Partner with us

The arrangement, plainly

If a young person is referred by a probation department, a court, a facility, a school or a partner organization, the program costs them nothing and it costs the referring agency nothing. That is true in Miami, it is true in Chicago, and it will be true in the next county.

Anybody who finds the material on their own and wants it for personal use pays for it. A church or an organization that wants to run cohorts of its own licenses it.

Those two facts are related. The people who pay are part of how the free side stays free.

Why we do not charge agencies

Not as a favour, and not as a loss leader. Three reasons, and they are practical.

• A price tag becomes a reason to say no. A referral should be a two minute decision by one officer, not a procurement conversation that takes a quarter and dies in it.
• We are funded to do this. Grants and private support pay for the work with justice-involved young people. Charging an agency for it twice would be dishonest.
• The referral is the value. Access to the young people who need this most is worth more to our mission than an invoice is.

What partnership actually means

It is not a logo swap. A partner agency gets:

• Referral in under two minutes, with contact inside two business days
• Attendance, documented hours by category and a court packet on request
• Notice at seven and fourteen days if a young person stops coming, so a violation is never the first thing you hear
• A named person to call, not a general inbox
• Every delivery track, so geography and custody are never a reason to decline a referral

What a partner does not get is anything a young person wrote in their reflection work. That is disclosed up front, every time, because the writing is where the change happens and it only happens if they believe it stays private.

Where the money does come from

Individuals who buy the course for themselves. Facilitators who certify to run cohorts. Churches and organizations that license the curriculum. County contracts, negotiated separately.

None of that touches a young person who was referred. If somebody in our programs is ever asked to pay for anything, that is a bug and we want to hear about it.

If you are not an agency

You might still belong on the free side. Churches running programs in the neighbourhoods we serve, re-entry organizations, and nonprofits already doing this work can become referral partners, which makes it free for the young people they send.

And if you want to run the 23 weeks yourself, with your own facilitators, that is a license rather than a referral relationship. It comes with the facilitator edition, training and updates, and it starts at a price built for a small church rather than a foundation.

Bringing it to your county

We are building cohorts with probation units and facilities beyond Miami and Chicago. What we need to know first is the population, the constraints, and who inside the agency actually owns the decision.

The honest version: we would rather tell you we are not the right fit than run something badly in a place we cannot support.