Fear for Breakfast

Fear for Breakfast is run by formerly incarcerated people and those who are passionate about helping others. We aim to bridge the gap between those who have been to prison and members of the community, fostering healing on both sides. We offer workshops run by former inmates, give practical assistance to people who just got released, and provide wound care for the homeless in Los Angeles. By engaging with our community in a positive, constructive way, we hope to promote the powerful idea that we have more in common than we have apart.

Sessions will be offered multiple times throughout the year.

Board Governance
Helps straighten the mission and policy of the board, and to assist in organizing and improving organizational board and building strong community leaders. The course will add greater structure in board governance, such as policy and procedure, financial policy, fundraising and team management.

Childhood Conditioning
Program that brings awareness to childhood conditioning, which refers to the learning and internalization of beliefs, values, and behaviors through early experiences and interactions. This shapes worldview, personality, and future behaviors. Childhood conditioning significantly influences adult behavior and emotional responses. While some conditioning is adaptive, the aspect of recognizing and re-evaluating others can foster personal growth and positive change.

Intergenerational Trauma
A program that discusses the emotional, psychological, and cultural wounds passed down from one generation to the next, often resulting from historical events, collective experiences, or systemic injustices. This type of trauma can occur when a group or community faces prolonged exposure to stress, fear, or violence, leading to lasting impacts on their worldview, behaviors, and relationships.Some common features of inter generational trauma include:
Collective memory and shared experiences: Traumatic events become embedded in a community’s collective memory, shaping their identity and influencing their perceptions.

Courses

Childhood conditioning and Intergenerational trauma: April 1

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Childhood Conditioning
Program that brings awareness to childhood conditioning, which refers to the learning and internalization of beliefs, values, and behaviors through early experiences and interactions. This shapes worldview, personality, and future behaviors. Childhood conditioning significantly influences adult behavior and emotional responses. While some conditioning is adaptive, the aspect of recognizing and re-evaluating others can foster personal growth and positive change.

Intergenerational Trauma
A program that discusses the emotional, psychological, and cultural wounds passed down from one generation to the next, often resulting from historical events, collective experiences, or systemic injustices. This type of trauma can occur when a group or community faces prolonged exposure to stress, fear, or violence, leading to lasting impacts on their worldview, behaviors, and relationships.Some common features of inter generational trauma include:
Collective memory and shared experiences: Traumatic events become embedded in a community’s collective memory, shaping their identity and influencing their perceptions.

Date & Time:

4/1/2024, 2:30-5:30 p.m.

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Childhood conditioning and Intergenerational trauma: May 31

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Childhood Conditioning
Program that brings awareness to childhood conditioning, which refers to the learning and internalization of beliefs, values, and behaviors through early experiences and interactions. This shapes worldview, personality, and future behaviors. Childhood conditioning significantly influences adult behavior and emotional responses. While some conditioning is adaptive, the aspect of recognizing and re-evaluating others can foster personal growth and positive change.

Intergenerational Trauma
A program that discusses the emotional, psychological, and cultural wounds passed down from one generation to the next, often resulting from historical events, collective experiences, or systemic injustices. This type of trauma can occur when a group or community faces prolonged exposure to stress, fear, or violence, leading to lasting impacts on their worldview, behaviors, and relationships.Some common features of inter generational trauma include:
Collective memory and shared experiences: Traumatic events become embedded in a community’s collective memory, shaping their identity and influencing their perceptions.

Date & Time:

5/31/24, 12:00–3:00 p.m.

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Childhood conditioning and Intergenerational trauma: July 26

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Childhood Conditioning
Program that brings awareness to childhood conditioning, which refers to the learning and internalization of beliefs, values, and behaviors through early experiences and interactions. This shapes worldview, personality, and future behaviors. Childhood conditioning significantly influences adult behavior and emotional responses. While some conditioning is adaptive, the aspect of recognizing and re-evaluating others can foster personal growth and positive change.

Intergenerational Trauma
A program that discusses the emotional, psychological, and cultural wounds passed down from one generation to the next, often resulting from historical events, collective experiences, or systemic injustices. This type of trauma can occur when a group or community faces prolonged exposure to stress, fear, or violence, leading to lasting impacts on their worldview, behaviors, and relationships.Some common features of inter generational trauma include:
Collective memory and shared experiences: Traumatic events become embedded in a community’s collective memory, shaping their identity and influencing their perceptions.

Date & Time:

7/26/24, 12:00-3:00 p.m.

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Childhood conditioning and Intergenerational trauma: September 27

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Childhood Conditioning
Program that brings awareness to childhood conditioning, which refers to the learning and internalization of beliefs, values, and behaviors through early experiences and interactions. This shapes worldview, personality, and future behaviors. Childhood conditioning significantly influences adult behavior and emotional responses. While some conditioning is adaptive, the aspect of recognizing and re-evaluating others can foster personal growth and positive change.

Intergenerational Trauma
A program that discusses the emotional, psychological, and cultural wounds passed down from one generation to the next, often resulting from historical events, collective experiences, or systemic injustices. This type of trauma can occur when a group or community faces prolonged exposure to stress, fear, or violence, leading to lasting impacts on their worldview, behaviors, and relationships.Some common features of inter generational trauma include:
Collective memory and shared experiences: Traumatic events become embedded in a community’s collective memory, shaping their identity and influencing their perceptions.

Date & Time:

9/27/24, 12:00-3:00 p.m.

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Childhood conditioning and Intergenerational trauma: October 25

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Childhood Conditioning
Program that brings awareness to childhood conditioning, which refers to the learning and internalization of beliefs, values, and behaviors through early experiences and interactions. This shapes worldview, personality, and future behaviors. Childhood conditioning significantly influences adult behavior and emotional responses. While some conditioning is adaptive, the aspect of recognizing and re-evaluating others can foster personal growth and positive change.

Intergenerational Trauma
A program that discusses the emotional, psychological, and cultural wounds passed down from one generation to the next, often resulting from historical events, collective experiences, or systemic injustices. This type of trauma can occur when a group or community faces prolonged exposure to stress, fear, or violence, leading to lasting impacts on their worldview, behaviors, and relationships.Some common features of inter generational trauma include:
Collective memory and shared experiences: Traumatic events become embedded in a community’s collective memory, shaping their identity and influencing their perceptions.

Date & Time:

10/25/24, 12:00-3:00 p.m.

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Childhood conditioning and Intergenerational trauma - Zoom Follow-up QAs: November 29

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Childhood Conditioning
Program that brings awareness to childhood conditioning, which refers to the learning and internalization of beliefs, values, and behaviors through early experiences and interactions. This shapes worldview, personality, and future behaviors. Childhood conditioning significantly influences adult behavior and emotional responses. While some conditioning is adaptive, the aspect of recognizing and re-evaluating others can foster personal growth and positive change.

Intergenerational Trauma
A program that discusses the emotional, psychological, and cultural wounds passed down from one generation to the next, often resulting from historical events, collective experiences, or systemic injustices. This type of trauma can occur when a group or community faces prolonged exposure to stress, fear, or violence, leading to lasting impacts on their worldview, behaviors, and relationships.Some common features of inter generational trauma include:
Collective memory and shared experiences: Traumatic events become embedded in a community’s collective memory, shaping their identity and influencing their perceptions.

Date & Time:

11/29/24, 7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

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Childhood conditioning and Intergenerational trauma - Zoom Follow-up QAs: December 13

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Childhood Conditioning
Program that brings awareness to childhood conditioning, which refers to the learning and internalization of beliefs, values, and behaviors through early experiences and interactions. This shapes worldview, personality, and future behaviors. Childhood conditioning significantly influences adult behavior and emotional responses. While some conditioning is adaptive, the aspect of recognizing and re-evaluating others can foster personal growth and positive change.

Intergenerational Trauma
A program that discusses the emotional, psychological, and cultural wounds passed down from one generation to the next, often resulting from historical events, collective experiences, or systemic injustices. This type of trauma can occur when a group or community faces prolonged exposure to stress, fear, or violence, leading to lasting impacts on their worldview, behaviors, and relationships.Some common features of inter generational trauma include:
Collective memory and shared experiences: Traumatic events become embedded in a community’s collective memory, shaping their identity and influencing their perceptions.

Date & Time:

12/13/24, 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

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Board Governance: April 29

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Board Governance
Helps straighten the mission and policy of the board, and to assist in organizing and improving organizational board and building strong community leaders. The course will add greater structure in board governance, such as policy and procedure, financial policy, fundraising and team management.

Date & Time:

4/29/24, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m

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Board Governance: June 28

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Board Governance
Helps straighten the mission and policy of the board, and to assist in organizing and improving organizational board and building strong community leaders. The course will add greater structure in board governance, such as policy and procedure, financial policy, fundraising and team management.

Date & Time:

6/28/24, 10:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.

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Board Governance: August 30

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Board Governance
Helps straighten the mission and policy of the board, and to assist in organizing and improving organizational board and building strong community leaders. The course will add greater structure in board governance, such as policy and procedure, financial policy, fundraising and team management.

Date & Time:

8/30/24, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

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Board Governance - Zoom Follow-up QAs: September 13

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Board Governance
Helps straighten the mission and policy of the board, and to assist in organizing and improving organizational board and building strong community leaders. The course will add greater structure in board governance, such as policy and procedure, financial policy, fundraising and team management.

Date & Time:

9/13/24, 7:30 p.m.- 8:30 p.m.

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Instructor: Tue Huynh

Tue Huynh is a member of the Reentry Advisory Collaborative, a selective program that helps him build a leadership position in L.A. County. As a transformed person with a criminal background, he saw the unfavorable system needed to be reconstructed holistically. It’s important to maintain the proper balance so that everyone can have an equal opportunity to succeed in life. He offers suggestions and collaborates with team members to tackle the most difficult tasks that the community is facing. Their mission is to help the system-impacted population and reduce mass incarceration. Before joining the RHAC, Tue facilitated entrepreneurship training and earned an MBA certificate from Baylor University through an organization called Defy Ventures, a company that helps people with criminal histories have a second chance to become a C.E.O. of their new life. Tue is a member of API RISE, a support network that helps the community to understand the necessity of changes to an unfair justice system that involves immigration detentions and harsh environments.

Instructor: John Doan

John Doan was born in Vietnam. At a very young age, he immigrated to the United States and lived in Orange County, California. After serving 26 years in correctional facilities, John is now a returning citizen and believes in the principles of compassion, empathy, kindness, and love.

John serves as an executive director for Fear for Breakfast. Fear for Breakfast encourages everyone to wake up each morning and face their fear for breakfasts. John’s enthusiasm and passion for giving back have driven him to create classes such as victim sensitivity, personal development, drug and gang awareness, domestic violence and emotional literacy. His mission is to help people identify the root cause of their pain and struggles for the purpose of helping them cope and move forward in a healthy way.

Instructor: Sharon Han

Sharon Han is a digital marketer and a life coach with training in psychology based coaching as well as start-up coaching for founders and executives. She worked as a Business and Career Education Coach at Santiago Canyon College. As the Program Director for Fear for Breakfast, her hope is to provide practical life coaching tools and resources for people to identify how they can be a solution to a problem and be a leader who makes people feel seen, heard, and loved.

Instructor: Raymond Sheppard

Raymond Sheppard is a Peer Support Specialist and Lead facilitator at Fear For Breakfast. He has over 30 years of incarcerated experience and recently overcame a life sentence. He is a full time student at CSULA working on his BA in Sociology. He specializes in childhood trauma and has developed his own curriculum called The Think Tank. He is also the founder of The No Matter What Club which is currently in Calipatria, Tehachapi, Chino, and San Quentin State Prisons. He believes in the motto of, “Those closest to the problem hold the solution.”

Instructor: Dianne Lin

Dianne Lin fled from Vietnam in 1975, 5 days before the capture of Saigon. She was detained in Guam at a refugee camp. She graduated from the USC’s Leventhal School of Accounting and worked many years in public and private accounting. However, incarceration proved to be the best classroom to look within and shift from denial. She postponed her board of parole hearings by a year to participate in the Amity Long-Termer Offender’s Program. This was the point she was determined to do the work, and she was found suitable to parole on her first BPH. She earned the Professional Peer Support Specialist Certificate, and was hired to work as a Peer Mentor. She currently works as a Care Coordinator for an advanced technology remote patient monitoring service. One of her passions is to advocate for youth’s mental health, to bring awareness to intergenerational trauma, childhood conditioning, and to teach healthy coping skills, an open mindset, and stress management.