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Juanita Edrington-Grant, M.Min.

Juanita Grant is the Founder and CEO of Christian Recovery Aftercare Ministry, Inc. She overseers all programs and administrative functions.

Upon my release from incarceration after serving over 7 years in the State Correctional Institution at Muncy, I gave my life to God in 1992, while I was in a Halfway House. I gave my life to God in Shiloh Church of God in Christ, and started working in Prison Ministry in 1995, under the leadership and guidance of my spiritual mother – Mother Thelma O. Wright. Mother Wright is Founder of the Society of Volunteer Women Ministries (SVWM) and has been providing services in the prison for the past 35 years. In 1999, Mother Wright inspired me to coordinate weekly aftercare sessions by conducting drug/alcohol spiritual support groups. These groups were conducted to provide an environment for women and men offenders to have an opportunity receive assistance with their addiction and/or personal issues and needs. Mother Wright continued to birth this ministry in me, and I began to feel a greater need for aftercare services. I began to use my business mind and my own experience with drug addiction and prison, to learn what was required to be effective in these types of services for the target population of ex-offenders, and the incarcerated. I quickly learned that many of these same individuals suffered from addiction issues and a lack of quality pre-release and re-entry services. I began researching and attending faith-based workshops offered by President Bush’s White House Faith-based Initiative.

In 2001, I began writing my vision on the services I desired to provide, to individuals whom I consider to be my peer (ex-offenders and addicts). In 2002, I began to formulate an organization and God gave me the name, "Christian Recovery Aftercare Ministry" (CRAM).

WHO IS JUANITA GRANT

I am a child of God, and also identify myself as a "Peer Professional" as the result of my background relative to addiction and incarceration. My success is credited to God, who I serve with all my heart. I praise and honor God, for the tremendous change in my life, as well as the direction that my life continues to take.

I also identify my life as that of the "energizer bunny"…I keep going, and going, and going…helping my peer population of offenders and those struggling with addiction. By providing these services, I am truly fulfilling God’s word: "For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me"… Matthew 25:35-36

Following is a sequential of my life --- from addiction and incarceration to being blessed with success—only through the grace and mercy of God:

 

 

WORKSHOP PRESENTER

Widener School of Law Panelist (Re-entry Summit-Best Practices) - September 13, 2011

Keynote Speaker:  Martin Luther King Family Life Center of Lebanon, PA - 2011 Annual Banquet

Presenter/Speaker: National Career Development Association - 2009 Conference: Defender/Offender Workforce Development - Workshop Presenter – Funds for Nonprofits Serving Ex-offenders

Presenter/Speaker: American Correctional Association - 2008 Winter Conference: Workshop Presenter – My Sister’s Keeper

Workshop Presenter: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Jurisdiction 88th & 89th State Convocations for the Church of God in Christ: 2008 & 2009

Keynote Speaker: Thresholds in Delaware County: 2009 Annual Dinner

Presenter/Speaker State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon - 2009 Annual Day of Responsibility

 

NON-PROFIT CONSULTING SERVICES

(Assists with developing and writing program descriptions, vision and mission statements, articles of incorporations, bylaws, 501(c)(3) applications and grant writing)

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