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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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The Homecoming Project’s goal for every participant is a healthy, community-orientated, and self-supported lifestyle. Homecoming helps with that, providing each participant with six months of free housing, which enables participants to focus on their long-term goals. But it’s not just housing support that’s important during these six months. When participants secure a stable source of… Continue Reading More than just housing: Income is also a key milestone for participants
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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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Does that badge make you blind to the pain that’s deeply bound Embedded in our DNA from our ancestors, WE transgress the transgressors They undressed the best dressers and deflowered our queens The meaning of “we” is more than you and me Blue is the color of our skin, and red is the blood See… Continue Reading If I could tell a cop one thing
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In the city where I grew up, police brutality was an issue rarely discussed because it was common and something that often happened to my closest friends and me. Parlier, California, is a poverty-stricken Hispanic community. In this small town, gang violence was a common occurrence and police encounters were a must. It was well… Continue Reading Police were enemies of homeboys in California town
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I imagined things from the standpoint of invincibility in my youth. Growing up in the ghetto encouraged me to embrace a “survival of the fittest” mentality without ever having read Darwin. As a child I understood the ghetto as an opposing force that kept my mother on her knees in prayer — sweating, struggling and… Continue Reading ‘Insatiable darkness’: A Black son’s experience with the ‘just-us’ system
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From the Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge by Enterprise Community Partners and Wells Fargo We’re thrilled to announce that Impact Justice’s Homecoming Project has been selected as one of six winners among nearly 900 applicants from Enterprise Community Partners and Wells Fargo as part of the Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge! This two-year, $2.5 million award will… Continue Reading The Homecoming Project receives $2.5 million award
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In the 15 years, three months, and eight days I was imprisoned, I never thought correctional officers could offer human kindness. Even as a freed woman visiting California’s prison facilities, I didn’t realize there could be another way than a system focused solely on punishment, delivered in large part by humiliating people. Then earlier this… Continue Reading Building Justice through Humanity: How Scandinavia’s prisons changed me
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