Life-Skills Workshops: Guest speakers lead discussions on important life-skills topics including goal-setting, personal empowerment, employment, money management, healthy living and education.

Mentoring: Each participant works one-on-one with a volunteer mentor to set short and long-term goals and the plans to achieve those goals.  Mentors also help participants incorporate the lessons discussed in the workshop sessions into their own lives, and assist with the preparation of the Stepping Stones presentation.

Support Services: would be provides support and case management for the participants throughout the semester, as part of their field practicum.  The student assists participants with the emotional rigors of the program, as well as with practical needs in their daily lives that may create obstacles to graduation.

Stepping Stones: Participants share their personal stories and life goals with each other, their mentors and the group facilitators as a way to reinforce positive behavior, diminish negative behavior and commit to specific goals.  Toward the program’s conclusion, participants share their stories and goals with an audience of family, friends, parishioners and other members of the community in an evening known as Stepping Stones. ​