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FLYPAPER TRAPZ
Young people are told to "make better choices," "get out the streets," or "stay out of trouble" - yet no one hands them anything that explains how change actually happens. Where many credible messenger models struggle to define how change happens, our work explains it in plain language and supports it with structure. That clarity is what makes our approach scalable, teachable, and effective across diverse settings.
The programmatic goal of 1 I OPEN, LLC is to reduce youth involvement in violence, risky peer environments, social-media-driven conflicts, and justice-system contact by equipping families and stakeholders using our proprietary Cautionary Intelligence™ chapbook micro-lessons authored by a Credible Messenger who understands the street, the system, and the space in between. Each guide translates lived experience into disciplined, teachable insight designed to interrupt risk early, strengthen independent judgement, and support lasting behavior change.
What Sets Us Apart
Parents recognize themselves in the pages. Youth see their reality explained without judgement. Practitioners see engagement instead of avoidance. Funders see a missing link between outreach and outcomes. Our specialization is helping youth: 1) Identify high-risk peers and unsafe environments; 2) Reduce impulsive behavior in conflict moments; 3) Adopt safe-movement habits (who, where, how, when); 4) Understand the legal and personal consequences of choices; 5) Build emotional regulation; and 6) Limit harmful social media behaviors, while empowering parents and mentors to: A) Use Cautionary Intelligence™ scripts in real time; B) Improve supervision and intervention skills; C) Strengthen communication with their youth; and D) Increase confidence in knowing how to interpret warning signs.
FLYPAPER TRAPZ Chapbooks and Workbooks are short, 6th-grade-readable field guides that are thoroughly researched and assembled to do much more than translate law, psychology, and cautionary street wisdom into actionable insight. They are developed for real-world use by families, mentors, spouses, and community violence intervention partners.
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Licensing: 1 I OPEN, LLC provides a one-time County Program Use License that allows nonprofits, court, schools, and public agencies to install a ready-to-use educational and vocational framework designed specifically for youth and young adults navigating high-risk environments. This is not a program you have to run forever. It is an infrastructure you install once and use across your ecosystem. It is also the simplest model in the field: One county. One trusted organization. One license. One-time fee. No franchise. No reselling. No ongoing strings. Just a clean, durable framework designed for: justice-involved and justice-adjacent youth; violence-exposed young people; youth under community supervision; young adults aging out of systems; and mentors and frontline staff who need better tools.
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What You Get: 1) Ragged Canvas and its companion Workbook from our Product Catalog. A clear transformation roadmap youth can understand and use; 2) Structured decision-making and risk-anticipation tools; 3) Ready-made curriculum materials for mentors, caseworkers, and facilitators; 4) A vocational application that reinforces learning through skill-building and purpose; and 5) Consistent messaging across: a) schools; b) probation; c) diversion programs; d) youth-serving nonprofits; and e) family systems. No improvising. No reinventing the wheel. No dependency on outside consultants.
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Why We Are Different: There are no ongoing contracts to be signed, no annual renewal requirements, no need to submit endless reports, and no reliance upon outside 'trainers'.
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Our license is: One-time. Flat-priced. Non-exclusive. Non-renewing. Non-franchise. Locally controlled. Once licensed, you own the use within your county or jurisdiction.
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WHO WE ARE
At 1 I OPEN, LLC, our highest priority is building community as a Credible Messenger's trusted resource system around a shared mission to reduce preventable harm, prevent system-entry, and build better-adjusted people through cautionary education, self-leadership skills, and street-contextual decision frameworks as a model for a nationwide transformation movement.
We take the kind of lived experience that rarely makes it into professional spaces and pair it with research and system design that seldom reaches the people who need it most. The result is a form of Cautionary Intelligence that helps individuals and communities avoid the traps that quietly shape outcomes long before a courtroom ever enters the picture.
Engage With Us
Our primary purpose is simple and urgent: Put the right words, warnings, and strategies in the hands of anyone trying to pull someone they love out of harm's way and onto a trajectory of positive reinvention.
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MEET THE TEAM
Darnell
A U.S. Navy and Gulf War veteran, Darnell brings exceptional leadership and strategic expertise to his role as Managing Partner. With C-Suite level consulting skills, Darnell's military background instilled a commitment to discipline, resilience, and mission-driven results, which he applies in driving transformational change when tasked with guiding organizations toward operational excellence and innovation.
Jo’Von
As our experienced Public Safety Consultant known for her outgoing personality and infectiously optimistic approach to problem-solving, Jo'Von brings a deep passion for empowering youth and advocating for LGBTQ+communities. Dedicated to creating inclusive, safe, and supportive environments, Jo'Von exudes a dynamic energy and enthusiasm for inspiring positive change, while her expertise in public safety strategies ensures impactful, lasting solutions combined with a unique blend of compassion and strategic insight to every project she leads.
Nyree
Nyree is a dynamic Masters HBCU-graduated Associate Consultant with a diverse background in teaching and sports. As a former Division I volleyball talent, recruited to play for both Ohio University and Morgan State University, Nyree brings extensive athletic experience across multiple sports. Having played and coached in volleyball, basketball (including the LA Sparks), and baseball, Nyree leverages a unique perspective on teamwork, leadership, and discipline. Passionate about youth empowerment and charitable causes, Nyree is dedicted to making a positive impact through sports and community service.
Sania
Sania is our enthusiastic, globe-trotting software engineering Associate Consultant who leads prototype development with innovative solutions. While successfully graduating with a Master's degree in the United Kingdom in 2024, she balances academic growth with her passion for making a difference. Sania volunteers with The Citizens' Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to educating poor and disadvantaged children, reflecting her commmitment to social impact and empowerment through education. Sania's dedication to both her professional career and charitable causes showcases her drive to create meaningful change on a global scale.
Phillip
Phillip, more popularly known as "The Fight DOC," is the Founder and Lead Credible Messenger of 1 I OPEN, LLC where he has served as a strategist, educator, mentor, and practitioner with a track record of transforming environments, outcomes, and individual lives across disparate systems.
As both an amateur and professional boxing coach of champions, he honed an early understanding of discipline, motivation, and performance under pressure -- skills he later translated into structured coaching and mentorship for men and youth across three generations.
He served as a Laubach literacy tutor, teaching critical reading and communication skills to learners from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds -- work that deepened his commitment to meeting people where they are and strengthening competence through language and insight.
As a federal pro se trial litigator, Phillip successfully leveraged constitutional expertise to obtain injunctive relief and meaningful improvements in unconstitutional conditions of confinement, demonstrating his ability to combine legal strategy and alternative administrative dispute resolution processes with human-centered outcomes.
While incarcerated, he emerged as an effective leader and mentor, guiding 1993's post-Lucasville riot tensions into constructive transformation for its overflow population as the elected Chairman of the Inmate Liaison Committee - shifting a volatile prison environment into a space focused on education, programming, and positive activity.
His lived experience, legal acumen, and mentoring practice converged in his work with Eddie Bocanegra, former Senior Advisor for Community Violence Intervention at the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice -- a national leader in community violence intervention and credible messenger frameworks grounded in lived experience and structured engagement.
Today, Phillip channels this multidisciplinary expertise into 1 I OPEN, LLC, where he and his civilian team deliver original, evidence-informed cautionary guidance through FLYPAPER TRAPZ 4 Tha Streetz™ series. His work bridges street-level insight with intervention design, producing tools that address dynamic risk factors and enhance independent decision-making long before crisis points arise.
In a field where lived experience is often offered as testimony alone, Phillip transforms that experience into structured guidance -- proprietary Cautionary Intelligence™ -- that equips individuals, families, and practitioners to act differently and earlier, closing the gap between insight and lasting behavior change.