Ragged Canvas™: Clear Action-Steps for Leaving the Streets is a first-of-its-kind comprehensive Transformational Guide + Workbook System for youth and young adults seeking to exit the streets with clarity, structure, and measurable action steps.

For decades. young people have been told to "get out of the streets," yet almost no one gives them 'how'-steps to make that transition. No roadmap. No steps. No structure. No explanation of what the transformation process requires or what it will look like for them.
 
Ragged Canvas™ fills that gap. 
 
This powerful tool is designed for parents, mentors, educators, counselors, detention staff, probation officers, community providers, and young adults themselves. It delivers a clear, teachable, and realistic pathway out of street immersion using: 
 
Risk-Need-Responsivity tools
Criminogenic risk indicators 
Decision-making and pattern-recognition exercises 
Communication and emotional regulation practices 
Conflict-avoidance and "walk away" strategies 
Blueprint-style action steps for personal transformation 
 
Young people cannot be realistically expected to leave what they know -- even when it's harming them -- unless they are given meaningful direction, structure, and a process they can trust. 
 
 
Ragged Canvas™ gives them: 
 
A safe, honest starting point 
Tools to understand their risks and needs 
A framework for building discipline and independence 
Exercises that show them how to self-adjust in real time 
 A roadmap that prepares them for the stress, challenges, and phases     of change 
 
This is not lecturing material. 
This is a practical transformation system that youth can follow day-by-day, and adults can use to guide them with clarity and certainty. 
 
If you work with youth - or seek to get a loved one out of harm's way -Ragged Canvas™ is the blueprint every household, courtroom, school, and community program has been missing from their toolkit. 
 
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