There are the 215,000 women currently incarcerated in the United States, and millions more entangled in the criminal justice system. Over the last three decades, the number of women imprisoned has increased 750 percent – double that of men. The vast majority of these women are mothers, and their crimes are non-violent. Once tagged with a criminal record, women face staggering barriers to successfully reintegrating into their families and communities.
Project Liberation provides a space for women at all stages of criminal justice involvement to feel safe, supported, empowered, and part of a community again.
Project Liberation is fiscally sponsored by Coaching The Global Village, a 501(c)(3) non-profit. All donations are tax deductible.
Three years ago, we met Jessica in a shelter with her daughter Victoria. Today, she is reunited with her son also, and living in her own apartment. In late July, she came to the Center for Social Innovation with other women who had graduated from the Spring ’18 Project Liberation cohort and they shared stories of life, and love and resilience. Myra sang a song of gratitude...and spoke of gaining the courage to go for her dream job...and Bernadette shared her renewed spirit and ability to make a choice to take a chance to make a change. … [Read More...]
This year Project Liberation helped restore dignity, self-worth, and hope to 206 women, which disrupted their pathways back to prison. With a national recidivism rate of over 50%, none of our participants have returned to prison. Research shows that a lack of personal agency, education, employment, and housing directly correlates to recidivism. We are proud to share that 100% of our participants are employed or enrolled in school, and 100% have secured permanent housing. All of these women have rewritten their stories and become more than their … [Read More...]
The driving purpose of Coaching the Global Village is to work with social change agents to use coaching to create innovative solutions to pressing global challenges. In the emerging international context new approaches to development are needed to increase sustainability. The coaching … [read more]
The world needs global warming . . . not the environmental kind, but the relational kind!!!! Every day in the news we see articles about the rapid increase of global warming and its disastrous effects on the environment. What if we begin to see a quickening of global warming in the way people, … [read more]
