The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

Housingarc currently has two housing sites, "lorena and "magnolia" that serve community members in need of stable, safe, and dignified housing. Arc can serve 22 residents at magnolia and 36 residents at lorena.. The on-site staffing model at each of arc's two housing sites in los angeles ensures supportive service delivery such as life skills development to promote self-sufficiency and resilience among members. Life coaches ensure that all residents are either in school or working part-time and saving a portion of their income.

Inside programmingour hope and redemption team, established in 2017, is a group of formerly incarcerated lifers who go back into California state prisons, sacramento and yolo county jails, and juvenile detention facilities to provide ongoing programming, rehabilitative services, and wraparound reentry support and case management to incarcerated individuals.our team employs a credible messenger approach to all our rehabilitative programming, serving ~5,000 people annually through criminals and gang members anonymous, board parole hearing workshops, and youth offender program mentorship groups that help individuals develop prosocial behaviors and create plans for successful reentry.

Membership servicesarc serves as a support network for current and formerly incarcerated men and women. Arc's programming encompasses hope and redemption programming inside prisons, mentoring at youth facilities, supportive housing at two locations in los angeles, employment training and employment placement support, and a broad range of member-based services to a network of more than 3000 formerly incarcerated individuals. Through membership support individuals receive and offer support, connect to services, and develop positive social networks.ride homethe ride home program provides free, safe, and friendly transportation directly from The carceral facility to an approved transitional housing program. In The last year The ride home program has brought home more than 725 people upon release. Experienced arc reentry counselors and drivers are formerly incarcerated themselves, so they offer returning citizens an opportunity to spend time with a peer who's been through a similar experience and a practical and realistic plan for reentry. We keep in touch with returning citizens for follow-up counseling and support in becoming arc members. Our mission is to counsel returning citizens on how to approach and overcome obstacles ahead, share a first meal, buy fresh clothing and toiletries together, bring them to a safe home, and introduce them to a changed world.

Workforce and education arc offers career readiness, a range of internship opportunities, and scholarship supports for transitional age members. A key vocational training initiative is our los angeles pre-apprenticeship readiness program, an 11-week cross-sector partnership between The los angeles unified school district (lausd), The los angeles federation of labor, and The la/oc building trades. All program participants are paid stipends during cohort training prior to being placed directly in union apprenticeships. We have served over 413 participants (adult and tay) thus far, with a 75% graduation rate and 82% placement rate of graduates.

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