There’s Always Time To Change The Story
It all began with questions like these: Can people change? Can people overcome their
circumstances? Can a troubled young man, who’s become a threat to himself
and society, turn his life around 180 degrees?
We’re optimists. We believe in second chances…even third chances. So
deep down, we knew the answer was ‘yes.’ We believe there’s always
time to change the story. Negative beginnings need not result in negative endings.
A troubled childhood, an unsupportive home environment or poor choices that lead
to running with the wrong crowd…none of these should be allowed to steal
a young man’s future. But all too often, that’s exactly how it happened.
Until Flip the Script®.
Admissions Criteria
- Low Income
- City of Detroit / Wayne County Resident
- Age 16-30
- High School Diploma
- Motivated and committed to focus on positive life changes
- Must commit to an 18-week, eight (8) hour per day program
Program Contact
For more information or to enroll in this program, please contact:
Keith L. Bennett
Flip the Script Program Director
7700 Second Avenue, Fifth Floor
Detroit, Michigan 48202
Phone (313) 557-4848
Fax (313) 557-4820
E-mail KBennett@goodwilldetroit.org
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Truth To Power Re-Entry Conference
Please print this form and mail
to Goodwill Detroit Flip the Script Conference Committee, 7700 Second Avenue, Detroit,
MI 48202 or fax to 313-557-4820. If you have any questions, please call 313-557-4818
or 313-557-4828.
A Proven Alternative For Men Age 16-30
Over the past seven years, Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit has developed
and refined a tremendously effective, outcome-based mentoring and job training program
that is making a profound impact. Flip the Script® prepares men ages 16-30 who
reside in Detroit or Wayne County for non-traditional careers including the skilled
trades, building and construction industries, as well as entry level green jobs.
The program’s curriculum centers on training (or retraining) participants
in the critical areas of mathematics, reading enrichment, positive relationship
development, male responsibility, fatherhood, positive citizenship and workplace
ethics. The primary goal of the program is to enable men to become economically
self-sufficient individuals and positive heads of household.
What Community Leaders Are Saying…
“Goodwill’s Flip the Script program has been an oasis in the desert,
especially in our current economic downturn. We have proudly supported this
program, and are impressed with the major impact and success it has made and continues
to make.”
ED DEEB
President, Michigan Food and Beverage Association
“This initiative helps men regain their sense of self and social purpose which
is critical because men in need of services in a city like Detroit are often viewed
as undeserving and unwilling to act on their own behalf. Flip the Script combats
this perception by helping men get on their feet and on the right track. This not
only equips the men for life, but also allows others to stop seeing them as problems
in the community and start recognizing them as human resources for making themselves,
their families, and their social environments much better off.”
ALFORD YOUNG, JR. Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
Sociology and Center for Afroamerican and African Studies University
of Michigan
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