Our Programs: Transforming Transition
Coming Home
Building the Beloved Community
We help people as they reintegrate into society and become engaged members of the community. Coming Home brings together a cohort of formerly incarcerated participants and volunteers from the larger community for weekly meals and sessions. Workshops focus on skill building and personal development activities that reinforce restorative dialogue, goal setting, critical thinking, understanding, healthy relationships, forgiveness, networking, building resilience, and overcoming trauma.
“Welcome to Coming Home”
Our Restorative Practices are Rooted in Research
The Beck Institute for Religion and Poverty at Fordham University Graduate School of Social Services has researched the Coming Home program and found statistically significant reduction in trauma scores and increased coping skills.
Education Outreach Program (EOP)
Advocating for Empowerment
EOP is an empowerment program created to help people experiencing homelessness. It includes life skills classes, mentoring, and storytelling. EOP was originally a program of Catholic Charities and Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing. Today, many of the people who are in shelters or on the streets participate in our Education Outreach Program.
Responsive to community needs, we offer programming addressing the whole person:
Credible messenger training and support
Health, wellness, and mental fitness:
Yoga
Communi-teas
Arts workshops
Healing of Memories®
Stop the Bleed® workshop
Positive Intelligence®
Advocacy days
Conversations toward understanding and unity