Briefly, learning life skills emphasizes making good choices and decisions. Once in the correctional system, eighty percent of the inmates return to jail or prison. Often they are young, fearful, and distrusting. The inmates need guidance, purpose and direction. Too often they repeat criminal acts and go back to the same environment, friends, and activities that got them in jail.
Inmates lack knowledge of the roles they play in society.
The EFF framework enables the students to see themselves accessing information, voicing opinions and ideas, taking independent action to solve problems and make decisions, and bridging to the future with lifelong learning. EFF echoes in their minds because inmates look forward to the day that they will be free. Equipped for the Future empowers students to go beyond their imprisonment and to prepare for the future. EFF creates a positive mindset that is conducive to learning. It is about how to be successful outside in the community.