
Earn your spot. Choose your mission.
OBF Missions: A Call to Action
When you step into Operation Break Free, you’re not just here for yourself—you’re here to build something bigger, alongside people who know what it means to fight for more.
But here’s the truth: You’ve already been preparing.
Every hardship you’ve endured, every battle you’ve fought—it’s shaped you into who you are today. Your experience is your strength. That’s why missions aren’t assigned—they’re chosen by each hub, shaped by the strengths, experiences, and passions of its members.
Hubs can dedicate themselves to one mission long-term or take on different missions each semester. There’s also room to define new missions if none fully capture the challenges your hub is ready to take on. The goal is the same across every hub: to create real change, to take action, and to empower others to break free.
With the right people beside you, no fight is too big to take on.
This is where you turn your struggles into action. This is where your hub leads the way. This is where you break free.

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
THe Missions of Operation Break Free
Our missions highlight real-world challenges and opportunities for growth. They serve as examples for hubs to spark ideas and guide their own initiatives. These missions remind us that our struggles are the foundation of our strength, and that together we can create change.
Each mission targets a real enemy—a force that destroys lives, limits potential, and must be defeated.
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🔻 THE ENEMY: Generational cycles of trauma, addiction, violence, and poverty.
🔹 YOUR MISSION: Disrupt cycles of trauma, addiction, violence, and poverty by building long-term solutions that empower individuals to reclaim their future.Ways to Get in the Fight:
✅ Mentor and guide those at risk of repeating destructive cycles.Become a mentor for youth or young adults who lack positive role models, helping them see a different future for themselves.
Support individuals recently released from incarceration, rehab, or foster care to navigate the challenges of reintegration.
If you’re a teacher, counselor, or coach, incorporate leadership and personal growth into your interactions with students or clients.
✅ Create spaces for healing and breaking generational patterns.
Host discussions or support groups where people can openly talk about breaking out of dysfunctional family cycles.
Organize workshops that equip individuals with coping mechanisms, financial literacy, or career development skills.
Encourage and support therapy, counseling, or community-based programs that address trauma and emotional well-being.
✅ Develop real-world solutions to economic and social barriers.
If you’re in business, law, or social services, help create employment or housing opportunities for those breaking out of adversity.
Advocate for policy changes that provide second chances—such as criminal justice reform, better access to mental health services, or affordable education.
Support local efforts that provide job training, scholarships, or skill-building for underserved communities.
✅ Build resilience-focused leadership and life skills training.
Teach self-discipline, goal-setting, and decision-making to those struggling to escape survival mode.
Create or join programs that focus on emotional intelligence, financial literacy, or career planning.
Use your own experiences to inspire and educate others on how to move from survival to leadership.
✅ Be the example—rewrite the story of what’s possible.
Show your family, friends, and community that breaking free from generational cycles is possible.
Commit to personal growth and accountability so that you can lead by example.
Use your voice, platform, or career to challenge the idea that people from adversity are destined to fail.
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🔻 THE ENEMY: Living in survival mode—mental illness, emotional chaos, and a lack of self-mastery.
🔹 YOUR MISSION: Help people take control of their own mind, body, and habits—so they can rise from their past and rebuild their lives with unshakable discipline.Ways to Get in the Fight:
✅ Promote post-traumatic growth and self-mastery.Shift the narrative from “just getting by” to using adversity as a foundation for strength.
Help others embrace challenge as an opportunity to develop resilience rather than letting hardship define them.
Encourage self-discipline as a tool for personal transformation—not just as a means to suppress emotions.
✅ Build a peer-driven mental resilience network.
Create a space where people can develop mental resilience through mutual support, accountability, and mentorship.
Organize structured check-ins where people hold each other accountable for personal growth, physical wellness, and mindset shifts.
Form discussion groups where people can share strategies on overcoming setbacks without toxic masculinity or false positivity.
✅ Make mental and physical strength training accessible.
Lead or participate in fitness-based meetups that emphasize both mental and physical resilience.
Offer practical, no-BS advice on emotional regulation, stress management, and structured goal-setting.
Connect people with resources—whether it’s therapy, coaching, or support groups—to ensure no one has to figure it out alone.
✅ Introduce an action-based approach to mental health.
Advocate for mental fitness as something that requires daily training, just like physical fitness.
Develop workshops or resources that emphasize structured routines, mindset shifts, and habit-building.
Encourage individuals to take control of their progress while recognizing when professional help is necessary.
✅ Challenge the extremes—break the cycle of avoidance and false toughness.
Reject the idea that “toughness” means ignoring struggles or avoiding emotions.
Encourage people to face their past head-on, not through numbing or avoidance, but through growth and accountability.
Promote a balance between discipline and self-compassion—mental strength isn’t about pretending pain doesn’t exist, but about using it to fuel transformation.
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🔻 THE ENEMY: Cycles of violence, street wars, and broken homes.
🔹 YOUR MISSION: Stop violence at the root by replacing destruction with discipline, leadership, and real accountability.Ways to Get in the Fight:
✅ Educate others on conflict resolution techniques that prevent violence in common situations.
Teach de-escalation strategies to help people handle conflicts without resorting to aggression.
Work with schools or community groups to introduce conflict resolution workshops.
Apply these skills in your own personal relationships, at work, or in your neighborhood.
✅ Support community leaders in mentoring at-promise youth away from violence.
Become a mentor for youth who lack positive role models, whether through a formal program or informal guidance.
Partner with local schools, youth programs, or juvenile justice initiatives to create opportunities for mentorship.
If you’re an educator, coach, or counselor, integrate leadership and resilience-building into your work.
✅ Host family-strengthening events that aim to disrupt the path to dysfunction.
Organize events that promote healthy family relationships, such as parenting classes or family game nights.
Help create safe spaces where families can access support, resources, and guidance.
If you work in counseling, therapy, or social services, find ways to bring family-based healing into your practice.
✅ Advocate for policies and programs that reduce violence at the systemic level.
Support initiatives that address the root causes of violence, such as poverty, education gaps, and lack of opportunity.
Get involved in local policy discussions or community safety initiatives.
Use your platform—whether in business, media, or education—to shift the narrative around violence prevention.
✅ Strengthen your own personal discipline and leadership to break cycles of violence from within.
Work on personal growth by developing emotional intelligence, self-discipline, and leadership skills.
Be the example in your home, workplace, and social circles by demonstrating accountability and resilience.
Train in martial arts, fitness, or mindfulness practices that reinforce discipline, control, and respect.
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🔻 THE ENEMY: The digital divide—lack of access to technology, digital literacy, and tech-driven opportunities that keep people locked out of economic mobility and modern success. While wealthier communities are advancing in AI, coding, and tech innovation, marginalized communities are left struggling with outdated skills, limited resources, and no pathway to compete in a digital world.
🔹 YOUR MISSION: Ensure that technology is a tool for empowerment, not a barrier. Bridge the digital divide by providing the skills, tools, and opportunities needed for people to access high-paying jobs, entrepreneurship, and digital self-sufficiency.
Ways to Get in the Fight:
✅ Make Tech Education & Digital Literacy Accessible to Everyone.
Host free or low-cost tech literacy bootcamps to teach people basic digital skills, cybersecurity, and online financial management.
Provide training programs on coding, data analysis, and emerging tech fields like AI & blockchain.
Offer workshops on digital communication, job applications, and remote work strategies for career advancement.
✅ Turn Technology Into a Weapon for Economic & Career Growth.
Build job-readiness pipelines that connect people with tech certifications, remote work, and freelance opportunities.
Partner with businesses to provide internships and hands-on experience in tech-driven industries.
Teach people how to leverage social media, e-commerce, and digital marketing to build businesses or personal brands.
✅ Ensure Everyone Has Access to the Tools They Need to Succeed.
Create community technology hubs that provide free access to computers, software, and internet resources.
Advocate for policies that make Wi-Fi, laptops, and digital resources more affordable for low-income individuals.
Partner with tech companies to donate refurbished devices and software licenses to underserved communities.
✅ Bridge the Gap Between Tech & Traditional Industries.
Train blue-collar workers, small business owners, and nonprofit leaders on using technology to grow and scale their operations.
Help individuals in non-tech fields integrate digital skills into their work—whether it’s using AI for productivity, learning digital bookkeeping, or transitioning to online services.
Encourage innovation in marginalized communities by supporting tech-based problem-solving initiatives.
✅ Empower Communities to Compete & Lead in the Digital Economy.
Develop mentorship programs where tech professionals guide and support people breaking into the field.
Launch “Tech for Social Good” initiatives where participants use digital tools to solve community problems.
Build pathways for underrepresented individuals to enter high-paying tech careers through specialized training, coaching, and career navigation support.
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🔻 THE ENEMY: Financial dependence, debt, and poverty traps.
🔹 YOUR MISSION: Help people break free from survival mode by equipping them with the tools to build wealth, achieve financial independence, and take ownership of their future.Ways to Get in the Fight:
✅ Break the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle with financial resilience programs.Teach practical financial literacy—budgeting, credit repair, and debt management strategies that actually work.
Organize community workshops on breaking generational money habits that keep people trapped in financial instability.
Connect people with accessible resources, from free financial coaching to credit-building programs.
✅ Empower the workforce with skills that lead to financial freedom.
Offer guidance on career advancement, salary negotiation, and leveraging skills for higher-paying opportunities.
Support individuals in transitioning from low-wage jobs to sustainable careers through skill-building, networking, and mentorship.
Teach side hustle and freelancing strategies to help people create additional income streams.
✅ Create pathways to entrepreneurship for those ready to build.
Host business incubator programs to help aspiring entrepreneurs launch and sustain their own ventures.
Offer mentorship from successful entrepreneurs who broke out of financial struggle.
Help people navigate business funding, from grants to low-barrier startup loans.
✅ Demystify investing, homeownership, and generational wealth-building.
Make investing and asset-building accessible to those who were never taught about it.
Offer workshops on homeownership, real estate investing, and retirement planning for first-generation wealth builders.
Teach people how to break free from financial dependence and make money work for them instead of just working for money.
✅ Challenge the system—turn financial power into community power.
Advocate for financial literacy to be a core part of education in underserved communities.
Create a support network where people help each other navigate the financial system—whether it’s home-buying, taxes, or funding opportunities.
Encourage reinvestment in local communities by building businesses, supporting small enterprises, and creating job opportunities.
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🔻 THE ENEMY: Isolation, loneliness, and a lack of strong brotherhood/sisterhood.
🔹 YOUR MISSION: Strengthen community bonds, create accountability networks, and ensure no one fights their battles alone.Ways to Get in the Fight:
✅ Forge brotherhoods and sisterhoods that stand the test of time.Establish mentorship circles where people uplift, guide, and hold each other accountable.
Pair individuals with mentors or partners who have walked similar paths and can offer real guidance.
Cultivate a culture where showing up for each other is not just encouraged—it’s expected.
✅ Build a culture of accountability and shared growth.
Organize small “accountability squads” that check in on each other’s goals—whether it’s fitness, financial growth, or personal development.
Develop structured check-ins (weekly calls, monthly meetups) where members push each other to stay on their path.
Encourage shared commitments, such as training for an event, learning a new skill, or launching a project together.
✅ Create community-led initiatives that serve and strengthen.
Launch local service projects where members give back through mentorship, advocacy, and leadership.
Organize group challenges that push individuals beyond their comfort zones while fostering deep bonds.
Support community members in achieving their personal missions, whether it’s running a workshop, hosting a leadership event, or starting a movement.
✅ Develop spaces where people belong—not just attend.
Foster in-person and digital communities that allow members to connect, share insights, and support each other.
Create traditions, rites of passage, and unique experiences that reinforce shared identity and values.
Ensure that every person who joins feels like they’ve stepped into a family, not just another group or program.
✅ Make community strength a priority, not an afterthought.
Actively seek out and include those who feel lost, disconnected, or lacking support.
Teach skills that enhance relationships—communication, emotional intelligence, and leadership within groups.
Shift the culture from individual success to collective success—when one wins, we all win.
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🔻 THE ENEMY: A failing system that keeps people trapped in survival mode instead of empowering them.
🔹 YOUR MISSION: Expose what’s broken. Transform reactive, bureaucratic models into proactive, empowerment-driven solutions.Ways to Get in the Fight:
✅ Challenge toxic workplace cultures that silence, exhaust, or suppress people.Educate employees on how to advocate for themselves and create change within rigid systems.
Work with leaders to replace fear-based management with empowerment-driven leadership.
Develop a support network for those navigating toxic work environments, offering strategies for survival, resistance, or exit when needed.
✅ Expose and disrupt broken systems that claim to “help” but fail to empower.
Conduct deep dives into how social services, schools, and workplaces unintentionally disempower those they serve.
Push for reforms that emphasize long-term success instead of short-term crisis management.
Equip those within these systems with the tools and strategies to challenge ineffective policies from the inside out.
✅ Replace survival-based models with empowerment-driven frameworks.
Partner with social services, nonprofits, and education institutions to design programs that create real, lasting change.
Advocate for trauma-informed, strength-based models that treat people as leaders in the making—not as cases to be managed.
Train professionals in social work, education, and corporate leadership to implement proactive, resilience-building strategies.
✅ Empower people to reclaim their autonomy within oppressive systems.
Teach individuals how to navigate, challenge, and, when necessary, break free from broken institutions.
Develop leadership training for employees stuck in toxic corporate or nonprofit structures.
Build alternative solutions that work outside traditional systems—community-driven models that succeed where institutions fail.
✅ Turn insiders into changemakers.
Support professionals in law enforcement, social work, education, and government who want to push for change within their organizations.
Help individuals become disruptors, consultants, and policy influencers who can expose and fix systemic inefficiencies.
Launch grassroots campaigns that hold organizations accountable while offering tangible solutions for reform.
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🔻 THE ENEMY: Mass incarceration—before, during, and after prison. The cycle starts long before someone is locked up and continues long after release.
🔹 YOUR MISSION: Shut down the prison pipeline before it starts and create real pathways out for those already caught in the system. Stop the system from recycling people through courts, jails, and parole by building opportunities for leadership, self-sufficiency, and power.Ways to Get in the Fight:
✅ Prevent incarceration by replacing risk factors with leadership and discipline.Launch youth mentorship programs that target individuals most at risk of being caught in the system.
Build alternative intervention programs that teach problem-solving, conflict resolution, and leadership skills as a proactive approach to crime prevention.
Partner with schools to reduce suspensions and expulsions, which are often the first step in pushing young people into the system.
✅ Expose and challenge the hidden pipelines feeding mass incarceration.
Educate communities on how laws, policing, and sentencing work—and how they’re disproportionately used to target marginalized groups.
Advocate for alternative community-driven responses to crime that reduce dependency on law enforcement and incarceration.
Support legal literacy initiatives that help people understand their rights and navigate the system before they get trapped in it.
✅ Make reentry about self-mastery, not just reintegration.
Provide high-performance mentorship focused on discipline, resilience, and self-leadership to help returning citizens rebuild their lives.
Build peer-led support networks where individuals hold each other accountable and push each other toward success.
Develop a mental resilience framework that teaches individuals how to handle adversity, rebuild their mindset, and stay focused on long-term growth.
✅ Create real economic alternatives that break the system’s hold.
Establish job-training programs that lead to high-income careers rather than survival-wage jobs.
Support entrepreneurship pipelines that help formerly incarcerated individuals launch businesses and create financial independence.
Work with companies to eliminate hiring biases against those with records and open doors to real economic opportunity.
✅ Dismantle the barriers that keep people in the system—even after they’re free.
Challenge probation and parole systems that set people up for failure rather than success.
Advocate for policy changes that restore full rights and opportunities to individuals post-incarceration.
Develop legal advocacy teams that fight for sentencing reforms and alternatives to incarceration.
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🔻 THE ENEMY: A broken education system that doesn’t prepare people for real life. Too many people leave school without the skills they actually need—financial literacy, emotional intelligence, problem-solving, and leadership—while being trained to follow orders instead of thinking critically and taking control of their future.
🔹 YOUR MISSION: Equip people with the knowledge, skills, and mindset they need to lead, adapt, and succeed in the real world. Instead of producing employees trained to follow, we produce leaders trained to solve problems, build, and take ownership of their future.Ways to Get in the Fight:
✅ Develop Real-World Training Programs That Teach Essential Life & Leadership Skills.Financial literacy bootcamps that teach real-world money management, investing, and how to break free from the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle.
Resilience & self-discipline training that prepares individuals to face adversity, make tough decisions, and develop mental toughness.
Crisis-response & problem-solving simulations that teach leadership, adaptability, and decision-making under pressure.
✅ Create Leadership & Entrepreneurial Pathways for Those Left Behind by the System.
Build entrepreneurship programs that teach people how to launch businesses, create economic independence, and break free from financial dependency.
Develop leadership academies that train young people to think critically, take initiative, and lead in their communities.
Offer career alternative pipelines for those who don’t fit the traditional college route—trades, business ownership, or innovative career pathways.
✅ Launch a Mentorship-Through-Action Program Where Learning Happens in the Field, Not Just in a Classroom.
Establish apprenticeship-style mentorships where individuals learn through hands-on experience, not outdated textbooks.
Pair aspiring leaders with real-world practitioners, business owners, and community leaders who provide guidance, not just theory.
Implement leadership-in-action projects where participants solve real problems in their communities instead of just studying hypothetical solutions.
✅ Transform Education by Advocating for Systemic Reform & Alternative Learning Models.
Push for policy changes that prioritize financial literacy, leadership, and mental resilience in school curriculums.
Challenge outdated education models by promoting alternative learning environments such as hands-on training schools, mentorship-based education, and problem-solving academies.
Work with educators and community leaders to design curriculums that teach people how to lead, adapt, and thrive—not just how to pass standardized tests.
✅ Ensure Education is Built for Life, Not Just for Work.
Remove the stigma around alternative education paths and redefine success beyond college degrees.
Integrate practical life skills training into every learning experience, from personal finance to conflict resolution.
Build a lifelong learning culture where education doesn’t stop after school but continues through mentorship, community engagement, and leadership training.
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🔻 THE ENEMY: Limited access to fitness, wellness, and health education for underserved communities.
🔹 YOUR MISSION: Ensure everyone—no matter their background—has access to health, fitness, and mental wellness resources that set them up for long-term success.Ways to Get in the Fight:
✅ Make high-quality health & fitness resources available to those who need them most.Advocate for affordable mental health care, gym access, and nutrition programs in marginalized communities.
Partner with local organizations to bring free fitness & wellness workshops to schools, shelters, and at-risk groups.
✅ Turn fitness into a tool for breaking cycles of poverty and struggle.
Create career pathways for people in low-income communities to become trainers, wellness coaches, or movement therapists.
Provide training and certifications for jobs in health, fitness, and mental wellness industries.
✅ Use movement, fitness, and nutrition to improve mental health.
Organize community-driven fitness challenges to foster connection and self-improvement.
Provide nutrition education and meal access programs for communities that struggle with food insecurity.
✅ Break cultural & financial barriers that keep people from prioritizing their health.
Provide low-cost or free wellness programs for individuals facing economic hardship.
Shift the perception that fitness and wellness are luxuries—instead, make them seen as essential tools for thriving.
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🔻 THE ENEMY: The cycle of “one and done” leadership—where progress dies the moment the leader steps away. How many times have you seen people rise out of adversity, only to leave everyone else behind? Communities that rebuild, only to collapse again. Youth programs that inspire, only to disappear when funding dries up. Families that fight to break free, only for the next generation to fall into the same traps. If leadership doesn’t last, we aren’t winning.
🔹 YOUR MISSION: Make sure your impact doesn’t vanish when you step away. Build something bigger than yourself. A movement, a system, a legacy that doesn’t just inspire change—but keeps growing, keeps breaking cycles, and keeps elevating people for generations to come.Ways to Get in the Fight:
✅ Turn personal success into shared success.If you’ve overcome adversity, don’t just move on—help others rise too.
Offer to mentor someone at work, in school, or in your community.
Share the knowledge, lessons, and resources that helped you break free.
If you’re the first in your family to achieve something—don’t be the last.
✅ Create a mentorship pipeline that ensures leadership continues.
Establish a cohort-to-cohort mentorship model where every person trained is responsible for guiding the next.
Develop leadership incubators where emerging changemakers learn, teach, and pass down knowledge.
Implement structured "train-the-trainer" models that ensure skills, values, and missions keep growing over time.
✅ Build long-term community-driven initiatives that don’t fade out.
Develop local movements that are self-sustaining, not dependent on a single leader.
Stop making change dependent on one leader—create structures that outlive individuals.
Help form local accountability groups that keep movements strong and leaders engaged.
Establish community hubs where people train, connect, and build legacies together.
✅ Pass down knowledge, skills, and impact through structured legacy projects.
Launch a Living Archive Initiative, documenting and passing down strategies, lessons, and tactics that work.
Organize intergenerational leadership forums where seasoned leaders pass the torch.
Create a digital resource bank of playbooks, guides, and leadership frameworks that future changemakers can use so they aren’t starting from scratch.
✅ Institutionalize change so it doesn’t disappear.
Work with schools, businesses, and policymakers to ensure leadership training is built into education and career development.
Push for policy reforms that make leadership pipelines a permanent part of community growth.
Advocate for systemic changes that make long-term impact the default, not the exception.
✅ Turn leadership into a movement, not a moment.
Stop relying on charismatic individuals—create a culture where everyone takes ownership.
Shift from temporary leadership programs to lifelong leadership ecosystems.
Ensure that every person who breaks free brings others with them—and never lets the cycle restart.
