Women's Reentry Project
Interfaith Prison Ministry for Women is excited to be launching a new reentry initiative as a part of A Cause for Celebration, our 40th Anniversary Event. Made possible by a generous investment from the Anonymous Trust, this program builds upon 40 years of chaplaincy programs and services and 20 years of transition education, reaching beyond the prison walls and into the community to offer a safe and stable base from which women can defy the odds and prepare for and navigate new and healthier lives after incarceration.
Brief Project Vision & Scope
The Women’s Reentry Project supports justice-involved women as they prepare for and navigate life after incarceration and through community, develop the capacity, tools, and knowledge they need to forge new and better lives for themselves, their children, and families.
This Project strives to approach reentry not from a punitive stance, but rather one of providing support and encouragement as a woman establishes a life outside of prison, while simultaneously working to remove systemic barriers to successful reintegration. By providing a path to self-sufficiency, the Project will benefit not only the justice-involved woman, but the community as a whole. In so doing, supports will be put in place that increase a woman’s belief that she is going to succeed.
This Project strives to approach reentry not from a punitive stance, but rather one of providing support and encouragement as a woman establishes a life outside of prison, while simultaneously working to remove systemic barriers to successful reintegration. By providing a path to self-sufficiency, the Project will benefit not only the justice-involved woman, but the community as a whole. In so doing, supports will be put in place that increase a woman’s belief that she is going to succeed.
Program and Services
The Project pulls in components of successful, innovative reentry programs and consists of six key programmatic elements that seek to support the full spectrum of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs:
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It is the aim of the Project to not replicate existing programs, services, and community resources, but rather to leverage them while filling gaps to address the needs of the women with whom we work. The program recognizes that each woman’s specific needs are different, and so the utilization of programs and services will vary by person.
The Project will leverage IPMW's unique moral injury framework as well as components of several national and local evidence-based and trauma-informed reentry programs that have shown positive results in these areas, as well as those that offer social justice, support, reentry, and economic independence programs. The Project's 3-tiered housing model is largely based on Susan Burton's Los Angeles-based A New Way of Life Reentry Project and SAFE House Network, and the Reentry Support Circle Program that IPMW recently offered in partnership with Catholic Charities of Raleigh.
IPMW would like to thank our many partners who were instrumental in the development of this plan. Please contact us for more information.
The Project will leverage IPMW's unique moral injury framework as well as components of several national and local evidence-based and trauma-informed reentry programs that have shown positive results in these areas, as well as those that offer social justice, support, reentry, and economic independence programs. The Project's 3-tiered housing model is largely based on Susan Burton's Los Angeles-based A New Way of Life Reentry Project and SAFE House Network, and the Reentry Support Circle Program that IPMW recently offered in partnership with Catholic Charities of Raleigh.
IPMW would like to thank our many partners who were instrumental in the development of this plan. Please contact us for more information.