We are thankful to the Office of Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas for including TFH in the planning of the 24th Annual Empowerment Congress Summit. The Summit will be Saturday, January 16th, 2016 at USC. It’s another example of how TFH residents through the personal transformation required to gain suitability for parole, are now […]
Sacramento Trip, November, 2015
On October 20th Sister Teresa and our new development director traveled to Sacramento to attend the monthly Parole Board hearing and several other meetings. It was a day filled with blessings. She took the red eye at 6 a.m. from LAX. Upon arriving at the Parole Board, Philip, an ex-resident who now advocates for lifers […]
A New Garden for Our Residents
On Friday, October 23rd, about twenty people convened at The Francisco Homes to join Richard and Erika from Alma Backyard Farms to plant the first seedlings in our community garden. It was a beautiful day on a number of levels. Residents Hugh, Loi, Steven, Tony and many others put in hundreds of hours over the […]