Other pets helping lab mixes or unheard of trainer berkshire and restorative justice for crime victims. The federal Substance Abuse and Mental Services Administration defines recovery as a process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential. Montana Women's Prison inmates define recovery and reentry more personally: We strive for positive change, personal growth and accountability recovery. We embrace healthy relationships, and ourselves as we re-enter our communities as strong, respectful, responsible women. The state-run prison's operation utilizes a recovery reentry model as part of the process for preparing women for reentry into their communities. Programs that are available to the women are medical and dental services, mental health, chemical dependency, educational, work and parenting. More than 90 percent of all inmates at the Women's Prison are involved educational, vocational and recovery reentry programmings. The prison strives to promote child-parent bonding and development of parenting skills preparation for family reunification. Special family Kids' Day events occur once a month under the supervision of parenting staff to promote positive relationships. The prison's educational programs include classes to obtain high school-equivalency diplomas, college preparation classes, and courses to learn computer, personal and job-related skills. partnership with the prison, correctional enterprises offer inmates vocational training opportunities through the prison industries program. Industries such as garment and apparel print-screening, direct-printing, design work and embroidery, as well as assembling hygiene kits for prisoners. The prison paws program was started 2004. It is a canine training program which allows inmates opportunity to learn new skills and improve self-esteem while socializing canines, and teaching them basic manners the canines are better community members. A garden project, launched 2012, has enhanced the nutritional variety available to inmates and when abundance of produce is available donations are made to the community food bank. The women who work the garden and greenhouse can earn their master gardener certification addition to life-skills and technical on-the-job training greenhouse operations. The programs offered by the prison are enhanced by community partnerships and the large number of volunteers who donate time to bring -based, physical wellbeing prevention, substance abuse treatment and education, healthy relationships, cognitive behavioral strategies and life skills, creative arts programming, and victim awareness programs and activities. Victims who participate restorative justice programs such as a victim awareness panel often experience healing; and it strengthens the inmate's accountability and understanding of the harm they created through their crime while promoting a social bond to the community. These programs encourage change inmates and provide ties to community, while allowing them to give back a positive and productive way through interactions and community service projects. The Billings Area Reentry Task Force is a collaborative partnership made up of community stakeholders; the Montana Department of Labor, Montana State University Billings, Montana Department of Corrections, other government entities, and community-based organizations and other interested local parties who promote the removal of barriers which impede successful offender re-entry. This holistic approach starts at the point of contact with the criminal justice system focusing on employment, relationships and family, health services, alcohol and other drug treatment, and housing needs during inmate's transition from prison to the community. Montana Women's Prison 701 South 27th Street Billings MT 59101 Phone: 247 Fax: 247 Chaplain: 247. Started dog ads often catch the attention of upland bird and waterfowl hunters. Whether they're looking for a new canine hunting companion or just comparing their own present pointer, retriever, or flusher to what's advertised, wingshooters who read these ads are often surprised at the high prices of trained gun dogs. And, they're always mystified at the definition of a started dog that's being offered for sale. ‘How can any gun dog sometimes only a little over a year old be worth $1 to $2?' is a question I sometimes hear from people calling response to our occasional ads for started Labradors, said Tom Dokken, a full-time dog trainer and breeder of Labrador retrievers at his Oak Ridge Kennels Northfield, Minnesota. answer to this question is pretty standard. I tell them that our typical started retriever is a fully functional hunting dog that has been trained to retrieve ducks and geese from land or water. And, our started Labs also hunt for, flush, and fetch any upland gamebirds such as quail, grouse, and pheasants, Dokken said. addition, these dogs have been trained to come whoa, and sit on voice commands or whistle signals. Likewise, they take some basic hand signals when retrieving. And, of course, these dogs have all been socialized around other dogs and with people, are broke to gunfire, and be steady to shot a waterfowl blind or a field-hunting situation, Dokken added. Our started dogs also know how to kennel up, be comfortable with staying and traveling a dog crate, and be calm and collected a duck boat or field blind–all important details for making the dog's company a pleasant and valuable experience on any kind of hunting trip. And all of them can also become good house dogs, Dokken said. Some of our started retrievers are field-trial dogs that have been dropped from the trialing program