Summary of Courses in Re-entry

Powerful Communication and Conflict Management
How to Make Money and Make Money Work for You

Our workshops employ a hands-on, highly interactive discovery approach.   Participants completing each module receive a certificate and are eligible for a letter of recommendation for employment.  Below is a brief outline of the material we cover in each of the modules:

Module 1- Powerful Communication and Conflict Resolution (8 sessions -16 hours)

• How to make and follow through on a commitment.
• Building belief in yourself; releasing limiting beliefs
• FAAER: a five-step process to develop a mutually beneficial solution
• Constructive venting: handling highly emotional situations with clarity and class
• How to start and maintain a dialogue using open-ended questions
• Power: how we gain it, share it and give it away

                        Distinguishing between power and victim
                        Handling power imbalances

• Solving problems by going underneath
• Handling confrontation with class

Module 2 – How to Make Money and Make Money Work for You (6 sessions - 12 hours)

• Truth and myths about money and how they influence us
• Thrift and value—how to buy things
• How to create wealth---pay yourself first

                  Comparing instruments for saving and investing
                  How to get money working to create passive, increasing income

• Banking basics: borrowing, checking accounts, and keeping track of your money
• Managing debt and understanding credit
• Loan to own—what home ownership is all about

1. Part 1 A -  Cognitive Intervention - A 6-week (32-hour) series of interactive workshops covering:

The Success Seminar (6 hours) – to create bonding and the mindset for positive change
Topics Covered

1. The power if focus
2. Boxes we create
3. Defining success
4. Active listening
5. Standards of integrity
6. Intention + Method = Result
7. Treasure mapping:  Developing pictorial long term vision

Change Your thinking to Change Your Results – Twice weekly for 2 hours/session
Topics Covered

1. Handling change
2. Commitment
3. A new way of thinking
4. Powerful communication and conflict management
5. How to make money and make money work for you
6. Role playing problems in the work-place

Concurrently students participate in a 6-week (24-hour) career readiness program covering:
Part 1B - Career Readiness
The central theme of the Job Readiness segment is that any job, no matter the skill level, has more meaning if it is the first step towards a longer term career goal.  Career Planning teaches participants the importance of vision, how to develop long term vision and, from that, to develop five-year career plan, including the first steps and the type of training needed.  Creating Wealth helps them see how to use money beyond immediate needs to become financially secure.  Problem Solving teaches participants how to set goals, estimate resource needs and develop plans to reach those goals.
                  Topics covered

1. .A Vision for You and How to Get There
2. Problem Solving – Goals, resources, and plans for your life
3. Wealth Accumulation – Part 2
4. Writing your Resume – Computers, Templates, and Email
5. Job Search Techniques – Print, internet, using the telephone
6. Presenting Yourself – Job interview, how to sell you
2. Part 2 –  Coaching Groups – Work Release -Weekly 2-hour coaching groups for support and reinforcement during work release
1. Problem-solving sessions to develop the tools for peaceful, effective communication in solving problems that come up at work
2. Staffed by volunteer facilitators
3. Part 3 – Partnership with the One-Stop Center - Assistance in obtaining document retrieval, training, employment, and other services through our partnership with the Re-entry Center
4. Part 4 – Community-based Support and Reinforcement groups for job retention – Facilitated by successful ex-offenders, and volunteers from business and the community-at large to support the men and women in employment retention