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We Are About Change

Not only does this program reunite families, but it strengthens communities and enhances public safety by expanding legitimate opportunities for individuals who are returning to the community.

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Providing safe housing to formerly incarcerated people in tandem with comprehensive reentry programs that focus on education, employment, and healing -- developing leaders through advocacy opportunities that support the building of equity for whole families.

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Solutions

Providing economic justice and equity for marginalized people through education and housing opportunities.

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Shared Housing

Affordable shared rooms allow for the healing process to begin before reuniting with children. It provides stability, cultural support, and confidence during the transformation from surviving to living.

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Family Housing

Affordable family units costing no more than 30% of your income; that provide a nurturing environment, continuous wrap-around family services, and peer support.

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Home Ownership

Refurbished single-family homes that are sustainable and affordable will provide equity, putting an end to generational poverty.

Supportive Services

True Beginnings maintains a network of robust partnerships to provide women with access to resources and opportunities to support their independence and self-sufficiency, promote healing, and empower them to advocate for themselves and their families. Our services are gender-responsive and trauma-informed.

  • Support Groups

  • Life Skills Workshops

  • Healing Groups

  • Public Speaking

Housing Services

True Beginnings addresses trauma in the midst of housing and job readiness, as the first order of business in assisting women through transitioning from incarceration into a productive lifestyle. We offer housing on one condition - you have to be formerly incarcerated. Housing is a right, not a privilege.

  • Divinity House Intake - Deferment and Fresh Start Housing

  • Divinity House Shared - Independent Living (One Year Clean with Recovery)

  • In-Need Services - Supplying women with the household needs to furnish their permanent homes. 

Employment - Education Guided Outcomes (E.G.O. ReEntry Project)

True Beginnings engages in local and statewide advocacy efforts that aim to eliminate harmful policies within the criminal legal system that disproportionately criminalize and incarcerate women and girls and low-income people.

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