Victoria's Living describes jail outreach, trauma-informed services and planned mammogram access for detention staff and inmates

Victoria's Living, an international ministry with local activity in Greenville, told the Pitt County Board of Commissioners on March 10 that it provides weekly outreach at the Pitt County Detention Center and offers trauma-informed resources to people incarcerated there and to corrections staff.

Presenter Christie Overton Johnson described the group’s work in the county, including weekly SHARP (Sheriff's Heroin Addiction Recovery Program) sessions, trauma-informed materials on tablets inside the detention center and partnerships with reentry and addiction-recovery groups. She said the program has also run events described in the presentation as the “Revival of Hope” and has connected people to addiction recovery and reentry services.

Overton Johnson said the organization provides faith-based mentorship, digital access to trauma-informed care and recreational activities for staff to address correctional-staff trauma. She said Victoria's Living had worked with the sheriff’s office and local partners and credited SHARP grant funding for enabling some services. “People that God loves, people that, didn't have the same upbringing or opportunities that I may have had, and what a privilege it is to get to go in and to take the lessons that I got to learn... I get to go and help people get up in life,” Overton Johnson said.

She also described an upcoming partnership to bring a mobile mammogram unit to the Pitt County Detention Center so that female officers and incarcerated women would have access to free mammograms; she said the visit was expected “either July or August.” The presentation closed with the speaker thanking the sheriff’s office and noting there was no action requested of the board that evening.

The commissioners received the update; no vote or funding request was recorded in the provided transcript excerpt.