Breakthrough the Roadblocks
Your past doesn't have to determine your future.
Helping formerly incarcerated individuals successfully return to society by providing resources, guidance, coaching, connections, and practical pathways to overcome life's roadblocks.
Returning home is only the beginning
Leaving incarceration can open the door to a new beginning—but walking through that door often comes with new challenges.
Breakthrough the Roadblocks exists to help individuals identify those barriers, find practical resources, develop a plan, and keep moving forward.
A foundation for the next chapter
Every journey forward stands on four outcomes that turn a second chance into a lasting change.
Rebuild Trust
Trust can take years to build and moments to lose. We help individuals understand how accountability, consistency, communication, and positive actions can begin rebuilding trust with family members, employers, communities—and themselves.
Regain Respect
Respect begins with how you see yourself and how you choose to move forward. Develop confidence, accountability, integrity, responsibility, and the personal characteristics necessary to build a stronger future.
Renew Relationships
Incarceration affects more than one person. We help individuals develop tools for reconnecting and strengthening relationships with spouses, children, parents, relatives, friends, mentors, and their communities.
Increase Income
A successful transition requires a pathway toward financial stability. Explore employment, career development, education, skilled trades, financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and other opportunities designed to help create sustainable income.
Practical barriers, practical pathways
Housing
Transportation
Finances
Employment
Education
Personal Development
Transitional housing, low-income assistance, family/friend housing planning and homeownership preparation.
Public transportation, bus passes, rental options, automobile purchasing, rent-to-own information and auto insurance.
Banking, budgeting, credit, investing basics, income taxes, prepaid cards and financial literacy.
Career path development, resume preparation, interview preparation, job searches, workforce programs and employer opportunities.
GED/high school diploma, college, trade schools, certifications, apprenticeships and on-the-job training.
One-on-one coaching, group coaching, mentorship, character development, integrity, accountability, goal setting and action plans.
A community working toward the same goal
A practical companion for the journey home
BREAKTHROUGH THE ROADBLOCKS — A Resource Guide for Life After Incarceration
A practical resource designed to help formerly incarcerated individuals navigate housing, transportation, finances, employment, education and personal development while working toward four outcomes: Rebuild Trust, Regain Respect, Renew Relationships and Increase Income.
Whether you're coming home yourself or walking alongside someone who is, the resource guide offers a clear starting point for every roadblock.
The roadblock is not the end of the road.
Every person's journey is different. The past cannot be changed, but the decisions made today can help shape tomorrow. Take the next step.
Life after incarceration is not the end of the story—it's an opportunity to write the next chapter.