This project provides DC youth and adults recently released from prison with monthly educational, leadership, and professional development opportunities that foster new support systems, job skills, and the tools and confidence to fulfill their career and educational goals. We connect recently released members to the resources and programs in the community that will help them achieve their educational and career goals.
Members often return to the community eager for a fresh start, but are hindered by over 40,000 collateral consequences that impact their ability to find jobs, educational opportunities, and housing. These challenges are furthered by the deep traumas that incarceration causes. Having spent their adolescence behind bars, members' experiences returning to society is marked by an absence of opportunity.
Our variety of services gives youth and adults the opportunity to see their potential and achieve personal, career, and educational goals. One of our programs, the Job Readiness Apprenticeship, provides formerly incarcerated members with the opportunity to practice job skills such as computer literacy, reading and writing skills, public speaking, and essential workplace behavior. We also host support groups, credit building programs, access to free therapy, and a weekly writing workshop.
We will nurture and sustain a trusting relationship with formerly incarcerated DC residents to instill in youth and adults the confidence needed to pursue employment and education. We envision a DC where Black and Latine communities have abundant access to resources for healing, growth, creative expression, love, and connection. In our future, mass incarceration no longer exists.
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