Real Transition
What is it?
REAL Transition is a community that is focused on providing a method to individuals to improve themselves by establishing healthy connections and supporting them in developing a personal vision for success. These connections are to self, to community within, and to society, which all help to establish a new beginning. We believe connections are the basis for a meaningful life within any community. Teachers in REAL are called Peer Tutors. Many of our mentors have overcome addictions, and the cycle of incarceration. Classroom time is spent learning a new subject then working with your mentor.
Why?
One goal of FreshStart is to be able to promote real transition and assist in bringing it to incarcerated individuals, and to those released through healthy human connections, distribution of materials, program integrity and training, and to provide resources to those participants who are attending REAL Transition in order to obtain a successful life. By doing so, we believe that correctional facilities and taxpayers will see a reduction in recidivism.
How does it help?
Transition can help by providing useful information that if studied, applied, and implemented in one’s life, will aid them in their personal and physical transition towards real change. Aside from helping them transition to a better life outside incarceration, transition can help prepare them for any upcoming event they may be facing. Whether it be a board hearing, parole, employment, business advancement, education, family success, home ownership, housing, rehearing, termination, expiration, or redetermination, the transition program can better prepare them to present themselve as real, whole, and authentic.
Do you need to be a particular faith to participate?
No, everyone is welcome. Though we meet at an LDS building for now, and there is a spiritual section covered, the topics are for everyone and all are welcomed. The individuals involved have a determination to find a better way of life and are eager for someone to guide them to the path they need to travel for their personal success.
Who is Transition for?
Transition is for anyone who has a board hearing or a rehearing in the future or has received a parole, termination, wishes to better their lives, or just cannot seem to progress after incarceration. Transition can also be valuable for those who will be eligible for a redetermination. REAL Transition is successful when entire families participate.
Tiny Homes
Fresh Start Ventures Tiny Living Program
Donated by Architectural Nexus, 2020
Housing is the number one issue that many of our brothers and sisters and their families in Utah struggle with.
Tiny Homes are quickly becoming an attractive affordable option for many people. In Utah many cities are beginning to accept Tiny Homes as an accessory dwelling. The savings for homeowners to add an additional passive income onto their property is much lower than a typical basement or what is sometimes referred to as a mother in-law apartment. Tiny Home accessory dwellings in our communities are helping with the housing crunch. In addition, each FSV Tiny home purchased gives back by helping those in our community learn a trade and donates money to our mission.
How Do Tiny Homes Relate to Real Transition?
Fresh Start Ventures works with those who are in the REAL Transition program to assist with the ownership of a Tiny Home. Fresh Start Ventures has a number of options for REAL Transition participants to become a FSV Tiny Homeowner. REAL Transition participants can earn their home through means of helping others own a home. We call this sweat equity. REAL Transition participants can also earn their home through the rent to own program. The homes will be located with a mentor family, or in another state that FSV is working with cities that accept smaller homes as a single home dwelling.
FRESH START MENTOR FAMILY ADU PROGRAM
Announcing Fresh Start Ventures Mentor Family ADU Program. Fresh Start Ventures is the first program in the State of Utah to adopt this program.
Every person deserves a place of shelter. A safe place they can call home. At Fresh Start Ventures we believe that we need to connect with one another and that the key to changing one's life around is through healthy human connections. Fresh Start Ventures has created the Mentor Family ADU program. ADU stands for ‘accessory dwelling unit.’ ADUs are 500 square feet or under homes for a single person or a small family. Through volunteers and donated materials, an ADU is built for a mentor family. Participants pay a rent on a sliding scale . After a length of time participants rent is then gifted to the participant as a downpayment for their own home. The ADU is gifted to the Mentor family as a "Thank you' for participating in the program. This program is available only to those who are participants in the Fresh Start Ventures REAL Transition program.
FRESH START VENTURES TINY HOMES
This is not a trend and Tiny Homes are here to stay. A fully completed FSV Tiny Home is from $30,000-$70,000 compared to the average cost of single family home in Utah county of $250,000. Tiny Homes save owners 80% or more in energy costs. In addition; we can make your Tiny Home mobile so that those who wish to live in warmer temperatures in the winter, or travel, can take their home with them.
YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE BACK
By working together and creating a team at FSV Tiny Homes we believe that individuals have the opportunity to change form a pattern of violence, addiction, and criminal behaviors to a peaceful life that will give purpose to their community. Your purchase of a Tiny Home helps our REAL Transition participants in their own housing needs.
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