Reentry Action Network (RAN) Member Directory
Due to COVID-19, RAN member organizations may have changed their operating hours or services they provide. We recommend calling organizations ahead of time to learn about any changes that may have been made to their organization’s operating schedule. Looking to get involved and help returning citizens in the District amid COVID-19? Visit our events page to see what RAN is doing and how you can get involved. Please view our most current Member Directory.
Below is a listing of our members. Sort by services using the keywords below. Learn more about each member by clicking the blue button.
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.
Baltimore-Washington Conference
The mission of the Baltimore-Washington Conference is to inspire and equip local faith communities to develop disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world, so that more Transformed Lives Transform Lives.
Catholic Charities
Catholic Charities provides mentoring to men and women returning to their communities after incarceration. The goal is to help prevent returning citizens from falling back to previous mistakes by helping them find and follow a path to a new career. We do this by creating a support network centered on volunteer mentors who work closely with returning citizens. Together, Catholic Charities helps overcome big and small obstacles on route to finding a job, a safe place to live, and a community of support.
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 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.
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.
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.
Hope Foundation
The Hope Foundation provides free pre-and-post release services to men and women returning to the Washington, DC community.
House of Ruth
House of Ruth helps women, children and families in great need, with very limited resources build safe, stable lives, and achieve their highest potential.
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.
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.
Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia
Legal Aid provides free legal assistance to individuals and families who have little or no income in the areas of reentry, housing law, public benefits law, consumer law, domestic violence/family law, and immigration law.
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.
Open City Advocates
Open City Advocates works with children and young adults trapped in the juvenile justice system to elevate their voices and realize their full potential.
Project New Opportunity
Project New Opportunity (PNO) represents a promising model to address reentry, particularly reentry from federal prison. The experience to date shows the importance of the “inside- outside” connection, the efficacy of a program that attends to the adjustment from custody to community and the value of using formerly incarcerated people to guide this transition based upon their own experiences.
Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia Community Defender Division, Prisoner & Reentry Legal Services Program
PDS' mission is to provide and promote quality legal representation to indigent adults and children facing a loss of liberty in the District of Columbia, thereby protecting society's interest in the fair administration of justice. The Prisoner & Reentry Legal Services Program (PRLS) is part of the Community Defender Division at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS).
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.
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.