It’s A Process
It’s A Process
It’s A Process is a nonprofit organization that stands with both justice-involved individuals and those directly connected with engaging in community outreach. Their aim is to provide assistance with both professional and daily living tasks, share tools to seek and maintain meaningful employment and/or academic endeavors. They address community involvement to help develop strategies to cultivate, nurture, and […]
Mountain Stream Meditation
Mountain Stream Meditation serves a wide community by offering various types of meditation retreats. They provide ongoing programs, including meditation groups, retreats, classes, and opportunities for community service. Mountain Stream offers a course in Meditation and Mindfulness usually two times a year in Nevada City and/or Auburn. This course is suitable for both beginning meditators […]
B.C.M.A. Foundation
BCMA (Breaking Chains Making Amends) is a nonprofit organization. They provide life-changing resources to the children and grandchildren of the incarcerated and victims of crime as well as rehabilitation services to the formerly incarcerated through mentoring and other resources. The foundation also provides a mentoring component to those currently incarcerated. Additionally, BCMA is part of a Prison […]
Redemption Village, Inc.
Redemption Village is a non-profit, faith-based ministry designed to assist the crucial needs of individuals released from incarceration, both men and women. Their aftercare program provides a residential therapeutic home environment, daily congregate meals, life skills, provide transportation, job training, behavioral management, individual and group therapy, educational enrichment, mentoring, health, nutrition and fitness classes, drug […]
Escaping Time
Escaping Time exhibits Art from U.S. Prisons and sells artworks created within prison walls nationwide. Through art, they work to change the narrative and break the stereotype of what society imagines when thinking about the incarcerated. They send Fifty percent of the proceeds of original works to the artists themselves. Interspersed throughout the exhibition are facts […]
Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts
Prisoners’ Legal Services (PLS) of Massachusetts is an anti-racist organization. Their mission is to challenge the carceral system through litigation, advocacy, client counseling, partnership with impacted individuals and communities, and outreach to policymakers and the public in order to promote the human rights of incarcerated persons and end harmful confinement. PLS helps individuals with serious […]
Inside Books Project
Inside Books Project is an Austin-based nonprofit community service volunteer organization that sends free books and educational materials to incarcerated people in Texas. Inside Books is the only books-to-incarcerated people program in Texas, where over 140,000 people are incarcerated. Inside Books Project works to promote reading, literacy, and education among incarcerated individuals and to educate […]
Pets Bring Joy
Pets Bring Joy (PBJ) is a nonprofit organization. Their mission is to expand upon their core animal rescue and adoption mission to serve the members of the community in a variety of other ways. They offer the healing therapy of animal companionship to all in our community. Through their Youth Mentoring Community Program, they offer […]
Coweta County Accountability Courts
Coweta County Accountability Courts are collaborative court programs that work to address criminal justice issues. The programs not only address addiction and mental health needs, but encourage educational growth, mandate employment and child support compliance, and work to reintegrate those who would otherwise be lost in the criminal justice system. There are various courts that provide different […]
Illinois Institute For Community Law and Affairs
Illinois Institute For Community Law and Affair’s purpose is to advocate for reform of the ineffective corrections (prisons) system in Illinois. The Institute studies issues related to corrections, identifies critical problems, studies possible solutions, drawing upon the advice and participation of incarcerated people, formerly incarcerated people, specialists in the area and other professionals and academics; […]