Launching in September 2021, TRP Academy is a joint partnership between Positive Directions Equals Change, San Francisco Adult Probation and San Francisco Community Assessment & Services Center, providing treatment, recovery and prevention for justice-involved men. This TTC and transitional housing program offers residents space to rehabilitate, learn prosocial behaviors and develop a support network for lifelong recovery.

At a September 9 press event announcing the opening of TRP Academy, San Francisco Adult Probation Department Reentry Division Director Steve Adami tweeted, “This demonstrates what is possible when city leaders listen to the community - those of us who have been to prison having been advocating for this for years!”

To help residents progress through each phase of the Positive Directions Equals Change curriculum, TRP Academy needed a partner to help them convert the historic Abby Hotel into a space for recovery and growth. For that, they turned to custom manufacturer Morgan Li.

Already known for its 2019 work with Graduate Hotels and the Lebron James Family Foundation on the foundation’s I PROMISE Village, the Morgan Li team was equipped to handle and more than happy to take on this great cause.

To transform the 59-room hotel into a transitional housing facility, community area, and living space, Morgan Li provided design and project management support to reimagine the space and lead the renovation. Chief Creative Officer Tery Young worked with the academy to install efficient private bathrooms for each guestroom in the historic hotel, while providing additional leadership on the creation of the shared community space and kitchen.

“As an active member of the San Francisco community, I was ecstatic to have this opportunity to work with the city and the Positive Directions Equals Change team to transform this space,” said Tery R. Young, Chief Creative Officer and Hospitality Lead at Morgan Li. “It’s an honor to provide furniture and more to help TRP Academy create positive change for our city’s justice-involved community.”

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About Morgan Li

Bring us your wildest designs. Your boldest plans. We want to see them, engineer them and build them. And more. For over 75 years, the Morgan Li team has specialized in taking our retail and hospitality clients’ plans from concept to rollout, matching specifications and smashing expectations. Headquartered in Chicago Heights, Illinois, Morgan Li combines 600,000 square feet of domestic production space with 3.2 million additional square feet of global manufacturing capabilities to combine wood, metal and graphics however you see fit. To learn more about Morgan Li, head to www.morganli.com or follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn.

About TRP Academy

Positive Directions TRP Academy is a culturally responsive, peer-led, abstinence-based, therapeutic teaching community (TTC) and transitional housing program. The mutual self-help community has a recovery orientation, focusing on whole-person care and overall lifestyle changes, not simply abstinence from drug use. ​​The TRP Academy infuses a strength-based approach into the program’s culturally responsive guiding principles of Respect, Interdependence, and Accountability. 

Proactive Hospitality Solutions recently relaunched its white-label service to hotels because many accommodation establishments have had to retrench vital staff but still require their reservations, sales representation, and marketing strategies to be implemented. Proactive Hospitality Solutions' white label service offers all these services under the hotel's brand identity using dedicated staff with many years of experience. 

MD of Proactive Hospitality Solutions, Joanne Hutchinson said "as a business owner with years of experience in hospitality, I know that everything is important. Still, you can’t spend your entire budget on a single aspect of exposure in the market. Independent hotel owners also need to keep in mind that all the tactics for gaining exposure in the marketplace cannot work in isolation. Your overall strategy must be implemented right through OTAs, Sales Representation, Digital Content Marketing, to Reservations and Revenue Management. Proactive Hospitality Solutions offers turnkey hospitality services that fit seamlessly into a hotel and look like in-house assets. We take care of the strategy and implementation of the strategy while hotel owners focus on their guests’ experience, safety and comfort."

The key to proactive Hospitality Solutions services is that they blend seamlessly blend into the client's hotel operations. When the team represent the establishment in front of Tour Operators, OTAs and other stakeholders they operate under a white label and communicate as in-house professional employed by the hotel or lodge, not a third-party service provider. 

KRA is a not-for-profit membership organization which has supported the entire food service industry in the Commonwealth for more than 50 years.

On the heels of Beshear’s announcement, cities and their leaders across the state prepared for the reopening, offering modified policies to both support the industry and enhance safety protocols. On Tuesday, May 12, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer announced several regulatory changes, including expedited, no-fee applications for outdoor dining. Roof also noted a statewide effort, led by Jefferstown Mayor Bill Dieruf, for mayors to issue executive orders to make it easier for restaurants to expand outdoors.

“Over several weeks now, we’ve seen cities, their leaders, and citizens get creative in how they can support our restaurateurs. It’s been very inspiring,” said Roof. “Restaurants are an important part of bringing people together and that hasn’t changed just because of COVID-19. We hope and expect we will see the ingenuity continue as we prep for next week and beyond.”

Collectively, restaurants are the second-largest private employer in Kentucky. To support this critical industry, KRA has suspended membership dues and has partnered with Fleur de Lis Communications on the “Welcome Forward” campaign, designed to build public confidence and support in advance of the May 22 opening day. The first step in that campaign, a public service announcement, can be viewed