Cecelia Kouma Executive Director. Mabelle Reynoso Teaching Artist

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2 Cecelia Kouma Executive Director Mabelle Reynoso Teaching Artist

3 Mission To advance literacy, creativity, communication, and empathy by empowering individuals to voice their stories through theatre.

4 Schools

5 Foster Care Juvenile Hall Seniors Immigrants Military Incarcerated

6 WHY THEATRE? EXPLORES HUMAN BEHAVIOR TEACHES US ABOUT OURSELVES AND OTHERS

7 TO WRITE A PLAY, ONE MUST Identify the character s want Examine back-story Practice problem-solving Examine lessons learned Decide the ending

8 THROUGH THIS, WE Understand motivations Discover connections Reclaim our stories Learn alternative behaviors Shape our futures

9 COMMUNITY OF SUPPORT Improve communication skills Expand emotional literacy Develop empathy Build a community of acceptance

10 GROUP EXERCISES Involve everyone Take us out of comfort zone Practice social interaction Are FUN!

11 WARM UP EXERCISES Zip, Zap, Zop A-ooga Share something we wouldn t guess by looking at you Join me if

12 WHY FOCUS ON ADDICTION?

13 A SAMPLE 10-MINUTE PLAY TOOL STORY By Tyler C. & Larry H. Playwrights at East Mesa Reentry Facility

14 CHARACTERS & ACTORS M.C. Hammer Cortez Johnson Klein Screwdriver Albert Park WD-40.. Nick Fox

15 SAY San Diego U.S. Attorney s Office DO SOMETHING ABOUT METH

16 Office of U.S. Attorney Southern District of California Cindy Cipriani Outreach Director

17 METHAMPHETAMINE AND THE SOUTHWEST BORDER June 2016 Cindy Cipriani, Outreach Director Southern District of California

18 Meth Labs of the 1980s 18

19 Mexican Super Labs

20 Chemicals Used to Make Meth 20

21 Troubling Increases Violence by Methamphetamine Traffickers Use of Minor to Import Methamphetamine Heinous Acts of Violence by Methamphetamine Users

22 Table 1. Preliminary Methamphetamine Strike Force 2018 Report Card Indicator Total Meth-related Deaths Death rate per 100,000 population Emergency Dept. Discharges for Amphetamines 8,116 10,254 12,595 13,209 Rate per 100,000 population ED Use Rate per 100,000 ED Visits ,260 1,469 1,539 Not Available Until Meth Primary Drug of Choice 4,820 4,991 4,564 4,689 4,911 Percent of All Public Drug Treatment Admits 34% 37% 36% 37% 37% 4. Positive Meth Tests Adults Arrestees 43% 45% 49% 56% 56% Juvenile Arrestees 10% 13% 8% 14% 11% 5. Lab Cleanup/Seizure County Cleanup DEA/NTF Seizures Number of Misdemeanor/Felony Arrests for Meth Sales and Possession 6,644 6,734 6,849 8,428 9, Availability Measures "Easy to get" 83% 90% 90% 86% 90% Price per Ounce $400-$1,200 $400-$1,200 $350-$600 $250-$450 $175-$250 Meth Seizures at Border POE 5,729 kg 5,862 kg 8,103 kg 8,706 kg 13,831 kg 8. Hotline Contacts

23 What are we missing? Seasoned prosecutors and full collaboration w/ dedicated law enforcement partners Seizing more meth and prosecuting more cases than ever before But despite these efforts, the consequences are increasing We can t incarcerate our way out of the meth problem

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25 Outreach

26 Prevention Anti-Smuggling Program: targets High School age youth U.S. Attorney & Defense Counsel Partnership targeting young adults Visiting community colleges and faith-based groups Communicating the lifelong collateral consequences of felony conviction

27 Creative Prevention Harnessing the power of live theatre to convey meth s consequences Partnership SAY San Diego Playwrights Project U.S. Attorney s Office McAlister Institute San Diego County Probation Department

28 Other People s Kids By Mabelle Reynoso A Play about the Impact of Meth

29 Patty, a single mother, worries which Ivey league her daughter Mackenzie will attend. Other People s Kids

30 Gaby, a teen who works with Aaron at the salon, has done time in juvenile hall and is pregnant. Her boyfriend Jesse loves her and wants to take care of her. He has had brushes with the law as well.

31 Patty s daughter, Mackenzie, struggles with meth addiction, lured in by Jesse. She befriends Sammy, a boy who lives in a meth house with his mom when he s not on the streets.

32 Patty grapples with the struggles of helping her daughter. Aaron offers wise counsel revealing his own history with meth.

33 Jesse loses control in his struggle with meth addiction and becomes dangerous to Gaby. He ends up in prison, where he writes to Gaby asking for forgiveness. She keeps her distance for the sake of her baby, but tucks his letter away for a possible future connection.

34 Sammy accepts Aaron s offer of a haircut, as he prepares to move in with his grandmother.

35 RESPONSES TO OPK Stakeholders Students Our Playwrights at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility

36 PROCESS OF CREATING THE MEN S PLAY Mapped journey of addiction Individual writing prompts Ensemble movement work Pieced writing onto map Read, discussed, revised

37 The men perform the play inside Donovan.

38 LIVE PERFORMANCE Finding Our Way A Play about the Journey of Addiction Written by Donovan Playwrights TAPED PERFORMANCE FROM SDSU

39 From Plot Point: Descending into Addiction

40 From Prompt: I AM Heroin Speaks

41 From Prompt: How I Wish You d See Me.

42 From Prompt: What I d Like to Change

43 TAKE AWAYS Addiction is a disease. Maintenance is constant. We re trying. Don t give up on us. Love us unconditionally.

44 Program Participant Robert Kennedy We re not just sitting here writing plays and having a good time and having fun, even though we do that too. We have a great time. But it s probably one of the most therapeutic things I ve ever done in my life. It s an environment where, look at all these different ethnic groups, different people, different personalities, different attitudes, but somehow or another during this process it all came together in the end when we worked together as a group and we re like a family now.

45 (The newspapers) always show you the worst of the worst They don t show you, hey, this guy who was molested and raped and beat(en) his whole life and had a substance abuse problem, went and stole some steaks to sell to the drug connection for drugs, so he could get out of his problems. They don t show you stuff like that. I want them to see that we re not all monsters, that we are people.

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