The Sister’s Project reaches out into the community to help women involved in prostitution and illegal drugs before they are arrested and caught up in the criminal justice system through treatment, assistance and programming to help them develop a life in compliance with the law. As a collaborative outreach effort with the Milwaukee Police Department's Third District, the Sisters Project targets neighborhoods with a high incidence of prostitution and illegal drug trade. This project aims to provide an alternative to simply moving prostitution out of neighborhoods temporarily as a quick fix by offering an alternative crime-free lifestyle through programming, education and trauma-based treatment. This ultimately improves the quality of life in the community while offering a better life for women who have been working on the streets.
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The Sisters Project Care packages are prepared for the women as a way to show them that we care about them as individuals. Any donations of health and beauty products, including hotel-sized and sample bottles, are appreciated. Contributions might include small zip-lock bags, shampoo, body lotion, toothpaste, toothbrushes, granola bars and healthy snacks, etc. Your contribution funds programs that help transform lives and build our community. |
Sisters Project
The Benedict Center partners with community prosecutors, neighborhood police, Community Partners, local business owners, schools, neighbors, area organizations, women working the streets for prostitution and drugs, a Benedict Center social worker and sister mentors. Sister mentors are women who have been in conflict with the law before, but who have excelled at the Benedict Center, stabilized their lives and now want to help other women succeed. They work alongside Benedict Center professionals to be role models and offer advice from those who have been in their shoes in the past.
The culture of our program provides an environment in which women can learn to understand and deal with the issues in their lives that brought them into conflict with the law. As they work through the program, they become more confident in their own strengths, giving them a sense of hope that keeps them in treatment for addiction, past trauma, and mental health issues.
Justice Circles
Restorative justice views crime as primarily an offense against human relationships, and secondarily a violation of law. Justice circles bring together the victim, offender and the community to reduce the harm done to all by the offender’s crime and engage the community in supporting and helping women who want to leave the life of drugs and prostitution and improve the quality of life in the neighborhood.
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