What We Do
A Different Approach
A New Way of Life Reentry Project promotes healing, power, and opportunity for formerly incarcerated people by taking a multifaceted approach to mitigating the effects of, and ultimately eliminating, mass incarceration.
Our Services
Housing
We provide safe housing for formerly incarcerated women, to help them get back on their feet.
Legal
We offer pro bono legal services to protect the rights of formerly incarcerated people.
Advocacy & Leadership
We work to change laws and policies through advocacy and community organizing.
Workforce Development
We help impacted individuals with education and career opportunities.
We Believe
- In building community, motivating, and centering all women.
- Every person has inherent value and holds the power of possibility and transformation within them.
- Public resources are better invested in opportunities for transformation than on prisons and punishment.
- Formerly incarcerated people must be at the forefront in creating solutions to the incarceration crisis.
- Incarceration of a family member affects the entire family and the healing process must involve the entire family.
Our Vision
We envision a world where everyone is valued and systems of oppression are eliminated.
Our Mission
Empower communities with opportunity where justice impacted women heal, excel, and lead while disrupting systems of oppression and harm.
REINTEGRATION
Successful reintegration through housing and supportive services for community reentry, family reunification, and individual healing.
CIVIL RIGHTS & DIGNITY
Defend and restore dignity, civil rights, and human rights.
SOCIAL CHANGE & TRANSFORMATION
Empower, organize, and mobilize as advocates for social change and personal transformation.
JOB PLACEMENT, TRAINING, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Champion education, training, and entrepreneurship.
Our Results
1,200+ people
have found support in our safe homes
400+ people
have been reunited with their children
3,400+ individuals
have received pro bono legal services
200+ women
have received training through our WOJO Leadership Lab
Our services cost less than 1/2
the cost of incarceration
Two Decades
of doing freedom work
