Constructing Futures is a for-profit organization that serves the greater St. Louis area and its surrounding counties. Our goal is to make significant impact in the recidivism rate of men and women who are reentering society from jail or prison by training and giving marketable skills to those who sincerely want to change.  Our services will include on-site education in the remodeling and re-habbing industry providing from basic to advanced training in all areas of construction. The end result of the training process will be fully rehabbed buildings that can be used for a multitude of purposes such as battered woman’s shelters, recovery houses and potentially low-income housing.  Constructing Futures  receives its support from state and federal grants, the city of St. Louis,  St. Louis county, charitable organizations and corporate sponsorship.

The United States has more people incarcerated than any other country in the world with more than 2 million in the last ten years. Currently tax payers are absorbing approximately 40 billion dollars a year and the prison population has tripled in the last decade. The end result of this punish and incarcerate philosophy is that nearly 2 out of 3 inmates released from prison today will return within the next 3 years. Most of these statistics can be attributed to the lack of skills both personal and vocational. They give up.
Rather than handing them a bus ticket and a parole officer appointment, Constructing Futures begins its relationship with these men and women while they are in release status and comfortably transitions them from jail or prison to the work force. Our services build confidence and ability to earn more than just a minimum wage. Our training can take a person who could only hope to make the bare minimum working at a fast food restaurant and train them in a few short weeks to read a tape measure, hang drywall or paint a wall nearly doubling their income earning capacity.  It is the inability to make ends meet through lack of skills and personal confidence that plays the major role in why they return to crime ultimately getting them sent back to prison.