Services that DC-RAN provides
Below is a listing of the services that our current members offer. Each link will take you to a listing of members that provide those services.
Workforce Development & Employment
Amazing Gospel Souls, INC
Amazing Gospel Souls, INC’s mission is to provide a safe and nurturing housing environment, workforce development training, and comprehensive case management, in the effort to help returning citizens restore themselves after incarceration and become assets to their communities.
Changing Perceptions
Changing Perceptions enables returning citizens to reach their full potential, personally and professionally by delivering personal and business development opportunities that pave the way for career paths and entry into the middle class.
Collaborative Solutions for Communities
Collaborative Solutions for Communities’ (CSC) mission is to be the leading solution focus resource in building strong, sustainable families and communities through family support services, innovative training, community capacity building, economic development and social enterprise.
Community Connections
Community Connections’ mission is to provide behavioral health, residential services, and primary health care coordination for marginalized and disenfranchised women, men, youth, and children living in the District of Columbia, many of whom are coping with challenges including mental illness, addiction, and the aftermath of trauma and abuse.
Community Family Life Services
Founded in 1969, Community Family Life Services, Inc. (CFLS) is a women-focused reentry organization providing wraparound services to help families move into self-sufficiency. CFLS achieves its mission by providing short-term crisis assistance and working within the DC jail, Bureau of Prisons, women’s halfway house, and with community partners to establish connections with justice-involved women prior to their release.
Community Services Agency of the Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO, Building Futures Program Community Services Agency
Building Futures has been serving returning citizens interested in construction careers since 2007. The program offers occupational training with industry-recognized certifications, construction math and blueprint reading, job placement and wraparound services to ensure retention.
Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop
Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop uses books, creative writing, and peer support to awaken DC youth incarcerated as adults to their own potential. Through creative expression, job readiness training, and violence prevention outreach, these young poets achieve their education and career goals, and become powerful voices for change in the community.
Hope Foundation
The Hope Foundation provides free pre-and-post release services to men and women returning to the Washington, DC community.
National Reentry Network for Returning Citizens
The National Reentry Network for Returning Citizen's (NRNRC) mission is to build a strong, national network comprised of individuals returning from incarceration who support each other’s successful reintegration. NRNRC uses a client-centered approach to identify basic needs and to create a continuum of care that can address barriers to reentry, promote restorative practices, and reduce recidivism.
So Others Might Eat
SOME (So Others Might Eat) is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation's capital. SOME meets the immediate daily needs of the people they serve with food, clothing, and healthcare.
Southeast Ministry
Southeast Ministry is a grassroots social justice ministry of the Lutheran Church of the Reformation that listens to the needs of the community and develops culturally sensitive education programs that address the root causes of social problems such as poverty, illiteracy, and violence.
ULS – Disability Rights DC’s Jail and Prison Advocacy Project
Disability Rights DC’s Jail and Prison Advocacy Project (JPAP) reentry model is built on inter-agency partnerships and evidence-based practices, engaging DC adults diagnosed with serious mental illness, intellectual disabilities, and co-occurring substance use disorders four to six months prior to their release.