Initiatives to reduce incarceration, to heal harm, and to build communities.
ABOUT US
Mission
We are an organization dedicated to creating restorative community through advocacy, in-prison programs and reentry initiatives.
Who We Are
We are a network of people building resilience and creating positive change in individuals and communities impacted by incarceration. While embracing all those who are system-impacted, we give particular focus to incarcerated youth and formerly incarcerated juvenile lifers. We provide programs that span prevention to reentry as we leverage our collective experiences, relationships, and resources to bring awareness, healing, and change full circle.
Providing a container for deep empathy alongside a message of healing, hope, and the offering of practical skills, we address trauma, substance abuse, violence, institutionalization, and shame through restorative practices. We strive to increase accountability and compassion to build new individual and community values. We collaborate to inspire collective renewal and to create solutions to generations of harm and inequity.
MEET THE TEAM
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Barbara Van Sickle
Drew Schmidt
Eric Richardson
Jon Burgess
Kristy Dinsmoor
Paul Bocanegra
PROGRAMS
Our circle of healing starts with self-discovery and leadership building with incarcerated youth and adults in our prison programs. Our goal is to encourage our participants to step more fully into who they want to be against a backdrop of a new understanding of their journey. We follow them throughout their incarceration and invite them to continue working with us through our Reentry Collective when they rejoin the outside community.
Our Reentry Collective provides welcoming support for each person’s continuing passage to self-discovery. We provide a safe space for our members as they transition home. Those members of the Reentry Collective who wish to work with our Restore program, to provide guidance and preventative education to youth, have the opportunity to do so. In this light, we come full circle as those who have been through the system dedicate themselves to serving those living through the same circumstances they did, but with the opportunity for a different outcome.
GET INVOLVED
There are several ways you can contribute. Join the effort by making a donation. As a nonprofit, your donation is 100% tax deductible! We also welcome professional support if you have a skill you'd like to volunteer and we continually seek logistical support for our reentry population. Look at our job postings, internships, and volunteer opportunities to see where you fit in. Follow us on Facebook, like our page, and spread the word.
