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Marilyn Gambrell
Founder: No More Victims
 Marilyn Gambrell Contact Information
Phone: 713-807-8287
Website: http://www.nmvi.info/
Email: nmvi@aol.com
By Mail: 9680 Mesa Drive, Houston, TX 77078
Biography
Marilyn Gambrell is the founder of “ No More Victims,” a program for children of incarcerated parents in M.B. Smiley High School. A former parole officer and administrator for the state of Texas, Gambrell was galvanized to action after witnessing first hand the trauma that parental incarceration inflicted on children’s lives. Since the program’s inception in 2000, hundreds of kids have taken control of their lives under her leadership and mentorship. Gambrell is also the author of a series of books entitled Cherish the Child Within, a curriculum used by educators, professionals, and social workers entitled Child Within On Fire, and has recently completed a series of coloring books entitled My Feelings Are Real. She was portrayed by Jami Gertz in the Lifetime movie Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story. On Living Smart, Marilyn Gambrell will share with us how “No More Victims” breaks the cycle of violence and the struggles and joys of helping these adolescents find a brighter future.
“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Related Websites
- Warm 2 Kids, Inc.
https://secure2.convio.net/pegras/Desktop/Resource%20Lists%20Season%202/www.warm2kids.com
617-254-WARM (9276)
- National Incarcerated Parents and Families Network
http://www.incarceratedparents.org/
717-671-7231
- The Andrew Glover Youth Program
http://www.agyp.com/
212-349-6381
Organizations
- The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents
www.e-ccip.org/
626-449-2470
- At-Risk
https://secure2.convio.net/pegras/Desktop/Resource%20Lists%20Season%202/www.at-risk.org
888-680-6100
- Aid to Inmate Mothers
https://secure2.convio.net/pegras/Desktop/Resource%20Lists%20Season%202/www.inmatemoms.org
800-679-0246
- Parent Help
https://secure2.convio.net/pegras/Desktop/Resource%20Lists%20Season%202/www.parenthelpcenter.org
800-688-8706
Books & Publications
- Just Me: What Your Child Wants You to Know about Parenting
- Jackie Dryden
- Make a Difference
- Henry W. Foster with Alice Greenwood
- Lives on the Edge: Single Mothers and their Children in the other America
- Valerie Polakow.
- Loving through Bars: Children with Parents in Prison
- Cynthia Martone.
- All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated
- Nell Bernstein.
Lifetime Movie Network
www.lifetimetv.com/movies/originals/fightingodds.php
- Can Children of Convicts Learn Not to be Like Their Parents? by Caroline Kleiner
http://www.usnewsclassroom.com/issue/020429/ideas/22prisons.htm
- When Mom’s Behind Bars by the Pittsburg Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06127/688177-51.stm
- Bureau of Justice Special Report: Incarcerated Parents and their Children
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/iptc.pdf
Quotes
“No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.” -- Emma Goldman
"The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." -- Victor Hugo
"Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy; Even love unreturned has its rainbow" -- Eaton Stannard Barret
"Love is not something you feel. It's something you do." -- David Wilkerson
"The only love worthy of a name is unconditional." -- John Powell
“One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.” -- David Borenstein
“No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.” -- Emma Goldman
“The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.” --Vera Brittain
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