Our Programs

Using the best research available, the Alma Center has developed the following core programs:

Men Ending Violence

A trauma resolution and education program that explores root causes of intimate partner violence, focuses on healing past trauma and developing attitudes and behavior that will support respectful intimate partner relationships in the future.

We know our innovative programs are successful — a recent evaluation of more than 300 men who participated in our programs showed that completion of the Alma Center’s Men Ending Violence program reduces repeat domestic violence offenses by 87%. We hope you will partner with us to further both of our goals of changing abusive men and breaking the cycle of violence before it passes to the next generation.

While our direct work continues to be with men (partners, husbands and fathers), our ultimate goal is to help their children. We know that if we can heal hurting men, and help them resolve their own trauma and rage, we can prevent the men from transferring their pain to the to the next generation of children.

 

Restorative Fatherhood

This fatherhood education program helps men who have been abusive recognize, acknowledge and, when safe and possible, ameliorate the trauma they have caused their own children.  The program focuses on exploring personal experiences of fathering to learn compassion, forgiveness, and responsibility, and to build positive, trauma-informed and developmentally appropriate nurturing fathering and co-parenting values, attitudes, and skills.   

 

 

 

Wisdom Walk to Self-Mastery

An integral approach, pioneered by Jojopah Nsoroma an indigenous healer and shaman, which combines new discoveries in neurological science and proven therapeutic techniques with indigenous healing wisdom.  The program is organized around the five basic elements of the Dagara medicine wheel (fire, water, earth, nature, mineral).  Participants progress through the healing circle as if on a journey through the five elemental landscapes. Exercises, activities and rituals focus on cognitive, affective and behavioral recovery/restoration to transform the debility of trauma to a strength that can help men assume their full responsibilities in their families and communities.

 

 

 

Reentry Services

In 2017, the Alma Center extended its healing-focused services to individuals who are returning to the community from incarceration.

Alma Brothers.  An offender reentry project designed to address unresolved underlying trauma that predicates anti-social and criminal behavior and heightens the risk for ongoing criminal system involvement. The foundation of the program is the Alma Center’s evidence-based healing-focused care approach, as well as the pioneering approach of outreach and engagement with the offender’s family and social network in the full year prior to release from incarceration.

Smart Reentry. An innovative reentry employment program for high-risk offenders returning from imprisonment to the Center Street Corridor, an area of Milwaukee plagued by gun violence.