Mission Statement

Correctional Transition Services, Inc. (CTSI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing unique and proven community-based programming for individuals transitioning from the criminal justice system back into their communities. CTSI believes without reservation that all individuals possess the ability to make positive life changes. Based upon this belief, CTSI provides chemical dependency treatment, cognitive re-structuring intervention and life skill services while encouraging change by inspiring personal responsibility and accountability.

Core Values


Accountability:

We insist on the highest standards of accountability and transparency from our clients and ourselves. We accept responsibility and hold ourselves accountable to each other, our clients, our volunteers, our contributors, and our community.

Program Integrity:

We commit to providing the best assistance to our clients as we can. We manage our programs honestly and directly, accept responsibility for our actions, and follow through on commitments and promises.


Respect:

We recognize the inherent dignity in every human being, and we honor that in ourselves and in our clients as the most solid basis for mutual trust, cooperation, and progress in our lives.

Belief in Human Resilience:


We believe that all individuals possess the ability to make positive life changes and contribute to the good of their community.


Client Focused:

The success of our clients defines our success. We put the good of our clients first and are committed to their long term recovery.

CTSI’S ‘Day One’ of our clients new way of thinking and behaving

The ‘Day One’ Program utilizes as its program foundation, principles of sound programming identified through the most exhaustive collection of research in correctional programming most commonly known as "What Works". Our program is behavior based and..

Focuses on current factors that influence behavior
Is action oriented
Our clients behavior is appropriately reinforced


Located in North Minneapolis with easy access by bus and interstate, CTSI offers intervention and re-entry services by providing comprehensive "best practices" programming and acts as a conduit to community resources that facilitate positive outcomes.

     C.T.S.I.-Working to make people, families, and our community, stronger, healthier, and safer.
Correctional Transition Services provides re-entry training to ex-offenders making the transition back to everyday life.  Focusing on life skills, chemical dependency treatment, and general behavioral counseling, CTSI helps ex-offenders prepare themselves for re-entry back into society. CTSI Counselors provide hands-on treatment of chemical dependency, lifeskills, and general transition issues for ex-offenders facing re-entry.

 

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
-Joshua J. Marine