everyday world. Program offerings include: financial literacy, job readiness, anger management and parenting skills. Classes such as yoga, meditation, and 5Rythms Moving Meditation teach mind-body practices and impart skills that foster mindfulness, centering and peace even in the chaotic prison environment. Our wellness programming also educates participants about health issues including HIV/AIDS, STDs, nutrition and self-care. The overwhelming majority of RESOLANA participants identify themselves as grappling with addiction(s) of some kind. We take special pride in the fact that a former RESOLANA participant recruited and organized the team that brings weekly AA meetings to our classroom. RESOLANA actively seeks to connect women to long term resources that can support their successful reintegration into their families and communities after their release. As we settle into our new program at Dallas County Jail, we are working on plans to implement an assessment and case management component which can address the needs of women who are released back into the community without any type of supervision. RESOLANA  -  PO Box #225175  -  Dallas, Texas 75222  -  USA