Direct Support

We believe people need support for what is urgent and space to heal from what they have lived through. We provide mutual aid, reentry resource navigation, and kinship-based mental health support.

Kinship

Our kinship-based mental health support comes from how we learned to care for one another inside prison. Many of us relied on cultural practices and co-regulation to help stabilize each other through incarceration, especially when traditional clinical care was often tied to surveillance and control. Kinship became a way of caring for one another that is uniquely ours. This communal approach to healing remains the foundation of our peer work.

Reentry Resource Navigation

Finding help after incarceration can be overwhelming. Resources are often outdated or scattered across different systems. We help members find reliable information about housing, employment, healthcare, transportation, legal support, and other reentry needs. We are also building a statewide reentry resource database shaped by directly impacted people so members can find information they can actually use and trust.

Mutual Aid

Our Outside Member Mutual Aid helps with urgent, short-term needs that can quickly threaten someone’s stability, including food, transportation, housing, utilities, medication, and other medical expenses.

Our Fresh Start Funds are designed for inside members coming home from incarceration. This one-time support, along with a reentry kit, helps members cover basic needs and begin the transition home with more stability.