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Title
Bellamy Creek Program
Collaborators
Aaron Yore-VanOosterhout, Ph.D., Co-Director, Bellamy Creek
Program
Jacquelynn Doyon-Martin, Ph.D., Co-Director, Bellamy
Creek Program
Abstract of Work
The Bellamy Creek Program (BCP) offers a Bachelor's Degree in Public and Nonprofit Administration to GVSU students incarcerated at the Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility in Ionia, Michigan. While this program builds on a long history of "education behind bars" by GVSU faculty, it is the first to enroll incarcerated students at the university and offer them a fully accredited undergraduate degree. Thanks to the collaboration of dozens of staff and faculty across GVSU, the BCP will offer students -- who primarily come from underserved communities -- a comprehensive, trauma-informed range of services to assist them during and after the program, at no cost to them. Classes will begin in fall 2024.
Booth Number
35
Commitment Alignment(s)
A Culture of Educational Equity
Location
DeVos Building A
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