GO Broken to Beautiful Foundation, the Prison Project

=         The City of Minot, with a total population of 50,118, experienced 4,557 arrests over the past three years. During 2017, the arrest rate totaled 250.21 per 10,000 residents. Of those, 134 were for violent crimes such as murder, rape, and robbery. The city of Minot also handled 1,120 arrests for property crimes during 2017. Compared to Berthod and Burlington, Minot is a more dangerous place to live.  (Infotracer.com, 2024)

=         Recidivism in the United State is an astonishing 70% within 5 years of release.  (First Step Alliance, July 14, 2021)

=         North Dakota has a 35% recidivism rate—(BJA. “State Criminal Justice Profile, North Dakota.” Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2014. bjafactsheets.iir.com)

=         North Dakota has an incarceration rate of 583 per 100,000 people (including prisons, jails, immigration detention, and juvenile justice facilities), meaning that it locks up a higher percentage of its people than almost any democratic country on earth.  (Prison Policy Initiative, North Dakota Profile, January 2024, prisonpolicy.org)

=         Each year, at least 13,000 different people are booked into local jails in North Dakota.                                                    (Prison Policy Initiative, North Dakota Profile, January 2024, prisonpolicy.org)

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Nelson Mandela said: “No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.  A nation should not get judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” 

The GO Broken to Beautiful Foundation, the Prison Project, provides training and coaching for people who are incarcerated, people who have been incarcerated, and people whose at risk behaviors are predictive of future incarceration.  These clients are assigned a trained and certified Personal Response-Ability Coach (a life coach) to walk them through our #1 International Bestselling GO Broken to Beautiful Manual: What to Do When Life Leaves You Broken. 

Our Foundation is striving to take this sacred endeavor to all jails and prisons nationwide.  Through this whole-person, spiritually grounded, 15-lesson course, clients improve in all 6 areas of life.  Clients become stronger, wiser, more resilient, much more capable, and more confident than ever before.  Their relationships improve, they are more creative in problem solving, and they become more response-able when faced with adversity, challenges--and opportunities. 

Our goal: to END GENERATIONAL abuse, addiction, crime, and indigence, and reduce recidivism.

 PLEASE:  DONATE HERE:   https://donorbox.org/help-change-the-face-of-a-nation-give-to-the-prison-project-3

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*WHAT WE DO* Habitat for Humanity Northern Lights is a nonprofit, Christian housing ministry working to eliminate poverty housing in the Minot community. Our volunteers work with Habitat partner families to build simple, affordable homes. The families purchase these homes for only the cost of construction and their mortgage payments support additional home construction. Since 1997 we have helped 13 families to become homeowners.  When not building, we also help other homeowners with Home Preservation repair projects such as building wheelchair ramps.

*HOW YOU CAN HELP* Contact our office to volunteer, no special tools or skills are required. Provide funding support, your tax deductible donation will remain in the Minot community to help your neighbors in need.

For more information, please email: minot.habitat@hotmail.com.

Kalix works with an amazing group of people, helping them identify and develop their talents and goals.  Trained staff provide individualized professional supports based on each person's need.  Kalix offers residential and job support in community settings and on-site to people with a wide variety of developmental disabilities.

Kalix offers confidential document destruction (shredding) at competitive rates.  Call (855) 909-9729 or visit www.KalixND.org/recycling to arrange for pickup or drop off of large commercial volumes.  Public drop-off dates are also scheduled occasionally.