One Step Away

A 10-Step educational series for inmates offers a powerful, unique message about the social difficulties of re-entry, along with a message of how to overcome those barriers coming from someone with real life experience. One Step Away is not your typical program but instead concentrates on why inmates with a "victim-stance" have the most damaging and self-defeating mindset for anyone returning to society from jail or prison. Having been through it himself, Michael DeLeon's profound message throughout the course shares his vulnerable ACE (Adverse Childhood Experience) experiences that literally create a paradigm shift, where dealing with trauma becomes a sign of strength rather than a perceived sign of weakness. This course shares a message of how to overcome re-entry barriers and provides thought-provoking material on the success principles of re-entry along with insight on how to use them.