- Mentoring programs
- Violence-prevention initiatives
- Reentry and diversion services
- School-based intervention models
- Programs for youth tried as adults
Youth Development/Mentoring Design/Juvenile Justice Strategy/Training/Evaluation
We design the
architecture of
transformation.
Future Focus Solutions builds mentoring, violence-prevention, reentry, and youth-development programs that hold up to scrutiny. Our founder grew Reach, a school-based mentoring program in the Fulton County District Attorney's Office, from 6 schools to 23 schools in four years.
01Company Overview
We provide consulting, training, technical assistance, public speaking, curriculum development, and program evaluation for organizations serving youth impacted by trauma, violence, poverty, school disengagement, and the justice system.
Our work helps organizations create structured, credible, and measurable programs that support positive behavior, emotional development, accountability, leadership, and long-term success — programs that can be replicated across locations and defended to funders.
23Schools reached
13+Years of successful reentry
1stSentencing consultant, Fulton County PD Conflict Unit
02Core Services
Five disciplines, one blueprint.
Engagements are scoped as assessment, design, build, or train-the-trainer — and delivered with the documentation your funders and auditors expect.
03Signature Program
The Rewritten Futures Academy
Licensable Program · Add-On to Any Engagement
A methodology that moves young people and the organizations serving them from crisis-centered response to future-centered development. Rewritten Futures is available as a standalone program or as an additive component layered onto any consulting engagement — select a tenet, then a setting.
01 / IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT
Students name who they are outside of their discipline record.
The framework is customized for schools, juvenile justice agencies, courts, nonprofits, mentoring organizations, and community-based programs — and delivered with facilitator guides, session plans, and outcome measures.
WHAT WE BUILD FOR YOU
A curriculum built around your organization.
We don't hand you a binder off a shelf. Every Academy engagement begins with your population, setting, and goals — then Aakeem and his team develop the facilitator guide, session plans, and training materials specifically for your staff and the young people you serve.
- 10-session curriculum designed for your population
- Custom facilitator guides & session plans
- Youth-facing workbooks tailored to your setting
- Train-the-trainer staff onboarding & coaching
- Outcome measures built around your goals
- Funder-ready reporting templates
- Cultural-responsiveness adaptations
- Ongoing implementation support
04Program Pricing
The Rewritten Futures Academy tiers.
Additive Service · Layer Onto Any Engagement
Every tier includes a custom-developed ten-session curriculum built for your population and setting. Pricing scales with cohort size, sites, and the depth of implementation support — license it standalone or layer it onto any consulting engagement.
FOUNDATION
Single cohort
$4,500
per cohort license
- 10-session curriculum designed for your cohort
- Custom facilitator guide & session plans
- Youth workbooks tailored to your population (up to 25)
- Outcome measures built around your goals
- One virtual onboarding session
Most Chosen
IMPACT
Multi-site
$12,000
per program year
- Everything in Foundation
- Up to 3 sites / 75 youth
- Train-the-trainer staff certification & coaching
- Cultural-responsiveness adaptation
- Quarterly implementation coaching
- Funder-ready evaluation report
TRANSFORMATION
District / agency-wide
Custom
from $75K · scoped to your system
- Everything in Impact
- Multi-year outcome partnership
- System-wide implementation — unlimited sites
- Embedded program director support
- Curriculum co-branding
- Priority speaking & training access
Rewritten Futures Academy · Online Curriculum
Academy Online
Self-paced · Ready to deliver now
The same ten tenets, delivered as a ready-made online course. Built for smaller, established organizations that already have the staff, the relationships, and the students — and just need the curriculum to hand over. No development cycle, no train-the-trainer, no waiting on a scoping conversation: buy seats, and your students begin the same day.
$49per learner seat
Facilitator Access
$100 flat, then seats at $49 each
- All 30 lessons — 10 tenets across 3 book-based settings
- Quizzes and progress tracking built in
- Personal reflection journal for every learner
- Students begin immediately — no build or onboarding cycle
- Same ten tenets as a fully licensed cohort engagement
- Facilitator dashboard to enroll and monitor your learners
Foundation, Impact, and Transformation materials are developed specifically for your organization during the engagement — not pre-packaged off the shelf. Academy Online is the ready-made alternative for organizations that need students learning now. Consulting tiers can be layered onto any engagement or licensed standalone; final pricing is confirmed in the scope conversation.
04The Proven Path
A record built in institutions, not slide decks.
Scroll the timeline of impact.
23Schools
Reach, Expanded
Created and directs Reach, a school-based mentoring program operated through the Fulton County District Attorney's Office, growing it from 6 schools to 23 in four years.
01Statewide
Youth Tried as Adults
Created a statewide program serving youth tried as adults, helping them develop creative thinking and behavioral-change strategies.
1stHired
Georgia DJJ
The first person with a felony record hired by the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice after restoration of civil rights.
1stConsultant
Sentencing Strategy
The first sentencing consultant for the Fulton County Public Defender's Office Conflict Unit, bridging attorneys and clients for stronger sentencing presentations.
13+Years
Successful Reentry
More than thirteen years of successful reentry without returning to prison — after creating a mentoring program for young men entering prison while serving a life sentence as a teenager.
01Book
Trapped Inside Myself
Author of Trapped Inside Myself: The Aakeem Woodard Story, and an experienced speaker on transformation, leadership, justice reform, and resilience.
05Organizational Value
What changes after
we engage.
- 01Strengthen mentoring quality and consistency
- 02Improve youth engagement and retention
- 03Prepare mentors and staff to work with traumatized youth
- 04Build measurable program outcomes
- 05Improve grant applications and compliance reporting
- 06Develop credible prevention and reentry strategies
- 07Reduce gaps between institutions and the young people they serve
- 08Create programs that can be replicated across multiple locations
- 09Demonstrate responsible use of public and private funding
06Why Future Focus Solutions
FOUNDER
Aakeem Woodard
Professional expertise and lived experience, rarely found in one place.
Aakeem Woodard understands youth development from eight vantage points at once. That perspective lets Future Focus Solutions design strategies that are practical, credible, culturally responsive, and connected to the realities young people actually face.
He is the founder and principal consultant, author of Trapped Inside Myself: The Aakeem Woodard Story, and the architect of the Rewritten Futures framework.
Aakeem was also the first person hired with a felony background to work for the Department of Juvenile Justice, and the first person to be hired to work for the Fulton County District Attorney's office — proof that a rewritten future is not a metaphor, but a path he has walked.
He was also the first person hired to work as a sentencing consultant for the Fulton County Public Defender's Office Conflict Unit — a position Mr. Woodard created out of a recognized need, bridging attorneys and the young people they represent for stronger, more human sentencing presentations.
- Justice-involved young person
- Returning citizen
- Mentor
- Program creator
- Sentencing consultant
- Juvenile justice professional
- Public speaker
- Government program director
07Who We Serve
Ideal clients
- School districts and charter-school networks
- Juvenile courts and county governments
- District attorneys' offices
- Public defender offices
- Departments of juvenile justice
- Probation and reentry agencies
- Youth-serving nonprofits
- Foundations and grant-funded initiatives
- Workforce-development organizations
- Universities and research partners
- Corporate and community foundations
09Resources
Guides & tools for the work
Downloadable frameworks, worksheets, and briefs Aakeem uses with client teams — free to use and share across your organization.
Toolkit
Reentry & Diversion Planning Toolkit
Tools and templates for designing reentry pathways that connect justice-involved youth to mentoring, education, and employment.
Coming soonBrief
Violence Prevention Program Brief
A practitioner brief on evidence-informed approaches to youth violence reduction in school and community settings.
Coming soonTemplate
Grant Compliance Checklist
A compliance checklist covering reporting, data collection, and fiscal management requirements common to foundation and government grants.
Coming soonWorksheet
Mentoring Program Design Worksheet
A structured worksheet for mapping program goals, target population, activities, and outcomes to a measurable logic model.
Coming soonGuide
The Rewritten Futures Framework — Overview
A one-page summary of the four-tenet framework Aakeem uses to design mentoring, violence-prevention, and reentry programs.
Coming soon07Voices From The Field
What partners say after the work.
From juvenile justice agencies and public defender offices to nonprofits and mentoring programs, the organizations Aakeem partners with walk away with stronger structure, measurable outcomes, and a renewed sense of what's possible for the young people they serve.
He speaks with a credibility you can't manufacture. Our staff heard from someone who has lived this work on both sides of the system, and it changed how we approach our young people.
Deputy Director
Department of Juvenile Justice
Aakeem helped us move our mentoring program from a good idea to a defensible structure. Funders who used to ask 'why' now ask 'how soon can you scale.'
Program Director
Youth-Serving Nonprofit
The Rewritten Futures framework gave us a language for what we were trying to build. Our reentry plan went from aspirational to measurable in one engagement.
Reentry Coordinator
Probation Agency
As a sentencing consultant he bridged a gap our office had struggled with for years. Young clients finally had someone who could translate their story into something the court could hear.
Assistant Public Defender
Fulton County Conflict Unit
We brought Aakeem in to train our mentors and he restructured the entire cohort model. Six months in, our retention is up and our incident reports are down.
Mentoring Program Manager
Community-Based Nonprofit
The curriculum is grounded, culturally responsive, and built for the realities of court-involved youth. Our facilitators run it with confidence because it was designed by someone who understands the population.
Court Programs Liaison
Juvenile Court System
09Field Notes
Perspectives on juvenile justice & trauma-informed practice.
All ArticlesFFS
Mentoring
From 6 Schools to 23: What Scaling a Mentoring Program Actually Taught Me
Growing Reach inside the Fulton County District Attorney's Office was not a story of more staff. It was a story of better architecture — and a few hard lessons about what scales and what does not.
October 2, 2026
FFS
Trauma-Informed Care
Why Trauma-Informed Practice Is Not Soft on Accountability
The misconception that trauma-informed work lowers standards keeps programs stuck. Done right, it raises them — because it meets young people where they actually are.
September 18, 2026
08Scope of Interest
Tell us what you're
trying to build.
Share your sector and priorities and Aakeem will respond directly with a recommended scope — assessment, design, training, or evaluation.
Aakeem Woodard — Founder & Principal Consultant
2306 Hedgeview Road, Conyers, Georgia 30094