

Developing Restored Citizens







In the beginning we speak of our clients as “Returning Citizens” because they were incarcerated for a period, and they are now transitioning back to society to begin rebuilding their lives. Although we hope and pray they have been restored, we don’t know until they have been properly replanted in this unrestricted environment and given a meaningful second chance and opportunity to thrive.
Developing Restored Citizens entails individual and group mentoring that focuses on six main components:
1. Awakenings: Designed to help residents find meaning from their experiences, confronting thoughts and habits that contribute to current beliefs and behaviors.
2. Building Community: Helps residents to build healthy relationships, enhances communications, breaks down barriers, and provides opportunities to learn to resolve conflicts in constructive and meaningful ways and to draw from Faith solutions to life’s trials and conflicts.
3. Character Reformation: Designed to help residents to become conscientious about what they read, hear, think, who they associate with, and how to cultivate the power of change through an internal locus of control, which is a process of consistently and naturally making good choices in their best , personal and spiritual interest. Residents also learn how thoughts produce actions, actions become habits, and habits form character, and character determines destiny.
4. Trauma Healing/Awareness: Designed to help residents understand the nature and operation of old wounds, adverse childhood experiences, and self-destructive behavior. Focuses on restoring self-awareness of the core Self so that the journey of maturing into an emotionally healthy and productive person may resume.
5. Victim Awareness: Designed to provide residents with the opportunity to reflect on the effects of various crimes, on victims, their families, and their communities.
6. Work Readiness: Designed to help residents assess their employability status in terms of positive and negative work histories (such as job performance, absenteeism, unstable work record, having been fired, inability to earn sufficient salary to live on, having difficulty with co-workers and/or superiors), and educational deficiencies (including intelligence, learning disabilities, and vocational skills).
The designation of Restored Citizen is not just assigned to an individual because he/she is released from prison. It is earned from what we do after leaving prison. FAITH Foundation works diligently to put each client on a path of Restored Citizenship.
