Curriculum
Six phases. Practical learning. Individual progress.
A year-long pathway that connects recovery-focused education with opportunities to learn, practice, and demonstrate everyday skills.
Two groups. One connected learning experience.
Core learning
Follow the phase curriculum
Explore the current phase through structured lessons and discussion.
Supplemental learning
Put ideas into practice
Reinforce the lesson with specialized workbooks, guided activities, and individualized skill building.
The FREEDOM Forward curriculum combines a structured six-phase core program with supplemental learning that reinforces practical skills, recovery principles, and personal growth.
Each weekday, participants take part in two structured groups. The first follows the core phase curriculum. The second deepens that learning through supplemental workbooks, guided activities individualized skill building.
The six-phase core curriculum.
Phase 1
Foundation of Personal Responsibility and Self-Care
Develop routines and everyday skills through personal responsibility, self-care, time management, health and medication routines, respectful communication, identity, and individual rights.
Phase 1: Foundation of Personal Responsibility and Self-Care helps participants develop the routines, self-awareness, and everyday skills needed for greater independence. The phase focuses on personal responsibility, self-care, time management, health and medication routines, respectful communication, personal identity, and understanding individual rights.
Phase 2
Social Interaction and Community Engagement
Practice communication, healthy boundaries, relationships, conflict resolution, community safety, and ways to identify useful resources and reliable support.
Phase 2: Social Interaction and Community Engagement helps participants build the communication, relationship, safety, and conflict-resolution skills needed to participate more confidently in community life. The phase also emphasizes healthy boundaries, positive social connections, awareness of community resources, and the development of reliable support systems.
Phase 3
Empowerment Through Self-Advocacy and Supported Decision-Making
Set meaningful goals, express preferences and needs, explore individual rights, and learn how trusted supporters can assist with decision-making.
Phase 3: Empowerment Through Self-Advocacy and Supported Decision-Making helps participants set meaningful goals, communicate their needs, and advocate for greater choice and independence. The phase also teaches Supported Decision-Making, legal-rights awareness, and how to build a trusted support network that can assist with restoring partial or full rights.
Phase 4
Pathways to Employment and Financial Independence
Explore education, vocational training, employment, and volunteering alongside workplace communication, budgeting, financial management, and work-life balance.
Phase 4: Pathways to Employment and Financial Independence prepares participants to explore education, vocational training, employment, and volunteer opportunities that match their interests and abilities. It also builds workplace communication, professional behavior, budgeting, financial-management, and work-life balance skills to support long-term independence and stability
Phase 5
Building Independence in Housing and Community Life
Build practical knowledge about housing options, transportation, household management, nutrition, personal safety, and planning for community living.
Phase 5: Building Independence in Housing and Community Life helps participants develop the practical skills needed to live safely and successfully in the community. The phase covers housing options, transportation, household management, nutrition, personal safety, conflict resolution, and planning for a transition to more independent living
Phase 6
Preparation for Guardianship Restoration and Legal Independence
Learn about seeking legal support, organizing documentation, developing a personal statement, and preparing for discussions about partial or full restoration of rights. Any legal outcome depends on the individual circumstances and applicable process.
Phase 6: Preparation for Guardianship Restoration and Legal Independence helps participants understand and prepare for the process of seeking partial or full restoration of their rights. The phase focuses on legal support, organizing documentation, developing a personal statement, preparing for court, and creating a long-term plan for maintaining independence with appropriate supports.
Everyday skills, practiced with purpose.
Personal routines
Personal grooming, housekeeping, laundry, time management, and health routines.
Wellness and communication
Emotional wellness, self-advocacy, respectful communication, and support networks.
Community participation
Financial literacy, vocational readiness, independent living, and community resources.
Supplemental learning overview
The second group each day expands on the core lesson through specialized workbooks and skill-based activities. Topics include: communication and self-advocacy, medication management, emotional wellness, independent living, community integration, financial literacy, wellness and vocational readiness, developing and showing an understanding of basic life skills like personal grooming, housekeeping, laundry, and others. This flexible structure allows participants to strengthen specific skills while reinforcing core concepts.
The restoration portfolio
Bring the learning together.
The portfolio records completed work, skills demonstrated, goals, and achievements. It helps participants and support teams discuss strengths, progress, and possible next steps over time.
It serves as an informational tool. It does not replace professional evaluations or legal decision-making.
This page provides a curriculum overview. Contact Patrick to discuss the program and its learning materials.
The Restoration Portfolio
Throughout the program, participants build a restoration portfolio that documents their work, skills demonstrated, goals and achievements. This portfolio is intended to support meaningful team discussions, offering a structured record of progress over time. It does not replace professional evaluations or legal decision-making, but serves as an informational tool.
Our educational philosophy
FREEDOM Forward is grounded in the belief that with opportunity, structure and support, people can continue to grow. We focus on growth and collaboration, working alongside the people and professionals who support each participant.
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FREEDOM Forward is an educational and skill-development program. It complements treatment and support services. It does not provide treatment, legal representation, or guardianship services, and participation does not guarantee a change in housing or legal rights.