Living Classrooms – Project Serve
Living Classrooms – Project Serve
Living Classrooms provide access to more equitable education, workforce development, community safety, and health and wellness opportunities that enable individuals to achieve their aspirations and build safer, stronger, and healthier communities. Project SERVE (Service, Empowerment, Revitalization, Validation, Employment training) operates out of Living Classrooms’ Broadway Overlook Community Center. It addresses the issue of high unemployment […]
Mending Families
MENding Families is a nonprofit organization designed to provide life and recovery strategies predominately through father focus on family restructuring and reconciliation by transforming personal paradigms through social, educational and career development coaching for all people to shape more substantial legacies. The mission of MENding Families is to heal and advance families; empower men, husbands, […]
Center for Urban Families
The Center for Urban Families (CFUF) is a nonprofit working to empower individuals and families in Baltimore, Maryland, with the skills they need for long-term personal and economic success. They help their members discover and reach their full potential through a holistic, person-centered approach. They believe that everyone matters, no matter who they are or […]
Agape Ministries
Agape Ministry is part of the Episcopal Diocese of Easton. It is grounded in unconditional love with a mission to provide experiences that model healthy relationships to children whose families have been affected by incarceration. Their mission is carried out through two main events for Agape children ages 7-17, a Christmas Party and a week […]
Girl Scouts Behind Bars
Girl Scouts Beyond Bars (GSBB) is a unique program that allows girls aged 5 through 17 to build and maintain relationships with their incarcerated parents. The program also brings together girls whose families have been impacted by incarceration. Their mission is to decrease the effects of parent-child separation and rebuild bonds between parents and children. […]
Maine Prisoner Reentry Network
Maine Prisoner Re-Entry Network (MPRN) exists to reduce Maine’s recidivism rate measurably. MPRN employs a local community approach to the issues facing the formerly incarcerated and our communities. MPRN consists of 4 interconnected components. Maine Prisoner Re-Entry Network, Re-Entry Maine, Rose’s Room and R4R Mentor Training. MPRN employs a community-by-community approach, drawing organizations together around […]
Maine Statistical Analysis Center (SAC)
The Maine Statistical Analysis Center (SAC) informs policy development and improvement of practice in Maine’s criminal and juvenile justice systems. SAC conducts applied research, evaluates programs and new initiatives, and provides technical assistance, consultation and organizational development services. In addition, SAC offers experiential learning opportunities for applied justice research. It is funded by the Bureau […]
Sophia’s House
Sophia’s House is a healing place to live while learning to thrive. It is a long-term residential recovery community that supports and empowers women survivors of addiction, trafficking, and incarceration through holistic healing in a shared community. Sophia’s House provides two years of healing and housing for women who are survivors of prostitution, trafficking, prison, […]
Pharos House
Pharos House is a nonprofit residential re-entry center that assists Maine residents who have been convicted of a federal offense. At Pharos House, residents complete the final months of their sentences while reintegrating back into their communities. Their mission is to provide a safe and secure reintegration facility that effectively fosters their residents’ development towards […]
University of Maine Augusta
The University of Maine at Augusta (UMA) has provided educational services to Maine State Prison residents since 2006. Working closely with the Department of Corrections (DOC), they have expanded to four additional locations: Mountain View Correctional Facility, Bolduc Correctional Facility, Southern Maine Women’s Reentry Center, and the Maine Correctional Center. In 2020, they established the […]