P.R.A.Y. Foundation
📖 About Us
Parents Reaching All Youth (P.R.A.Y.) is a nonprofit organization committed to transforming the lives of at-risk youth and their families by offering mentorship, education, resources, and emotional and spiritual support.
P.R.A.Y. Foundation is a registered nonprofit organization recognized as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Transformation:
Anti-Gang - Pro-Fatherhood
The Transformation: 10-Step Anti-Gang – Pro-Fatherhood Workbook/Program
The first official workbook launched by the P.R.A.Y. (Parents Reaching All Youth) Foundation, The Transformation, is a powerful resource designed to help individuals break free from gang life and discover their purpose. This life-changing program is currently taught inside correctional facilities by trained inmate instructors.
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C.A.S.E.
Crime Accountability & Self-EvaluationA 10-step workbook for individuals who are ready to face the truth, understand the impact of their actions, take responsibility, and build a better path forward.Overall Course ObjectiveThe objective of this course is to help incarcerated individuals honestly examine their crime, take responsibility for their actions, understand the impact their choices had on victims, family, community, and self, and begin the process of personal accountability, healing, growth, and transformation. This workbook is not about making excuses, blaming others, or reliving the past for shame. It’s about facing the truth, learning from it, and making a conscious decision to become better.
R.O.M.
Reprogramming Our MindsThe P.R.A.Y. Foundation recognizes that people in underserved communities are in desperate need of hope, direction, healing, accountability, and real tools for change. Many individuals are carrying pain they have never talked about, trauma they have never healed from, choices they have never fully faced, and dreams they have pushed to the side because life has been hard.In many underserved communities, people lack potential, access, support, guidance, opportunities, and positive spaces where they can be heard, challenged, encouraged, and rebuilt from the inside out. Too many people have been labeled by their mistakes, environment, past situations, poverty, anger, or circumstances. The P.R.A.Y. Foundation believes a person’s past need not be the final word for their future. For this reason, nonprofit organizations and community leaders in Jackson, Mississippi, developed a workbook/program titled R.O.M. – Reprogramming Our Minds.Communities in Jackson are facing real challenges, including poverty, violence, trauma, broken families, crime, grief, and hopelessness. This workbook was created to help individuals in these communities become better fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, friends, neighbors, leaders, and overall better people. It is designed to help participants think more deeply, speak more clearly, make stronger choices, and begin the process of becoming the person they know they can be.
P.R.A.Y.
Inside Out Mentor Program
Becoming a P.R.A.Y. MentorOne of the most powerful ways to stay free from gang life is to reach back and help others find their way out. Your story, mistakes, and your growth can become the blueprint for someone else’s freedom.Through the P.R.A.Y. Foundation’s Inside Out Mentor Program, you have the opportunity to guide and inspire youth who are still trapped in gang culture. By becoming a P.R.A.Y. Mentor, you can send letters, share your wisdom, and speak life into young men and women who desperately need direction.When you mentor, you remind yourself daily of the reasons you left the streets behind. Helping others stay free strengthens your own commitment to change.If you want to take this step, you can write to the P.R.A.Y. Foundation and ask about becoming part of the Inside Out Program. Together, we can create a chain reaction of freedom, men and women helping the next generation break away from gangs and walk into their purpose.Remember: The voice of someone who has lived it carries more weight than a hundred lectures. Your voice could be the one that saves a life.
Instructor’s Manual -
The Transformation: Anti-Gang - Pro-Fatherhood
10-Step Workbook
The Instructor’s Manual is designed to provide facilitators with essential tools to help individuals avoid gang involvement and become responsible fathers and positive community leaders. Each step includes detailed teaching notes, discussion prompts, and guidance for conducting reflective exercises.Instructors will find practical strategies, facilitation tips, and key insights that encourage growth, self-awareness, and transformation in participants, ensuring the workbook’s lessons are delivered clearly and effectively.
The Transformation:
Anti-Gang -Pro-Fatherhood
10-Step Workbook
The workbook is designed to guide young men from gang life to becoming responsible, caring fathers and positive community leaders. Each step provides actionable advice, practical tips, and reflective exercises to foster growth, self-awareness, and transformation.
Raising Love: A Real-World Guide to Parenting Through Struggle, Faith, and Triumph
In Raising Love, Dr. Terri Lynn Bell shares her raw, unfiltered journey of parenting through adversity—from teen motherhood and financial hardship to co-parenting with an incarcerated spouse and raising four children who defied the odds. With grit, faith, and unwavering determination, she transformed pain into purpose, building a legacy of strength, love, and generational healing.
Think First!: A Teen's Activity Book for School Success & Drama-Free Choices!
An activity book designed to help teens make informed, confident decisions about their lives, education, and future. Growing up comes with countless challenges, pressures, and big decisions that can shape a teen's journey. This book is designed to show teens that, no matter what life throws their way, they always have options and opportunities to explore.
Life Without Life
The book provides an in-depth exploration of the struggles and obstacles faced while navigating life in the ghetto. More importantly, it is a testament to resilience, hope, and self-belief. It inspires readers to rise above adversity and overcome whatever life throws their way.
A Trauma-Induced Pipeline to Prison: A Look Inside the 21st Century Version of Mississippi’s Carceral Capitalism
A Trauma-Induced Pipeline to the Prison Industrial Culture exposes the harsh realities of Mississippi’s modern prison system and its deep ties to systemic racism, poverty, and generational trauma. This powerful work unpacks how laws, policies, and societal neglect create a direct pipeline from marginalized communities to incarceration, sustaining what the author calls 21st Century Carceral Capitalism.
Reclaim Your Peace: Self-Guided Journey to Mental Wellness 10-Step Workbook
The Reclaim Your Peace: David C. Ballansaw Self-Guided Journey to Mental Wellness 10-Step Workbook is a supportive resource that helps individuals explore emotional challenges, enhance mental well-being, and build resilience. Each step builds upon the last, offering practical tools to guide participants toward personal growth and a greater sense of peace.
Rebirth: A 10-Step Workbook for Women Seeking Change and Freedom from Gang Life
This empowering workbook is a personal guide for women ready to break free from gang life, incarceration, trauma, or stagnation. Inspired by the life cycle of a butterfly, Rebirth leads readers through four symbolic stages—egg (awareness), caterpillar (learning), chrysalis (inner change), and butterfly (freedom). Each step encourages healing, growth, and self-discovery, reminding every woman that no matter where her journey began, transformation is possible, and something bold, strong, and beautiful is breaking free.
P.R.A.Y Blueprint:
Islamic Version
The P.R.A.Y Blueprint addresses critical issues such as poverty, limited access to education, and inadequate support systems while fostering leadership, self-reliance, and community development. Available in Christian and Islamic versions, it is tailored to provide spiritual guidance alongside actionable steps to create a brighter future.
P.R.A.Y Blueprint:
Christian Version
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