(By Sheri Trusty, Seneca County Sheriff’s Office Public Relations Coordinator)

The Seneca County Jail operates with a mission to offer programs that can help inmates improve their lives and prevent recidivism, but those programs require funding.

At the end of October, one of the jail’s most powerful programs, its Nurturing Parenting Program, will end due to a lack of funding. The program impacts incarcerated parents and their children, as well as their children’s future.

The Nurturing Parenting Program is an accredited, evidence-based child abuse and prevention program for fathers and mothers that was instituted in the jail in February and is taught by certified instructor, Jami Hill.

Hill is a CARES Coordinator with Seneca County Family and Children First Council (FCFC). Seneca County

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