Center for Transformation mentors walk with you as begin your journey toward personal change and reintegration into the community.
Join Us!
CFT mentoring group meets weekly in downtown Kalamazoo. The group is completely voluntary and no reservation is required. Come as you are! Bus tokens and light snacks provided.
Tuesday
11:00AM-12:30PM
Trinity Lutheran Church, 504 S Westnedge, Ave. Kalamazoo, MI
Mentoring
What is mentoring?
As you begin to rebuild your life—seeking housing, employment, and healthy relationships— CFT will help you in finding resources and agencies that will assist you. We offer encouragement and guidance as you work to successfully re-establish a productive and satisfying life.
You may face disappointments and frustrations, but you need not face them alone. Your mentor will be there to listen and help you make informed and positive choices. Our goal is to support your transition with friendship that is both honest and understanding. Our aim is not to “do” for you, but to support your best possible decisions and actions leading to the successful life you are seeking.
To be transformed is to be changed and, at its best, to be renewed and recreated. This possibility is open to all persons, regardless of their past, if they truly and earnestly seek it. Many things can interfere and prevent it, just as many others can contribute to it.
Center for Transformation mentors will walk with you as you begin your journey toward personal change and reintegration into the community.
Volunteer mentors are matched with returning citizens and provide one-on-one support and guidance as formerly incarcerated individuals work to rebuild their lives.
How mentoring works
CFT offers both individual and group mentoring. Whether you are more comfortable in a larger group or with an individual or team of mentors committing to support you, mentors help you to establish and reach your goals including supporting you as you access mental health services, achieve educational goals, establish stable housing and employment, make personal spiritual connections, maintain freedom from substance abuse, repair social and family relationships, and gain access to reliable transportation.
Group Mentoring
Center for Transformation mentors are here to help. The role of CFT mentors support and advocate for previously incarcerated individuals during the re-entry process and even for years afterward. as they re-build their lives and achieve their goals.
The rewards of a good mentoring relationship can be mutually gratifying for both the coach and the client. Our mentors care enough to walk beside you through the often difficult transition from incarceration to the community: this is truly about walking together.
Individual Mentoring
Mentoring works when two or more individuals develop a trusting relationship and a bond that provides consistent, nonjudgmental support and guidance. Those mentored through Center for Transformation are provided with much more than non-judgmental support and guidance: they become a member of a larger family.