Reentry Resources

 

Bridges Reentry is dedicated to providing resources to support formerly incarcerated women and their families with their successful reentry into society through programs like Magdalene House West, Beyond the Gates Mentoring, and other programs.


The American Civil Liberties Union

The ACLU has information on how to restore your right to vote after incarceration.


JobPath

JobPath partners with Pima Community College and other job-training programs to support students in two-year or less degree or certificate programs. JobPath provides a combination of support services to get students across the finish line and into high-wage careers.


Residential Reentry Centers (RRC)

RRC are residential programs operated under contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). The RRCs are based on a social service model, using evidence based curricula, so that the particular needs of the formerly incarcerated population can be met.


Goodwill

Besides being a resource for price-effective clothing and household items, Goodwill provides job opportunities and helps Arizonans locate job opportunities.


A New Leaf

A New Leaf provides a broad spectrum of support services to help individuals and families succeed. From basic needs to career development to budgeting, A New Leaf focuses on providing the critical skills to achieve lifelong independence. Our clients’ successes include employment, healthier lifestyles, enhanced life skills, high school diplomas / GEDs, college degrees, and self sufficiency.


Hope’s crossing

a 501(c) 3 organization, was founded in 2010 to meet the needs of women in transition from prisons, addictions, or homelessness to a life of work, family, and community. Hope’s Crossing offers job skills training, housing assistance, and, most importantly, a program of emotional support geared toward creating a new belief system that promotes whole and healthy living. Through their comprehensive approach, they give women tools for a new beginning and sustainability. Over the past five years, Hope’s Crossing has assisted hundreds of women of all ages to develop self worth-worth, personal accountability, and restoration of hope in the family. They seek to prevent substance abuse, chronic unemployment, and recidivism in order to develop that self-worth which strengthens families and improves our community.


211 Arizona

211 Arizona is a comprehensive state website that provides information on resources related to topics such as locating housing, acquiring supports for bills and food shopping, transportation, domestic violence support, and more.


AzRHA

Click here for the link to the AzRHA home page.

Click here for the link to AzRHA certified sober living homes


RePete Boutique

This is a link to the RePete Boutique. Magdalene House women volunteer to work at the boutique. The boutique gives women being released from prison an outfit. Women can do community service hours at Repete.


Behavioral Health

Copper Springs

Copper Springs provides evidence-based care for a range of mental health and addiction concerns.

Mercy Care

Mercy Care is a not-for-profit health plan available to children, adults, and seniors eligible for AHCCCS benefits.

Southwest behavioral

Southwest Behavioral & Health Services offers a variety of programs to serve the needs of their community like outpatient mental health treatment and psychiatric services.

Native American Connections

Native American Connections provides culturally appropriate behavioral health, affordable housing, and community development services.

Community Bridges

Community Bridges approaches behavioral health and addiction treatment in a holistic way.

St. Lukes behavioral health

St. Luke’s provides inpatient and outpatient care for people in need of psychiatric and chemical dependency care in Phoenix, Arizona

Potter’s house substance abuse center

Potter’s House provides outpatient mental health and substance abuse treatment for adults 18 years or older.

NAMI - National alliance of mental illness

The Nation Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) has affiliates across the United States, providing advocacy, education, and support to those affected by mental illness. They have programs, services, and literature available in Spanish.

Imagine therapy

Imagine Therapy provides individualized mental health care, as well as treats multiple mental disorders.

Counseling Resources

Terros

Terros Counseling can help navigate mental health with trained professionals delivering evidence-based treatment.

Dynamic Living

Licensed outpatient behavioral health care.

Hope Lives/vive la esperanza

Hope Lives/Vive la Esperanza promotes mental health recovery and wellness through culturally relevant services.

La Frontera Arizona

La Frontera Arizona seeks to solve community problems. They can help address behavioral health, affordable housing, children and youth, employment, crisis intervention/suicide prevention, military veterans, and community and cultural education.

Maricopa Shift

Safe, Healthy Infants and Families Thrive helping to improve the outcomes for pregnant parents, their families, and affected newborns exposed to substances.

Education

Stand together and recovery centers

The first peer recovery agency for behavioral health recipients in Arizona.

Friendly house

Friendly House addresses the pressing needs of their community: Education, Workforce Development, Family Support, Basic Needs and Immigration.

Live and Learn

Live and Learn is a non-profit organization to help empower women to break the cycle of generation poverty.

Phoenix Dream Center

Phoenix Dream Mission support residential life recovery programs and community outreach engagement services in a mission to stop human trafficking, end childhood hunger and educate tomorrows leaders.

Employment

Arizona At Work

Arizona@Work helps employers recruit, develop, and retain the best employees for their needs and helps job seeks by providing services and resources to pursue employment.

Fresh Start

Fresh Start has been on a mission to provide education, resources and support for women to positively transform their lives and strengthen our community. They envision a community where every woman reaches her full potential through achieving personal empowerment and financial self-sufficiency. The nonprofit organization helps women 18 and up focus on key areas of their lives, with a wide range of services, classes and workshops designed to teach self-confidence, life skills and career development.

St. Josephs the worker

St. Josephs The Worker’s mission is to connect disadvantaged, homeless, and transitioning people to quality jobs.

Phoenix Indian Center

Phoenix Indian Center serves the American Indian community with culturally relevant youth services, language and cultural revitalization programs, education and workforce development.

Recovery Empowerment Network

Recovery Empowerment Network helps provide a path to wellness through the support of someone who has been where you are.

RI International

RI International works as a worldwide leader of mental health and substance use crisis service design delivery,

Dress For Success

Dress for Success helps empower women to achieve economic independence by providing professional attire and development tools to help women thrive.

Department of Economic Security

The Department of Economic Security works to help realize the vision that everyone in Arizona will be safe and economically secure by strengthening individuals and families, increasing self-sufficiency, and developing the capacity of communities.

Arizona Career Pathways

Arizona Career Pathways defines the needs, identifies resources and brokers relationships that impact the education and training of a quality workforce, regional economic sustainability and business growth.

Family Services

St. Josephs The Worker

St. Josephs The Worker’s mission is to connect disadvantaged, homeless, and transitioning people to quality jobs.

Arizona Food Bank Network

The Arizona Food Bank Network (AzFBN) is a coalition of 5 regional food banks and nearly 1,000 food pantries and agencies, working together to address hunger in Arizona. Each month this network helps feed more than 450,000 food insecure people in all 15 counties in Arizona.

Community Kitchen

Community Kitchen is a 9-week culinary training program aimed at giving students a second chance in life by providing all of the skills necessary to be successful in the food service industry.

St. Mary’s Food Bank

St. Mary’s Food Bank assists various communities across Arizona through services like Food Distribution, Children’s Feeding Programs, Community Kitchen, and LIFT (a hands-on training program for adults to succeed on the warehouse and logistics industry").

HonorHealth Desert Mission Food Bank

Desert Mission offers several free and reduced cost food programs, nutrition education, and resource and referral services.

Catholic Charities Services

Working to help shelter the homeless and abused, protect and nurture childen, strengthen and reunify families, welcome and assist refugees, aid those in need, and help the impoverished.

National Domestic Violence Hotline

24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, the National Domestic Violence Hotline provides essential tools and support to help survivors of domestic violence so they can live their lives free of abuse.

Call 1.800.799.SAFE

Arizona Center for Youth Resources

Since 1976 ACYR has focused on developing our greatest natural resources…youth. Over the years we have grown and evolved into offering academic, vocational, and employment programs that help individuals discover their potential. ACYR helps build pathways to success through education, skill building and employment.

Financial

Annuity.org

Everyone deserves to feel financially secure. Whether you’re interested in buying an annuity to guarantee income for the rest of your life, selling your structured settlement payments, taking control of your personal finances or planning for a secure retirement, Annuity.org helps you make the right decisions for your financial future.

Nutrition Assistance

Connecting individuals and families to coverage, benefits and services.

Healthcare

AHCCCS Advocacy & Advancement

Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System is Arizona’s Medicaid program, offering healthcare to individuals and families who qualify based on income level.

AAAHC Native Health

Native Health provides health care available for urban American Indians, Alaska Natives, and other individuals who generally experience barriers to holistic, patient-centered, culturally sensitive health and wellness services.

Palm Valley Women’s Care

Palm Valley Women’s Care help women feel more comfortable making informed decisions about their healthcare.

VA Hospital

VA Healthcare covers regular checkups and appointments with specialists, as well as veteran healthcare like home health.

Housing

Transitional Living Communities

TLC is peer-run by addicts who know what you're going through because they've been there. Their treatment clinic is staffed with licensed behavioral health professionals and many of their staff members are in recovery themselves.

St. Vincent de Paul

ST. Vincent de Paul works to feed, clothe, house, and heal individuals and families looking for help.

Salvation Army

The Salvation Army helps bring help and healing to those who are hurting and hungry.

AZ Furniture and Mattress Liquidators

All furniture has been inspected and repaired.

Joseph’s Storehouse

Joseph’s Storehouse assists those in need of clothing, shoes, hygiene, household items, food, and infant supplies.

Native American Connections

NAC has developed, owns and manages 850 units of income based and affordable housing. Open to individuals and households of all ethnicities with specialized communities for families, seniors, individuals with disabilities, chronically homeless men and women, and homeless youth.

Dark Horse Recovery

Dark Horse Recovery has multiple group homes so that each one can be dedicated to serving residents with particular similarities so that they feel more comfortable around each other, and receive care specialized around their specific needs.

Legal Services

Homeless ID Project

The lack of personal identification documents is a serious impediment, preventing the homeless from accessing services to aid them in regaining their self-sufficiency.

Community Legal Services

Community Legal Services is dedicated to providing legal assistance, advice or representation, self-help materials and legal education so people can know their rights.

Legal Aid for Referrals

Legal Aid for Referrals is a free lawyer referral service designed to assist in obtaining legal representation. They do not offer direct pro bono services, and they can only provide referrals for legal matters in Arizona.

Justia

Find resources for legal matters.

Parole

Support Groups

Hope Women’s Center

A faith based trauma informed organization that provide women with education, mentoring, and support.

Neighborhood Ministries

Neighborhood Ministries provide education, activities, and opportunities to kids and adults in Phoenix.

Training

Arouet

Arouet provides education and career preparation to women after release from prison.

Transportation