Voluntary Rehabilitation Program

The O.V.A.L Program Social Rehabilitation Program is a one-year, participant pay, live-in institutional commitment that provides: counseling, behavior enhancement, values escalation, character reconstruction, remedial education, career identification and development, physical fitness, new life experiences, and a job.

The Program’s goals are to help the client develop a self-controlled vision of life that provides quality and fulfillment through self-determination and hard work in his business or occupation.  These goals, being realized, will elevate the client beyond the factors and forces that originally led to his previous criminal breach or lifestyle.

The O.V.A.L Program Social Rehabilitation Program devotes a full initial month to a strenuous individual assessment process to determine the needs and interest of the client.  Through this analysis, we develop a curriculum of classes, therapies, and experiences best suited for the individual.

The O.V.A.L Program provides a number of therapeutic approaches that are tailored to fit the client’s needs” from meditation to work therapy; from community service to survival training.

The O.V.A.L Program also requires its clients to exercise voluntary penitence.  This begins with the client’s enrollment and voluntary entry into a 24/7 supervised, ordered and controlled environment. The client voluntarily surrenders his freedoms and accepts The O.V.A.L Program Program.  He must live in and abide by the rules of the program for one year.  He must follow the strict program disciplines including counseling, training, at least eight hours of work, physical fitness, growth programs, and spiritual and character development.  For all intents and purposes, he is institutionalized and stripped of all normal freedoms.  He has limited social contact with family on visiting day.

The participant sacrifices these freedoms in a need for self-correction and self-atonement through the personal realization that he has violated the social contract and also compromised the better man he can truly be.  The participant hopes the court will accept this year of voluntary penitence as evidence of his contrition and his resolve to be a better man and a better member of society.  He enters The O.V.A.L Program Social Rehabilitation Program with no promises, no assurances but with the knowledge that, no matter what the outcome of the pending case and his debt to society, he will be a better man for the experience.

During the year the participant spends with The O.V.A.L Program, he/she will become a better man/woman through his/her own efforts.  He/She will grow and mature as a person and see his responsibility to others in a new and different light.  He will develop job skills as a result of daily employment and become more self-confident in the management of his life.  And, for a few who give their all to the program, there will be a metamorphosis into an entirely new person.

The cost of this program will usually fall initially on the participant’s support group, who will likely enter into financing options to handle fee payment arrangements.  After one month, the participant is assigned a job and thereafter the financed payments are deducted from his check; although the support group remains bound until the debt is retired.  This arrangement proves to be optimum because it yokes the expectation of progress by the participant to the sacrifice, trust, and faith his support group has in the participant.