Campaigns
Advancing Our Agenda
Education & Outreach
Missed Opts Inc. presented at the Delaware Department of Education's 2023 Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Well-Being (SEBW) Conference.
Community Development
Missed Opts Inc.'s vision is to create a system that supports individual achievement and success for individuals and their families who have been affected by incarceration in hopes that individuals don’t return to prison or a life of crime or substance abuse, and in hopes that they and their families can achieve their fullest potential by using their innate strengths and abilities.
Support Services
Missed Opts Inc. fosters a spirit of teamwork: Together Everyone Accomplishes More. Missed Opts Inc. relies on an environment with open communication and where challenges can be discussed freely and resolved in a mutually respectful atmosphere, taking into account circumstances and the individual employee. Missed Opts Inc. is sensitive to the unique and diverse needs of our target population and considers all factors including gender, gender identity, ethnicity, family composition (including intact families, families living with a biological relative often a grandmother; adoptive families, and foster care families), and the impact of all relevant socio-economic factors (such as poverty, violence, and homelessness) in respectfully assessing and treating clients. All staff are trained to be culturally competent and sensitive to the unique and varied needs of our population.
Our Services
Peer Mentoring Services: Missed Opts, Inc. Executive Director provides training, supervision, and
professional development services to support DOC Certified and Uncertified Peer Specialists who are
resident peer facilitators of the Trauma, Addictions, Mental Health, And Recovery (TAMAR) Curriculum to other
inmates within several Delaware Department of Corrections (DOC) facilities across the state.
Peer Support Services: Missed Opts provides resources and peer support services to individuals and
their families upon returning to their community or after incarceration who are at-risk for relapse or
development of substance use disorders in statewide.
Educational Outreach Services: Missed Opts delivers and supports school and community education
programs that promote safe and compassionate communities.
Black Boy Lost:
Purpose: to create safe and compassionate schools by strengthening communication between students and educators who are impacted by individual, familial, or community trauma through sharing lived-experience.
Our Department of Corrections (DOC) Services
Victim Impact (10 weeks)
Victim Impact program teaches offenders to look at the impact of their crime on their victims, community, and their own family members. The program is designed to enable the offender to take responsibility for the crime they committed which helps to reduce the likelihood of re-offending. Reducing the number of crimes reduces the number of victims.
Courage To Change (10 weeks)
The Courage to Change program provides a model for the cognitive restructuring of criminal thinking. Modules address topics such as responsible thinking, social values, self-control, family ties, peer relationships, substance use, and skills for success.