Leo

LEO Compassion Prison Project is working with the University of Notre Dame’s research team, Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO), on a multi-year study to show how our Trauma Talks program

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Trauma to Transformation

Trauma to Transformation Workshop Compassion Prison Project’s One-Day Trauma-to-Transformation Workshop begins with the Compassion Trauma Circle. Steps are taken into a large circle of participants as they respond to questions

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Logo for Trauma Talks, a video series from CPP

Trauma Talks

Trauma Talks Trauma Talks is a 16-part series designed to educate prison residents about childhood trauma, in hopes they can find resilience, learn tools to help calm their nervous systems,

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Group of men and Fritzi stepping inside the circle with arms around eachother

Compassion Trauma Circle

Similar to the circle seen in our short film Step Inside the Circle, CPP runs Zoom community circles with people dialing in from all over the world. These Circles explore

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Printed Adverse Childhood Experience survey questions

ACE Awareness Campaign

CPP’s work with prisons and communities is based on the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) study which is one of the largest investigations into childhood abuse, neglect and its

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Man holding up a letter with drawn hearts on it smiling

Letter Writing Campaign

We’ve been told by several prison residents that nothing brightens their day more than hearing their name called during mail call. We’ve also heard from letter writers on the outside

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Fritzi Horstman

Founder and Executive Director

 

Fritzi Horstman is the Founder and Executive Director of Compassion Prison Project. She is a Grammy-award winning producer for her work on “The Defiant Ones”, has been a producer and post-producer on dozens of television projects and documentaries and has directed several films. She believes it is urgent to bring humanity and compassion to those living behind bars and these acts will help transform our society. She has a Bachelor’s Degree from Vassar College.

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