FOCUS Serves and Supports the Following Correctional Facilities

  • Anderson County Detention Facility

  • Knox County Detention Facility

  • Sullivan County Jail

  • Bledsoe County Correctional Complex

  • Blount County (working on programming)

PROVIDING HOPE FOR INCARCERATED WOMEN

Join the cause of mentoring women behind the walls in one of the facilities FOCUS serves throughout East Tennessee. Volunteer facilitators are equipped to lead Christ-centered classes, provide life-skills education, and focus on recovery.

FOCUS is currently available in state prison and county jails throughout East Tennessee. The goal is to coordinate well with facility leaders, staff classes with passionate and competent volunteers, and host classes that challenge and inspire women to real-life change from the inside out. When successful, students of the program know they have:

  • A strong support system during incarceration and beyond

  • A firm foundation in the basics of biblical living and the knowledge of how to grow in their faith

  • A way of escape from the empty ways of living found in incarceration and addiction cycles

  • A base of knowledge on how to be a better spouse, parent, daughter, and productive member of society

Become a FOCUS Facilitator

Whether a full-program or a classroom partner facility, FOCUS strives to give the HOPE of JESUS to women behind the walls. If you would like to become a FOCUS Facilitator and join in this impactful work, please click the button below.  

There are so many great programs offered here at ACDF, but this one was by far the most beneficial to me. Through Freedom for Life, I learned that freedom comes from me taking responsibility for my actions and attitudes without blaming anyone else. Once I confess my willful sin and disobedience in my life, God forgives me and cleanses me from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9). I was also able to get real with myself about all the emotional trauma I continuously repressed, and the wounds in my heart. I realize I need God’s intervention in my life. I just need to find the courage to do what I always knew I needed done. Thank you for enlightening me to the true root of my problems! I highly recommend this class to anyone seeking true freedom from their demons-literally.

-Sarah M.

Student Testimonies

“To be honest, I have no idea where to even begin. Let’s go all the way back. I was born into an ever raging battle. I’ve seen the good and the bad. Of course, it is so simple to say I became a product of my environment or to simply blame others for the mistakes I have made up til now in my life but it is so much more than that! I was born with generational curses and have given the enemy, satan, some new ones throughout my life. I became everything I said I never would. I listened and began to believe all the negative things people would tell me, that is until I realized that by simply believing my whole life could change. I have carried around so much trauma and hurt with me for years. I had no clue how to begin the healing process. I turned to rebelling any chance I got. I turned to drugs, unhealthy relationships, and even self-harm at one point. It wasn’t until I hit complete rock bottom at the end of 2022, early 2023 that I truly started my ultimate healing process and that was by accepting God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit to truly start working on me. This is not an overnight process. I am still struggling with different things at different times but I remind myself that my God is Almighty and He can do everything but fail. I am so blessed and thankful to have all the ladies at FOCUS Ministries to help me along my healing process and God and Jesus Christ for making me a new creation” (2 Corinthians 5:17)

~Mary F.