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- EIN 46-3876220
- info@rootandrebound.org
- (510) 279-4662
- 1610 Harrison Street Ste E-East Oakland CA 94612 USA
- www.rootandrebound.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Crime & Law, Rehabilitation Services for Offenders
Mission: To increase access to justice and opportunity for people in re-entry from prison and jail, and to educate and empower those who support them, fundamentally advancing and strengthening the re-entry infrastructure across the state of california.
Programs: See schedule o. Roadmap to reentry guide & trainings: conducts trainings across california that teach communities most impacted by incarceration how to successfully navigate reentry. The trainings are intended for a wide audience, including people in reentry and those who support them: community service providers, advocates, educators, community supervision officers, family and friends. In 2016, root & rebound trained over 1,500 service providers, family members on the legal barriers post incarceration. Root & rebound also trained over 1,960 men and women currently incarcerated throughout california. In addition to this direct service, root & rebound also reached over 2000 currently incarcerated people through our hotline service. Root & rebound is the only legal reentry organization that accepts collect calls from jails and prisons. Roadmap to reentry legal guide: provide legal information, advice, referrals and where appropriate, representation to people in re-entry. Assists clients on critical matters such as parole and probation issues, family law, housing, employment and public benefits. Major gaps and unmet needs in re-entry and best practices for starting a re-entry program. Root & rebound guide for california employers: hiring people with criminal records. In 2016 r&r shipped 32,000 legal guides to the men & women in reentry. We also created a family & children toolkit for both people in reentry & one for those supporting them.