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Coming home after years in prison is a challenge in Germany too, says television producer Johannes Wiebus. Despite Germany’s comparatively robust social safety net, people struggle to fully reintegrate. Wiebus and his production team traveled to California to learn more about the Homecoming Project’s unique housing-first approach to reentry. In a twist on Airbnb, The… Continue Reading German TV Show Features The Homecoming Project
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OAKLAND, CA – Starting January 1, 2022, daily stipends for Homecoming Project hosts will increase to $30, an increase of $5 from the $25 daily rate hosts have received up to this date. This represents a 20% increase, meaning hosts will receive a new rate of approximately $900 per month. This change will be automatically applied… Continue Reading The Homecoming Project Increases Host Stipends in 2022
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“With this restorative justice diversion program in Philadelphia, we're recreating what public safety looks like. We're changing the narrative of crime and punishment that our communities have been trapped in by addressing harm with accountability, healing, and hope” - Kempis “Ghani” Songster, Healing Futures Program Director Impact Justice is proud to announce the launch of… Continue Reading Healing Futures: Philadelphia’s new restorative justice diversion program
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What followed the police raid at the Stonewall Inn in June of 1969 is often called a riot. It’s better understood as the catalyzation of the modern movement for LGBTQIA+ liberation through resistance against police harassment and brutality. And that resistance was led by Black and Latinx trans and gay, lesbian, bisexual and other queer… Continue Reading The over-representation of LGBTQIA+ people in carceral settings
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Across the country, members of the Asian-American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community are facing a rise in racism and racist violence directed at them. However, the increase of media attention in recent weeks does not begin to account for the silence that exists surrounding centuries of violence and discrimination against AAPI communities, whose experiences are too… Continue Reading Statement from Impact Justice on violence against AAPI community
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Join Impact Justice and Hunger Free America on Jan. 19 at 12 p.m. EST for a workshop on the food in prison experience and food insecurity. This workshop will be co-hosted by Mika Weinstein and Leslie Soble of Impact Justice, discussing prison food justice and Impact Justice's recent report, "Eat Behind Bars: Ending the Hidden… Continue Reading Prison food justice is food justice: MLK serve-a-thon workshop
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Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge by Enterprise Community Partners and Wells Fargo names six winners out of nearly 900 applications from across the U.S. OAKLAND, CA – Enterprise Community Partners (Enterprise) and Wells Fargo today named Impact Justice one of the six winners of the Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge, a nationwide competition that began in January… Continue Reading Impact Justice’s Homecoming Project Receives $2.5 Million Award to Provide Innovative Reentry Housing Services to Formerly Incarcerated People
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Open your home to the Homecoming Project Have you been looking for a way to meaningfully give back? Do you have an extra room in your home? Are you in need of additional income? Apply to Become a Host Join our growing community of Homecoming hosts who are making a life-altering difference in the lives… Continue Reading Become a Host
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Advocates, policymakers, and community members across the country are racing to secure the release of as many people as possible from prisons and jails to combat the fatal spread of COVID-19 inside facilities. Upon release, people are reentering their communities in the midst of an unprecedented crisis. Securing housing and employment — a challenge under… Continue Reading From Prison to Quarantine: A virtual conversation about COVID-19 community solutions