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FFLIC Travel

Help support the Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children while booking your next trip!!! FFLIC is proud to give you another way to help improve the lives of those affected by the juvenile justice system while saving you money simultaneously! FFLIC now has its own travel site – which finds the most affordable airfares, car rental fees, and hotel stays while raising us money!!! Our site is powered by Travelocity and there is no additional cost to you. So next time you travel, visit us at FFLIC Travel and book a trip. For every dollar you spend, FFLIC receives a portion – and its not because we’ve added it to your bill! It’s the corporation that gives a percentage of their earnings. So plan a trip today through FFLIC Travel

FFLIC MEETS MOVIE STARS

By: Gina Womack

Hosted by the North Star Fund and actors Patricia Clarkson and David Strathairn on February 5, 2007, New York City was the scene for a fundraiser for FFLIC and Safe Streets/Strong Communities. I was so excited to be in New York and be among people that care about our issues, kids and families as well as what is going on in New Orleans. Grace Bauer was humble and articulate as she told her story of what brought her to FFLIC and so many other families.

"LIFT UPS, NOT LOCK UPS"
In the rebuilding of New Orleans
A donor briefing and fundraising to aid grassroots efforts to rebuild the gulf region

Join actors Patricia Clarkson and David Strathairn, and North Star Fund donors David Rosenmiller and Merry Tucker in support of Familes and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children (FFLIC) and Safe Streets - Strong Communities.

To see an article about this event, please follow this link:

www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-gross/nola-in-nyc-north-star-_b_40578.html

FFLIC and Safe Streets are still accepting donations for this event. If you would like to make a donation, please click this link and in the memo state: FFLIC NYC Fundraisier.

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Stopping The Madness

By: Grace Bauer

The Beginning

In 1986, I met a boy that would someday go to prison. Of course, way back then I did not know that. But what if I had? Could I have done anything to change it? Was there a way to stop it? By the year 2000, folks that knew a lot more than I, did know he would go to prison. They published a report that said with the high drop out rate and low economic opportunities it was inevitable that kids like this boy would end up in jail and folks that could afford to invest in stocks should put their money into building the prisons to get ready for them. The United States went on a prison-building spree. The nation has tripled its prison population since 1980; opening the equivalent of 3 or more new 500 bed prisons every week.