Thresholds to Life is a program developed by psychiatrist Milton Burglass for training prison inmates and offenders on probation about decision making, problem solving, and life planning. It is operated by volunteers in 30 locations in the United States.
The Thresholds to Life collection includes records of the program in Greenfield, Mass., and contains newsletters, minutes, by-laws, treasurer's reports, correspondence, news clippings, brochures, and lists of volunteers, board members, and staff.
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Thresholds to Life is a training program for decision making, problem solving, and life planning taught by volunteers to prison inmates and offenders on probation in 30 locations in the United States. Developed and coordinated by the non-profit organization Decisions, Inc., the curriculum was initially developed in 1965 by Milton Burglass, a psychiatrist who had served time in a New Orleans prison for stock fraud.
The Thresholds to Life collection includes records of the program in Greenfield, Mass., and contains newsletters, minutes, by-laws, treasurer's reports, correspondence, news clippings, brochures, and lists of volunteers, board members, and staff.
The collection is open for research.
Acquired from James Craig, 1987, 1991.
Processed by Linda Seidman, May 1991.
Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Cite as: Thresholds to Life Records (MS 156). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
