Other Side Academy

The Other Side Academy is a 2 1/2-year self-sustaining, vocation and life skills training program for men and women determined to break their cycle of long-term criminal behavior, substance abuse, and homelessness. Participants are housed, fed, and clothed all free of charge with financial support derived from our student-run social enterprises. We address long-term whole person change within the context of daily work and community living. Our students receive real-time behavioral and social interaction feedback consistently. Senior students and staff teach from lived experience and use radical candor to work through communication issues and correct dysfunctional thinking.