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Who are you becoming
Programs, mentorship, and practical tools for young men and young adults ready to break old patterns, discover their purpose, and build a better future.
Three ways in
A young person's circumstances decide which door they walk through, not whether they get served. Start inside the facility, finish online or at the center, without restarting.
Door 01, In facility
Chaplaincy, mentoring, sports, and facilitated groups at Miami-Dade Regional JDC and Broward Regional JDC, on a weekly rhythm, before release is even on the calendar.
Door 02, Online
Video lessons, reflection work, and a quiz each week. Self-paced at any hour, or a live Zoom cohort with a mentor when travel is the barrier.
Door 03, In community
Group session, mentorship, gym time, service projects, and family engagement at our own building on 67th Street. Cohorts roll, anyone can join on any Tuesday.
Mentoring and cognitive behavioral work from three, then SPARK Arts until eight, at the Firehouse Community Arts Center. Run by our partner FCAC, a certified Cook County detention alternative.
Geography, transportation, and custody status should never be the reason a young person goes unserved.
The course library
Formation for men at different points in the same road. Manhood, fatherhood, money and purpose, plus the 23-week core for young people who come to us through a court or a school.
Enrolling nowThe 23-week core. Takes both gun-offender and general delinquency referrals, and runs identically in the facility, online, and at the center.
Open nowA manhood formation curriculum. Every man is hunting something, and when purpose gets lost the chase turns into money, attention or escape. Six movements, from confronting yourself to going back for other men.
Open nowFor young men raising children while still working out who they are. Trauma, presence, breaking what got handed down, and the right to start again.
Open nowTwelve lessons on encounters with law enforcement, for a young person and the adult raising them. What is actually happening, how you are read, the first ten seconds, and what the law says against what is wise at eleven at night. It does not promise to keep anybody safe, and it says so on the first page.
Banking, budgeting, credit, and earning. Built as a standalone course as well as phase VI of the core curriculum.
How it works
A probation officer, a school, a partner, or a parent starts it. From there the process is the same every time, fixed, documented, and visible to whoever is responsible for them.
A DJJ designee refers the youth and tells them and their guardian to expect our call.
Within two business days. We reach the family, confirm consent, and set expectations in writing.
In person, Zoom cohort, or self-paced online, decided by geography, custody status, and whether they have a working phone.
Curriculum sessions, mentorship, and approved service projects. Hours accrue as they are earned.
Participation, milestones, and documented hours to their probation officer. If they disengage, we say so when it happens.
Graduation prep, documented hours, and a mentor relationship that continues past week 23.
Community service hours
Documented per participant against attendance, participation, and completion standards aligned to referral requirements, not symbolic service.
Attendance recorded per session, in person, on Zoom, or inside the facility.
Written work completed each week and reviewed by a facilitator.
Real projects with partner organizations, scheduled and supervised.
Sustained engagement with an assigned mentor and program compliance.
The building is open. The mentors are in the room. Week one starts the week you do.
Where we meet
The program runs the same way everywhere it runs. A weekly room, a gym, a mentor who is there next week too. New sites open where there is a probation unit or a facility ready to work with us.
Miami, Florida
361 NW 67th Street, Miami, FL 33150
Just off I-95. Two full court gyms, classrooms, consultation rooms and family space. Tuesdays: group session, mentorship, gym time and service projects.
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Chicago, Illinois
2111 S Hamlin Ave, Chicago, IL 60623
North Lawndale, in a converted firehouse covered in neighborhood murals. Same 23 weeks, run with partners who have been in that community for years.
Get directions See the program there →Opening next
We are building cohorts with probation units and facilities in Cook County, Harris County and beyond. If you run a unit, a facility or a center and you want this in your city, that conversation starts with a phone call.
Bring it to your county
Manhood formation
When purpose gets lost, the chase turns into money, attention, pleasure or escape. Six modules on finding out what you have actually been chasing.
No referral, no officer, no waiting list. Free if anybody referred you, if you are under eighteen, or if you ask.
Common questions
Who this is for
Referred by a court, sent by a school, brought by a parent, or walked in on their own. What they have in common is that somebody still thinks there is time.
Every young person keeps the same curriculum whether they start it in a facility, on a phone, or in a room with fifteen other people.
Start here
Five ways people arrive at this program. Pick the one that sounds like you and it takes you straight to what you need, not to a general page you have to read through.
Not sure which one
One page that asks two questions and sends you where you need to go. If it is the wrong door, nothing is lost and nothing is submitted.
