The Araminta Ross Foundation's signature program, Prison to Productivity, is a trauma-informed curriculum designed to equip incarcerated individuals with six months or less on their sentence with mindfulness-based techniques and dialectical behavior skills to support successful re-entry upon release.

Through the use of research-driven approaches to behavior change, and insights from other incarcerated individuals, Prison to Productivity has been widely embraced by jail and prison staff, justice-impacted men and women, and the community.

The program also comprehensively addresses many of the issues that lead to an individual’s incarceration including the lasting impact of early childhood trauma and the legacies of intergenerational abuse, incarceration, and substance use.

The program provides participants:

Job readiness skills

Social, and emotional support

Family Reunification (healthy communication and healing injured relationships)

DBT Group practices (mindfulness/anger management)

Financial Literacy (learning the basics of managing finances through knowing the difference between wants and needs, saving, and establishing credit)

Connection to community resources, substance misuse programs, and housing

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