Warden David Ballard from Mount Olive Correctional Complex presented CAMC Women and Children’s Hospital with rocking chairs and stuffed animals designed and created by inmates working in the Mount Olive arts and crafts program. Children can sit in the rocking chairs while reading books or playing games. The wooden chairs also double as puzzles. Pull out the key in the back of the chair and children can take the chairs apart and reassemble them.
Inmates also created a plaque honoring the CAMC Family Resource Center for its advocacy work against domestic violence. The plaque is designed to hold brochures related to safety planning and domestic violence.
All of the materials for the chairs, stuffed animals and plaque were donated by the West Virginia Division of Corrections, Correctional Industries and Mount Olive Correctional Complex’s arts and crafts program.
Pricture: Denise Burgess, CAMC Family Resource Center director and David Ballard, Mount Olive warden.
Left, L-R: Dawn Schoolcraft, CAMC Women and Children’s Hospital associate administrator; Sherrill Snyder, Mount Olive mental health director; David Ballard, Mount Olive warden; Reitha Hennesey, Mount Olive arts and crafts program supervisor; Cheryl Chandler, Mount Olive executive assistant.
