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X-WR-CALDESC:Join us for the CASA/GAL Book Club! We are meeting at Mustard 
 Seed Cafe (Highland Square location) to socialize and enjoy heavy appetize
 rs from 5:00pm-5:30pm and discuss the book from 5:30pm-7:00pm. Book Club i
 s intended for CASA/GAL volunteers and like minded guests so please spread
  the word and invite a friend.\n\nThe CASA/GAL Program of Summit County bo
 ok club provides an opportunity for CASA/GAL volunteers to connect and dis
 cuss topics related to child advocacy. The book club will enhance personal
  growth in addition to building comradery through group discussions.  \n\n
 Halfway Home: Race\, Punishment\, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration 
 by Reuben Jonathan Miller\n\nMiller’s book addresses the struggles of form
 er prisoners who return to society and are often denied their right to vot
 e\, rejected by employers and landlords and left impoverished.\n\nMiller s
 hared he became interested in writing his book and started researching mas
 s incarceration after serving as a volunteer chaplain for Cook County Jail
 \, and after learning that his own father and brother were incarcerated. M
 iller also talked about the effects mass incarceration has on generations 
 of children and families in the child welfare system.\n\n“I can’t tell you
  how important family reunification services are. One in nine black childr
 en have a parent who’s been to prison\; 2.7 million children have an incar
 cerated parent right now\,” said Miller. “What family reunification servic
 es tries to do is try to prepare the child and the mother\, father\, paren
 t\, to reconnect and bridge the divide that’s caused by the absence that t
 he prison enforces.”
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for the CASA/GAL Book Club! We are meeting at Mustard S
 eed Cafe (Highland Square location) to socialize and enjoy heavy appetizer
 s from 5:00pm-5:30pm and discuss the book from 5:30pm-7:00pm. Book Club is
  intended for CASA/GAL volunteers and like minded guests so please spread 
 the word and invite a friend.\n\nThe CASA/GAL Program of Summit County boo
 k club provides an opportunity for CASA/GAL volunteers to connect and disc
 uss topics related to child advocacy. The book club will enhance personal 
 growth in addition to building comradery through group discussions.  \n\nH
 alfway Home: Race\, Punishment\, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration b
 y Reuben Jonathan Miller\n\nMiller’s book addresses the struggles of forme
 r prisoners who return to society and are often denied their right to vote
 \, rejected by employers and landlords and left impoverished.\n\nMiller sh
 ared he became interested in writing his book and started researching mass
  incarceration after serving as a volunteer chaplain for Cook County Jail\
 , and after learning that his own father and brother were incarcerated. Mi
 ller also talked about the effects mass incarceration has on generations o
 f children and families in the child welfare system.\n\n“I can’t tell you 
 how important family reunification services are. One in nine black childre
 n have a parent who’s been to prison\; 2.7 million children have an incarc
 erated parent right now\,” said Miller. “What family reunification service
 s tries to do is try to prepare the child and the mother\, father\, parent
 \, to reconnect and bridge the divide that’s caused by the absence that th
 e prison enforces.”
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250521T170000
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LOCATION:Mustard Seed Cafe (Highland Squre) 867 W. Market Street Akron\, OH
  44303
SUMMARY:BOOK CLUB: Halfway Home
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