Choices for Life
Why be needy
if you can be needed?
A values-based rehabilitation program created in California prisons — and now spreading worldwide — rooted in the teaching of Rabbi Manis Friedman.
Choices for Life is the unselfish self-help program. It begins not with what an inmate needs, but what he is needed for. That single reframing — from needy to needed — is what makes the hardest ground still bloom.
970+
Inmate participants
72%
Completion rate
4
Prison facilities served
2017
Active since
Voices from the garden
"Choices for Life is making a difference in men's lives. In an industry where everyone is trying to bring about rehabilitation, Choices for Life appears to be getting the job done."
"Taking this course has been a life-changing experience. I have been searching for a purpose for a long time now. I believe now that I have purpose which in turn gives my life meaning."
"I've taken self-help groups for the past 25 years. [The] group was the most relevant, insightful group that I've ever been a part of in prison."
The Hardest Ground Still Blooms
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