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Reentry Coordinators and Providers
A New Direction 4 Life, Inc. (formerly Life After Prison Ministries)
Description
Serving all of Arkansas, we assist the State achieve its Reentry goals by developing comprehensive, multifaceted mentoring and transition programs at facilities that utilize a unique inside-outside service approach to reentry.
We assist the returning citizens locate and secure appropriate transitional services, as well as food. clothing, shelter. We employ a comprehensive mentoring service that is linked to employment and social services to provide a holistic wrap-around approach to reentry.
A New Direction is a precept-driven approach to establishing a new normal for troubled adults and a successful normal for the aspiring life of teens. In the approach, mentors trained in intuitive questioning share specific precepts, knowledge, targeted skills, practical information, and a new perspective to foster the personal and professional growth of protégés.
How does the approach differ from programs? Programs focus on changing behaviors and actions – as is seen in drug rehab and alcoholic recovery. The AND approach, put into action by using our 116 lesson facilitator guide and AND personalized training, focuses on exploring one’s beliefs and subsequent worldview to change one’s perspective on life, which in turn gives way to replacing thinking errors and improving attitudes. The outcome is a remarkable transformation of behaviors and actions, no longer addictive, criminogenic or otherwise socially destructive.
Does it work? We have an 85/15 rule. Anecdotally, over the past 4 years, 85% of proteges (students) who chose to drop out of the relationship with their mentors within 120 days re-offended, while of those who chose to remain in the relationship with our mentors for 120 or more days,only 15% re-offended..
We assist the returning citizens locate and secure appropriate transitional services, as well as food. clothing, shelter. We employ a comprehensive mentoring service that is linked to employment and social services to provide a holistic wrap-around approach to reentry.
A New Direction is a precept-driven approach to establishing a new normal for troubled adults and a successful normal for the aspiring life of teens. In the approach, mentors trained in intuitive questioning share specific precepts, knowledge, targeted skills, practical information, and a new perspective to foster the personal and professional growth of protégés.
How does the approach differ from programs? Programs focus on changing behaviors and actions – as is seen in drug rehab and alcoholic recovery. The AND approach, put into action by using our 116 lesson facilitator guide and AND personalized training, focuses on exploring one’s beliefs and subsequent worldview to change one’s perspective on life, which in turn gives way to replacing thinking errors and improving attitudes. The outcome is a remarkable transformation of behaviors and actions, no longer addictive, criminogenic or otherwise socially destructive.
Does it work? We have an 85/15 rule. Anecdotally, over the past 4 years, 85% of proteges (students) who chose to drop out of the relationship with their mentors within 120 days re-offended, while of those who chose to remain in the relationship with our mentors for 120 or more days,only 15% re-offended..