Five Keys

Five Keys provides intensive and comprehensive education intervention, vocational planning, and academic case management for IPO participants. Services are delivered on-site at the IPO host sites (Arriba Juntos and Young Community Developers) and at the transitional employment worksite.

Five Keys currently partners with IPO contractors to provide IPO participants with educational assessment and basic skills training, along with high school and GED completion services. Participants are assessed at the provider site, but students must travel to an existing Five Keys campus away from their work and CBO host site.

Multiple service sites often create a barrier for participants (especially those with gang-related travel restrictions); furthermore, education under this model creates a dichotomy between vocational and educational services.

• COLLEGE CLASSES/BEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE RECOVERY
• REENTRY SERVICES

Experience has taught us that providing wraparound services post-release greatly increases the chances that inmate/students will use what they’ve learned in school to establish a positive, pro-social lifestyle.

Five Keys uses the principles and practices of Restorative Justice as a guiding philosophy for all Five Keys programs.

This program is in partnership with San Francisco Mayor’s office and Office of Economic and Workforce Development.

Most classrooms are operated in partnership with community-based organizations. When enrolling with Five Keys, we will obtain the students prior school transcripts, assess their academic strengths and needs and develop a plan to meet their academic goals.