Full Circle Waverly isn’t your typical auto shop; it’s a shop on a mission to end generational poverty and eliminate recidivism. So how do we do it? Through the subsidized car ownership and reentry job training programs offered by our parent organization, Vehicles for Change!
While your car is getting top-notch service from an experienced automotive technician, master mechanics work with auto repair interns in our classrooms. Ten trainees are learning the ropes and repairing vehicles donated to our organization at any given time. The cars fixed by the Full Circle trainees are then awarded to hardworking families with financial challenges who are referred to our organization by social service agencies.
Since the training program’s inception, 170+ people have graduated from our program, and 100% of those graduated have gone on to find gainful employment. Of all graduates, 95% of all Full Circle graduates were formerly incarcerated, and less than 5% have returned to prison, a far cry from the national average recidivism rate of 77%.