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.
Education & Life Skills Enhancement
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.
Criminon New Life DC
Criminon New Life DC delivers a unique evidence-based program providing individuals with life skills they can use to improve their decision-making and reverse negative life habits. This puts them in a condition to be able to successfully navigate their reentry into their families and communities and helps to avoid future recidivism.
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.
Jubilee Housing
Jubilee Housing’s mission is to build diverse, compassionate communities that create opportunities for everyone to thrive. Jubilee Housing envisions a city and a world where access to basic resources and opportunities are available to all people and where people live out these opportunities in the context of supportive 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.
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.
Voices for a Second Chance
Voices for a Second Chance (VSC) empowers justice-involved individuals with the opportunity to reengage in their communities and ultimately build better futures for themselves and their loved ones.