LEAP provides 300+ hours of holistic in-prison education and mentorship, employability and life skills classes as well as trauma informed substance abuse programming.
When an inmate is released, LEAP helps them transition into stable housing and employment.
LEAP provides on-going advocacy and life-long community for inmates after they graduate to make sure they continue to get the support they need.
Leap runs a one-of-a-kind prison re-entry program for women combining essential employability and life skills, entrepreneurship, self-love, and mentorship.
Mentors are an integral part of LEAP’s holistic approach to education and helping women transition back into society. The women in our program lack access to basic resources needed to …
The Compassion Project is a photo, installation and art film project, featuring LEAP graduates opening at the Coral Gables Museum on June 7, 2019 for sixteen weeks. For more project details, the …
The Dragonfly Thrift Boutique is a LEAP initiative to empower women to put prison in their past….. 100% of the boutique’s proceeds support LEAP’s mission Physical ground zero for LEAP’s …
Every volunteer is an important part of the effort to help women put prison in the past. When committed individuals join together to help, lives can change for the better. …
Opened in 2018 by the Ladies Action and Empowerment Program, the Dragonfly Thrift Boutique in Miami helps train, support, and employ women who have been recently released from prison. This …
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – It’s an unlikely pairing, women prisoners and entrepreneurs, but there is an organization of women that have figured out how to mentor, change lives and make money. …
She was partway through a five-year sentence for domestic violence-related charges when she realized that something had to change in her life. Due to a particularly traumatic childhood, Brown found …
