Periods in prison
Support TPFA 4-Part Workshop Series
In conjunction with PERIOD, a global youth-fueled nonprofit, TPF has created a 4-part workshop series about period poverty and menstrual equity in U.S. correctional facilities. This groundbreaking curriculum is designed to inform learners of how period poverty uniquely impacts incarcerated women & girls using extensive research done by The Thurman Perry Foundation & PERIOD.
All workshop materials can be found below including both PDF and Microsoft Powerpoint versions of the workshop presentation and The PiP Facilitator Outline.
If you have any questions, please email info@thurmanperryfoundation.org
Periods in Prison Virtual Roundtable Replay
About Period
PERIOD. is a global youth-fueled nonprofit with over 400 youth led chapters working to eradicate period poverty and stigma through service, education, and advocacy. PERIOD. annually distributes millions of menstrual products to grassroots organizations serving their communities in need, authors stigma-busting menstrual health curriculum, and equips young leaders to advocate for menstrual equity policies such as the repeal of the tampon tax and mandating period products in public places.
About The Thurman Perry Foundation
Thurman Perry Foundation is an award winning Louisiana-based nonprofit operating nationally with a mission of offering scholarships, essential healthcare resources, and housing relief to at least 10,000 women & girls impacted by incarceration by 2030.
Founded in 2021 by formerly incarcerated woman turned epidemiologist, Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH, The Thurman Perry Foundation is named in memory of Ms. Perry’s father, U.S. Army Master Sergeant Thurman Perry Jr.
The Thurman Perry Foundation’s Girl Code initiative stands alone nationally as the only public health program for incarcerated women to promote menstrual equity and eliminate period poverty by donating organic, cotton, chlorine-free, dye-free, and fragrance-free menstrual products.
TPF’s Girl Code initiative has endorsed federal legislation to mandate the sufficient provision of menstrual products to incarcerated women and girls in state, local, and juvenile correctional facilities, and, in 2 years, has donated almost 200,000 organic menstrual products to 4,435 incarcerated women in correctional facilities throughout Louisiana, Texas, and New York state.
Founded in memory of late U.S. Army Master Sergeant Thurman Perry Jr., The Thurman Perry foundation was created by his daughter, Gabrielle Perry, MPH, to support women and girls impacted by incarceration. We are a 501c(3) nonprofit organization. EIN 86-2519876.
