National Resource Toolkit: Care for our Justice Impacted Community

Safety is not created through punishment. Safety is created when people have access to opportunity, stability, dignity, and a real path forward.

For justice-impacted Black women and communities, decarceration is not only a policy demand, it is a public health, economic, and family stability issue. When women return home, they need more than survival support. They need pathways that lead to long-term economic security, healing, and belonging.

Through our resources, we are strengthening the bridge between justice and opportunity, ensuring that Black women returning home are met not with barriers, but with pathways.

This toolkit centers resources that make that possible.

FEATURED RESOURCE

STRIVE

A national workforce development organization offering tuition-free job training, certifications, and lifetime career coaching. Its Fresh Start reentry program is specifically designed for justice-impacted individuals and those returning from incarceration. The program combines foundational job readiness training with hands-on skills development in high-demand industries including healthcare, logistics, and customer service. Participants also receive long-term career coaching and employer placement support, ensuring they are not only trained but connected to real opportunities for economic stability. STRIVE’s model is designed to support sustained reintegration by addressing employment as a core factor in safety, dignity, and long-term success.

Women’s Prison Association

The Women’s Prison Association is one of the oldest organizations in the United States dedicated to supporting women impacted by incarceration. Its work focuses on providing reentry services, housing support, family reunification assistance, and advocacy for system-involved women. WPA centers the unique needs of women navigating incarceration and reentry, recognizing the intersection of gender, poverty, trauma, and systemic inequality. Their programs are designed to support long-term stability by addressing both immediate needs and structural barriers that impact successful reintegration.

National Reentry Resource Center

The National Reentry Resource Center serves as a national hub for reentry support, offering training, technical assistance, research, and resources for individuals and organizations working in the reentry space. It supports communities in reducing recidivism and improving outcomes for people returning from incarceration by strengthening local systems of care and coordination. The center also provides tools for policy development and program design, making it a valuable resource for organizations working to build more effective and humane reentry systems.

The NRRC also provides a national reentry helpline for support, connection, and guidance for individuals, families, and practitioners navigating reentry services.

National Reentry Resource Center Helpline 1.844.916.2577. Available 24/7.

Black and Pink

Description Black and Pink is a national abolitionist organization focused on supporting incarcerated and formerly incarcerated LGBTQ plus people. Their work includes pen pal programs, mutual aid support, advocacy, and leadership development. The organization centers liberation, dignity, and collective care while actively challenging the prison industrial complex. Black and Pink also amplifies the voices of incarcerated people, ensuring that those most impacted by the system are leading conversations about justice, safety, and reform.

Reentry Map National Resource Directory

Reentry Map is a free, nationwide search tool that helps individuals and families quickly locate reentry support services based on their specific needs and location. It includes thousands of verified resources across employment, housing, food access, healthcare, mental health services, substance use treatment, legal aid, transportation assistance, education programs, and faith-based support.

What makes Reentry Map especially powerful is its simplicity and accessibility. It functions like a real-time navigation system for reentry, allowing users to search by state, city, or ZIP code and immediately identify services closest to them. This reduces one of the biggest barriers in reentry work which is not knowing where to start or what exists in a given community.

For justice-impacted Black women, this tool can serve as an immediate entry point into stability. It supports both urgent needs and long-term planning by connecting people to local systems of care, employment pathways, and supportive community programs.

Reentry Map strengthens our Safety and Decarceration vision by making resources visible, searchable, and usable in real time, helping ensure that no woman has to navigate reentry alone.

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