STRIPES: Participant Workbook & Portfolio

Participant Workbook & Portfolio

Earn your stripes. Rewrite your story. Build your future.

EARN YOUR STRIPES: The Stripe Journal is more than a workbook—it's a guided social-emotional learning and reentry curriculum designed to help participants reflect, heal, grow, and create a new path forward. Built alongside the memoir STRIPES: Behind Bars, Beyond Boundaries, this participant workbook combines personal reflection, practical life skills, and structured activities that help transform lived experiences into purpose and progress.

Through guided modules, journaling exercises, group discussions, and portfolio-building activities, participants learn to identify the "stripes" they've earned through resilience, discipline, accountability, and growth rather than the labels that have been placed upon them. The workbook emphasizes that earned stripes are built through action, while issued stripes are labels that do not define a person's future.

Designed for correctional education, reentry programs, mentoring organizations, workforce development initiatives, recovery programs, schools, and community-based organizations, this journal helps participants leave with practical tools, greater self-awareness, and a personalized portfolio that documents their growth.

Inside You'll Discover

• Guided self-reflection and journaling
• Eleven structured learning modules
• Social-emotional learning (SEL) activities
• Goal-setting and personal growth exercises
• Identity, accountability, and resilience building
• Career readiness and transferable skills activities
• Group discussion prompts and facilitator-friendly exercises
• Personal portfolio development
• Progress tracking through your own "Earned Stripes"

Perfect For

• Reentry and rehabilitation programs
• Correctional education
• Workforce development
• Recovery and treatment programs
• Community organizations
• Mentoring initiatives
• Schools and alternative education
• Personal growth and transformation