A New Kind of Healing

At Transformative Justice Healthy Lifestyles (TJHLP), we recognize the need for justice responses that promote specialized mental health for emerging adults and youth focused on healing, accountability, resilience, and safety, ultimately building a bridge to healthy communities.

Our Approach

Transformative Justice

The TJHLP addresses one of the root causes of behaviors of criminal behavior- lack of access to specialized mental health care. Over 60 percent of emerging adults and youth involved in the justice system did not receive the mental health care they need.

Mental Health

The TJHLP does not consider criminal behavior strictly a behavioral problem but as behavior driven by essential mental health/emotional and psychological needs. It treats criminal behavior as developmental and generational and considers it a problematic way to meet essential universal emotional needs such as autonomy, relatedness, and competence.

Healing

The TJHLP uses a holistic, scientifically proven, and culturally responsive approach to mental health that engages people in a process of becoming whole and healthy by recognizing their humanity.

Community

TJHLP defines community as a group of interconnected people who honor the obligation to treat others with love and kindness. The Transformative Living Community nurtures and develops relationships with each other grounded in humility and respect.

Our Clients Believe In Us

I've been misguided and lead wrong my whole life and Dr. Dickie was one of the first people who's been in my corner and guiding me to being a positive, trustworthy, loveable, respectful man.

HLP was the single best thing to happen to me. I was in a dark place before I was put into this program.

Dr. Dickie the program that you created helped me realize my potential and changed my perspective on life overall and you and the therapist will forever be a part of story because of that.