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The Freedom to Choose Project
315 Meigs Road Suite A295
Santa Barbara, CA 93109
Once Choice at a Time
Leading from Within
75 women are asking for a chance to heal and transform. Let’s answer the call together.
We set out to raise $10,000 and thanks to you we did it way ahead of time. We still have two weeks left so we’re raising our sights. Our New stretch goal: $15,000 by August 7.
A group of incarcerated women at the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) asked for a program we’ve never done at this scale. For three months, twice a week, our Education and Project Coordinator, Rhonda Leland, will teach the core Freedom to Choose skills in two languages to 75 incarcerated women, 25 of whom speak only Spanish.
By Fall, they’ll be leading Freedom to Choose groups themselves.
But We Need your Help.
The grants that covered 65% of our operations were not renewed last year. We need your help to raise $10,000 to fund the expansion and growth of this program at CCWF.
Since the pandemic, the programs that supported the women at this facility have largely disappeared. And the ones still around don’t have much outside support.
We are determined to change that reality.
This is what your support makes possible.
Watch this inspirational video and learn about the impact we’re already making.
“The most groundbreaking part isn’t that we’re teaching [this program] — it’s that by Fall, they’ll be teaching it themselves.”
—Rhonda Leland, FTC Education & Project Coordinator
This is just the beginning
Getting back into CCWF took persistence, trust, and a facility willing to say yes.
What happens next depends on our collective support. With more funds, the program runs longer, reaches more women, and trains more facilitators who can lead classes on their own. These first three months are just a start. Your gift determines how far we can go.
Every donation matters. Every amount helps.
CHOOSE A LEVEL
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.”
– VIKTOR FRANKL, AUSTRIAN PSYCHIATRIST, HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR
