Pathways to Success

The core of Rebuild's program is the job that provides daily structure and self-sufficiency to people in recovery.

A job at Rebuild has the same expectations that any job would have. We hold student-employees accountable for punctuality and performance. During their time at Rebuild, they learn to become valuable employees by being employees in our enterprises. A job at Rebuild helps student's build a job history and work reference, and learn valuable skills.

II. A Plan for Moving Forward

One of the most critical pieces of each person's success at Rebuild is his or her personal desire to grow and succeed. Each student creates an individual Forward Motion plan. This plan details key goals and commitments in the interlinked areas of Sobriety, Self-sufficiency and Service, and is used to assess personal progress on an ongoing basis.

III. A workplace culture steeped in sobriety and wellness

Student employees find in Rebuild a safe, sober and secure community at the most potentially vulnerable time in their sobriety and re-entry journey. At the core of this community experience is a workplace culture infused with recovery. Our recovery philosophy is closely aligned with the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.

We refresh, renew and sustain this culture by continually promoting upwards, from within. Thus, all of our student-employees are supervised by program graduates and recovering people. This allows us to constantly re-generate a community of, by and for recovering people.

IV. A "Tool-box" of resources to re-enter society

The employment opportunity we provide is supported by services that help people rapidly move through Rebuild to permanent employment elsewhere. These include:

> Transition-to-work classes that equip trainees with job-seeking and job-keeping skills;

> Formalized individual coaching focused on recovery, reentry, conflict resolution and more;

> Student-led recovery-based meetings for reflection, community and recognition;

> Basic needs assistance including a subsidized lunch program, referral to outside resources, vouchers for purchase of gently-used essentials, and an emergency fund;

> A job search coaching program in which job searchers receive weekly coaching for internet job search, resume-creation and job-hunting skills, and up to four hours of paid time off each week to interview with potential employers.

V. Connections to the greater community

We are part of a broader movement to address patterns of injustice, racism and power which contribute to the cycle that affects our students. We believe that the aggregation of our voice with others who strive for systemic change can shift the underlying structures which currently create the demand for our work.