"One Step Away": A Life-Changing Program for the Incarcerated

This session introduces attendees to Michael DeLeon, a successful ex-offender who brings 47 years of personal experience with addiction, crime, incarceration, and rehabilitation to his audience. He developed a 10-step program that is engaging, relatable to its audience, and very effective at inspiring incarcerated men and women to become involved in their rehabilitation. Michael shares his story, explains the importance of how much his time in the corrections system changed his life, and shows how he developed “One Step Away” to increase the motivation of the incarcerated population to invest in their own rehabilitation. Inmates who complete this program are not only more motivated to never return to incarceration, they are also more determined to follow the facility’s rules, not participate in contraband and violence, and more committed to creating a positive, safe corrections environment.