Thistle and Bee Enterprises

Social justice enterprise: production, sale and distribution of various products, including premium granola and honey. The production, sale and distribution effort requires accountability, team work, organization skills, mathematical calculations, and inventory maintenance. These are all life-building skills needed for the survivors to successfully navigate and enter mainstream society.

Clinical services: efforts to rehabilitate and support the survivors' personal, pyschological and emotional development post trauma. These efforts include occupying a residence together, attending group and individual therapy sessions and recovery from substance abuse.

Bee apiaries: construction and maintenance of Bee hives used to produce honey for sale. Working with and learning about bees provides survivors with work skills based on manual labor care for the environment. They learn about the team work required within a fragile ecosystem to create an economically valuable product and are able to put this learning into practice during the honey harvest.