Fresh Start Workshop

JP–Fresh Start is a free eight component program that addresses the need for change. Change is often desired because of unemployment or underemployment, extreme poverty, past mistakes, trauma, or other misfortunes.

The eight components of Fresh Start recognize the unique needs of participants and has successfully led many to the transformation and rehabilitation necessary to make a “Fresh Start.”

The JP-Fresh Start workshop provides qualified citizens a variety of life-skills benefits to successfully achieve change. The change that leaves destructive past issues behind, and change that leads to a positive future. 

The benefits students obtain include:

  • Strengths of a good character

  • Developing positive relationships

  • Good communication skills

  • Addiction counseling

  • Coping with trauma

  • Dealing with anxieties and depression

  • Positive thinking and decision making

  • Parenting skills

  • Family restoration 

  • Financial planning

  • Law Enforcement relations

  • OSF HealthCare Employment Counseling

  • Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT)

The volunteers are all from the greater Chicago area, and are subject matter experts in his or her respective fields --each with a passion for helping citizens be successful with a “Fresh Start”.

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Required documents for entrants:

  • Social Security Card

  • State ID

  • Proof of Education