We are The Other Side Academy; a self-sustaining, non-profit helping address the problems of homelessness, criminal behavior and long-term addiction through a 2.5-year residential life skills and training program for men and women. Students pay nothing to attend and the Academy does not take any government funds for operations. As our students work in our various social enterprises they become hard-working, honest and caring human beings in our peer-run, behavior-focused community.