A LITTLE ABOUT OUR FOUNDER, NANCY MORAIS:
Nancy was born in the small French town
of Waterville, Maine. She was the second born of six
children, and lived there until she was ten years old and relocated with her
family to Waterbury, CT. There she met and married her long time
sweetheart Valmond "Val" Morais of New Brunswick
Canada.
In 1974 she, her husband, and small son Marc, moved to Florida where they still reside to date.
Nancy became involved in the community through various community projects and has served on the Civil Trial Board for Pinellas Park, Florida.
Nancy's goals have been,
and continue to be to help those less fortunate, and she has reached out over
the years to families throughout the state and now throughout the nation in
hopes of making a difference.
In 1993 she started a grass roots organization called
"Friends," and reached out to the men and women incarcerated within
the county jail. Soon the organization grew and reached out beyond the
boundaries of the county and she advanced her organization to reaching out to
those detained in Florida
Prisons. This new venture reached out into many areas including legislative
battles to protect human dignity of the incarcerated as well as protecting
their civil rights.
Nancy founded the Florida Justice Program when she realized that everyone deserved a second chance, and that sex offenders were not given the opportunity. She felt that everyone deserved the right to prove themselves, and looked beyond the crime to the actual person. With that foundation, the Florida Justice Transitions Program was born.
