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# 🌟 Help Us Raise $5,000 for Beyond BARS Coaching!

Support justice-involved individuals as they rebuild their lives with stability, confidence, and dignity.

Hi Rebels and community friends — I’m raising $5,000 to support the next cohort I’ll be serving in January through Voices of Recovery, while keeping funds accessible for current and continued growth opportunities, and I need your help to make it happen.

Beyond BARS Coaching is a small, trauma-informed nonprofit built from lived experience, and every dollar directly funds programs that help individuals transitioning from incarceration, rehabilitation, or group homes create lasting, meaningful change.

Your donation directly supports:

### 🔸 📘 Printing The Newly Updated Beyond BARS Workbooks

Our Version 2 workbook includes:

  • A full 90-day curriculum
  • Career + education roadmaps
  • Daily planners
  • Nervous system regulation tools
  • Journal exercises and mailed check-ins
    Each workbook is a life-changing resource, especially for individuals who cannot access digital tools.

### 🔸 💻 Bringing Beyond BARS Content to the EDOVO Platform

We are preparing to submit:

  • Workbooks
  • Sober Rebel podcast episodes
  • Trauma-informed yoga + nervous system videos
    This gives incarcerated learners 24/7 access to holistic reentry and recovery tools — a huge leap in impact and reach.

### 🔸 🧡 Supporting 1:1 Clients Who Are System-Impacted

Many of the individuals I serve have no financial resources.
Your donations allow me to:

  • Offer coaching
  • Provide worksheets
  • Reply to snail mail
  • Cover phone calls and emotional support
    at no cost to them.

### 🔸 🌱 Covering Essential Operating Costs

Your support helps sustain:

  • Printing and mailing
  • Program materials
  • Tech + software
  • Outreach + facilitation
  • Event hosting costs

### 🔸 🎉 Hosting Quarterly Fundraisers & Community Events

These events allow us to grow sustainably while building awareness, connection, and donor engagement.

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## 🧡 Why Your Support Matters

Beyond BARS Coaching is entirely donor-funded.
I’m one person running a trauma-informed nonprofit — and doing it with heart, lived experience, and a commitment to walking beside people as they rebuild their lives.

Your donation doesn’t just fund programs.

It funds hope, healing, and second chances.
Even $10 makes a difference.
$50 sponsors a workbook for one Rebel.
$100 sponsors a workbook for two Rebels.
$250 sponsors a workbook for five Rebels.

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## 🌟 Donate Today & Help Us Reach $5,000

Together, we can continue expanding this mission, serving more people, and getting Beyond BARS Coaching into the hands of those who need it most.
Thank you for believing in this work — and in the Rebels rebuilding their lives.
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🚦START A FUNDRAISER PAGE: Help me spread the word about Beyond BARS Coaching by creating a Fundraising page for your family and friends. Click on the "Fundraise Now!" button above to get started. Please reach out to me if you have any questions.

🪴 VOLUNTEER: We need volunteers! Please contact Vanessa Ragains at (650) 307-6592 (Text is faster. If you call, leave a message), or you can email [Vanessa.Ragains@gmail.com](mailto:Vanessa.Ragains@gmail.com). Ready to start? 👉 Fill out the 🪴 Volunteer Form!

### Check out the Beyond BARS Coaching Program Details HERE!

## 🙋‍♀️ Common FAQs:

Q: What does BARS stand for?
Behavior Change
Ambition
Rebel Against Recidivism
Self-Awareness

Q: How does Beyond BARS Coaching support folks currently incarcerated, in rehab, or in group homes?
A: I am currently reaching out to local jails, prisons, rehab facilities, and group homes in the Bay Area to offer the Beyond BARS Coaching Workbook as a valuable resource. If you have a loved one who is incarcerated and you would like to send them a workbook, we can arrange a quick call. During this call, I’ll get to know you and gather the correct shipping address to ensure your loved one receives it. The workbook is specifically designed for individuals inside so that when they transition back into the community, they can effectively implement the Beyond BARS Coaching Program based on what the workbook has prepared them for.

Q: Do you offer a monthly donation program?
A: I do! I offer 3 Monthly Tiers plus bonuses depending on your chosen Tier. Check out my Donation Page!

⚠️ Didn't answer your question? Please text me (650) 307-6592 or email [Vanessa.Ragains@gmail.com](mailto:Vanessa.Ragains@gmail.com).

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