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.
Health and Wellness
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.
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 Mediation DC
Community Mediation DC (CMDC) envisions a Washington, DC where mediation is used to build strong and peaceful communities, and every DC resident has access to high-quality, collaborative conflict resolution services.
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.
DC Project Connect
The mission of DC Project Connect is to provide crisis intervention and information resources to families affected by incarceration. DC Project Connect supports reentry initiatives that strengthen families.
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.
Insight on the Inside
Insight on the Inside shares mindfulness practices to inspire and empower the incarcerated, returning citizens, people transitioning from homelessness, and all affected by poverty, aging and illness.
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.
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.
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.