Restorative Circles

About

Footprints to Freedom Wellness and Workforce Readiness workshop, is a six-week evidence-informed intervention designed to improve emotional wellness, workforce readiness, personal accountability, and life stability.

It integrates the Eight Dimensions of Wellness, restorative practices, trauma-informed care, emotional regulation, and workforce development.

Participants will attend one full-day session each week for six consecutive weeks from 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM (5 hours per session, 30 total program hours).

The curriculum addresses the underlying factors that often contribute to unemployment, instability, recidivism, poor decision-making, and barriers to long-term success by helping participants understand how past experiences, trauma, environment, and thinking patterns impact present-day choices.

Participants will leave the program with a personalized success plan, increased self-awareness, improved coping skills, workforce readiness competencies, and connections to supportive community resources.

Program Goals

  • Increase participant understanding of the Eight Dimensions of Wellness and their impact on personal success.

  • Improve emotional regulation and healthy coping strategies.

  • Strengthen workforce readiness and employability skills.

  • Increase participant self-efficacy, accountability, and goal-setting abilities.

  • Connect participants to supportive services that improve long-term stability.