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Give the Gift of a Fresh Start
Now through December 9, your support helps create life-changing breakthroughs for those working to rebuild.
At Breakthrough, transformation happens when individuals have the tools, encouragement, and opportunities to reclaim their lives. Your generosity helps participants earn certifications, find meaningful employment, and reconnect with their families. Together, we can help restore dignity.
When you give, you’re not just donating, you’re investing in futures filled with purpose, stability, and second chances.
Your gift today becomes someone’s future breakthrough.
To inspire positive lifelong transformation and empower people in the criminal legal system through our in-facility educational programs and re-entry care management services. We are dedicated to breaking barriers, cultivating innovation, accepting accountability, building skills, and forging meaningful connections that allow people navigating the criminal legal system to achieve their highest potential.
At our core, we are catalysts for radical transformation, driven by a commitment to enable desistance and break the cycle of systemic barriers. We prioritize a person-focused approach, advocating for access to opportunities that empower individuals to thrive. Our secret sauce lies in our ability to ignite change from the inside out, leveraging every moment to prepare people for a full and safe life.
Values:
➡️ Responsibility – We never back down from the difficult or ignore mistakes.
➡️ Inclusivity – We accept people as they are — all humans are worthy of humanity.
➡️ Optimism – We have a radical hope for tomorrow.
➡️ Empathy – Our empathy is audacious, courageous, bold, and relentless. We are open to ideas that challenge our worldview.
We believe that humans are more than their past. We believe in the power of change. Through compassion, connection, and community, we rebuild people’s lives and ultimately help them reintegrate into society—all while challenging outdated perceptions to reform how our country defines criminal justice.
Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado prides itself in transforming the lives of people with criminal histories and the community’s perception of the incarcerated population. Our holistic approach includes an in-facility career education program, community engagement, reentry support, a fair opportunity hiring program, and criminal justice advocacy initiatives.
We believe in humans, and in our shared humanity because we know that every person deserves to be seen, heard, and challenged to rise above their past to break through to a better tomorrow.
Our Program
A successful reentry begins inside correctional facilities and is dependent upon a community ready to foster a productive return. Breakthrough takes a holistic approach to community and person, and our in-facility program focuses on character development, job readiness, reentry planning, and the entrepreneurial mindset, providing an opportunity for holistic growth.
We walk alongside our participants from the inside out through our four program offerings: The Challenge, The Transformation, The Return, and The Exemplar.
The Challenge
Our innovative 32-week (8-month) in facility program focusing on character development, job readiness, reentry planning, and the entrepreneurial mindset. The Challenge builds upon itself from week to week, designed to facilitate a stable trajectory of growth.
The Transformation
Our in-facility alumni program allows opportunities for continued personal and professional development, facilitating the Breakthrough program on the inside, and providing guidance to current participants as they begin their transformational journey.
The Return
We welcome our people home and prioritize their stability in the community by helping them obtain and maintain stable employment while helping them to fill skill gaps as they embark on their chosen career path. We also connect them to trusted community partners specializing in food, housing, transportation, health care, mental health/substance abuse treatment, clothing, safety, and personal identification.
The Exemplar
This is the final stage of our participants journey once they have found stability. Our in-community alumni program provides case management services and facilitates further career development, personal growth, and entrepreneurial guidance, with access to our network of Fair Opportunity Employers.
Organization name
Breakthrough
other names
Breakthrough, Defy Ventures Colorado
2018
Tax id (EIN)
83-0636337
Category
Public & Societal Benefit
Organization Size
Large Organization
Address
1766 W 46th Ave P.O. Box #: 11146Denver County, CO, US
Denver, CO, US
Colorado Springs, CO, US