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Teaching a trade and improving a life

As funding permits, we try to send graduates of our Drug and Alcohol program to receive vocational training at one of several centers around town. Giving these men and women the skills that will allow them to re-enter society, hold a job, and giving them the opportunity to give back to those who have given them a second chance to have a better life.

We also try to take advantage of our volunteers who have indicated they are willing to donate their professional skills and/or services to impart their knowledge to our program graduates.

Giving these men a valuable skill set that will help them set off on their new life as productive members of society is what this program is all about.

Once one of our men graduates from the program, we do not push them out into the world as some sort of test of their hard-won sobriety. Typically they move out to the Eagle's Nest Ranch where they learn additional skills that help them re-acclimate to a normal life.

In addition to providing their professional services, some of our volunteers provide valuable training to both our staff and program graduates.
We have an ongoing relationship with these men, and when our experience tells us that they are ready to cope with the outside world and all of the influences that affected them so in the past, we take steps towards getting them employed, both by providing this vocational training, and reaching out to our network of companies who have employed program graduates in the past.
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