Projects

The Ready 4 Work Program is a comprehensive 4-week Job Readiness/ Job Placement Program. It is held on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10 AM-4 PM. The program provides each participant with a $9.50/hr -training wage. The participants are provided with a job coach and job placement with one of our employer partners. Clients will […]

(TJ) seeks to provide people who expericence violence with immediate safety and long-term healing and reparations while holding people who commit violence accountable within and by their communities. Read more here

Many of our residents return to the District after spending years in faraway federal prisons where they are disconnected from their families and communities. According to the most recent count, we have approximately 67,000 returning citizens in the District. They are our neighbors, our coworkers, and the parents of our children. Most want to move

The Neighborhood Engagement Achieves Results (NEAR) Act was passed by the Council of the District of Columbia in March 2016 in response to an increase in homicides the previous year. Its goal was to reduce violence in the District, but instead of perpetuating broken and ineffective “war on drugs”-style methods, it uses a community-based public

Reintegration Support Circles What it is: Reintegration support circles are a way to have a network of people who care about your success come together to support your transition home. Your circle will build stronger relationships, identify issues and solutions, write a plan and follow up on the plan so that everyone in the circle

The National Reentry Network for Returning Citizens Peer 2 Peer Program is providing a comprehensive mentoring approach. Our mentoring is a formal relationship with mutually agreed-upon goals defined by both parties.Through Peer 2 Peer mentoring relationships, we guide the returning citizen toward stability, a change in behavior and a change in thinking. The returning citizen,

We are in the process of building a membership platform that will serve our returning citizens Key – Copy (2) and their families over the long term. We want to be there for our returned citizens community no matter the challenges and obstacles. Through our membership platform we will be able to offer a consistent

The institute has two initiatives targeted to help returning citizens reenter the job market. The first is the Green Building Academy which focuses on green cleaning techniques. The other is the Green Business Academy which focuses on the business side of green cleaning services. The Institute’s ultimate goal is to reduce recidivism through the removal

Reclaim the Vote DC is created to educate and organize people to use the power of the vote to bring ReClaim_DC_Vote – Copyabout tangible beneficial change to their lives and communities. We are committed to mobilizing people who have been historically oppressed, marginalized, and ignored by the political structure. Reclaim the Vote DC campaign is