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Special Delivery: OK Messages Project Serving Children of Incarcerated Parents

April 14, 2016 by Valarie Budayr

Special Delivery: OK Messages Project Serving Children of Incarcerated Parents

Guest post by Cheri Fuller, Executive Director

www.okmessages.org

(See Video on Home Page of children watching their moms’ DVDs)

ok mess pr

When a four-year-old boy’s mom was put in prison, he was scared she was in a cage all day and night. Until he got the package with his mommy’s DVD and a Dr. Seuss book she read. Then he saw she was safe and not in a cage, and when he missed her he put the video in and read along—feeling like she was there with him. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Guest Posts, Special Donations Tagged With: family, OK Messages Project, Oklahoma Messages project, reading

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