“Ms. Pettway’s talents and motivation to serve with excellence go hand in hand. She offers her lived experience through addiction, recovery and incarceration as a starting block to connecting with people whom are impacted by the complexity of trauma, violence and crime. As a professional, she also integrates the best practices that lifts people into the possibility of a different way of thinking and living. She is extremely talented. Through her support and the wide array of services, people with long histories of incarceration and disconnection from mainstream society found an
anchor for life’s transformation. In addition to her 1:1 work, Ms. Pettway was also a lead, evidence based best practices curriculum facilitator. She facilitated Thinking for a Change, Seeking Safety, Anger Management, and Healthy Relationships to name a few. To date Nichole has completed nine 26 week long cohorts, graduated 67 people and assisted several
probationers with early discharged. With the formally incarcerated population that is no easy feat.”