Impact

Promoting Social Change

We believe the solution is in the community and we believe in getting at the root causes of problems. We believe that when you focus on people gifts, talents, passions, and futures, rather than their flaws, faults and pasts, miraculous things happen. By emphasizing strengths and aspirations over shortcomings and past mistakes, we promote transformative change.  We value lived experience and the knowledge it brings, advocating for inclusive decision-making that impacts our lives and our communities.

Our organization drives social change by dismantling barriers for justice-system impacted and LGBTQ+ individuals, shifting community perceptions through success stories, and fostering economic independence. By focusing on talents rather than labels, we challenge systemic and societal rejection, offering hope and opportunity where traditional systems fail. Our pardon hub clears records, restoring rights, while our startups address local issues, creating a ripple effect of empowerment and healing. Our advocacy work aims to change hearts and minds as well as encourage systematic approaches that lead to diversionary opportunities and away from harmful behaviors and/or further incarceration. Our name not only reminds us of our mission to Break the Trauma so we can fix the problems, but also to take a Break. To achieve our best in creating change, we integrate wellness into all aspects of our work. We also strive to utilize incubator clients from within our own ecosystem for wellness and other services needed in doing that work. We are a model theory of change and as our brand promise reminds us, we are Making Difference™, in more ways than one. 

We are Artists, Makers, Creators, Designers, Thinkers, Fixers and Doers. We are Making Difference™