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Community Partners
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Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC) partners with Step by Step through their program, All of Us or None, a grassroots civil and human rights organization fighting for the rights of formerly-and currently-incarcerated people and our families. We are fighting against the discrimination that people face every day because of arrest or conviction history. The goal of All of Us or None is to strengthen the voices of people most affected by mass incarceration and the growth of the prison-industrial complex. Through our grassroots organizing, we are building a powerful political movement to win full restoration of our human and civil rights. Step by Step sponsors and participates in this program.
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Restoration Women on the Rise (R.W.O.R) is a leadership development training program that helps women to find their voice and place in society, as well as gain self awareness and identify their potential. R.W.O.R is about employing the self, "Who am I", in my community, my church, and in my mirror when I look at me. Reentry women get to experience the narrative of mass incarceration and system impact through education and on experiencing at mock elections at voting polls. They learn tools on how to select candidates, how to research propositions, to make informed decisions at the polls. Reentry women at Step By Step are provided the platform to use their voice on shared experiences and values that once placed them in compromising situations in life, and how their voice counts to change the narrative of system impacted citizens.
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Kindred of Sangoma offers weekend retreats called Crowns of Isis (COI) on a monthly basis to clients of Step by Step. Crowns of Isis is a transformative journey led by BIPOC to help formerly incarcerated, indigenous, women of color that have been harmed by the justice system to address generational traumas and to heal first, and then learn effective strategies for advocacy/activists’ work against the above systems and cycles named.
This pilot of this program was an introduction and overview of what will be the entirety of this program: 13 intensive weekends in different locations in and around South Carolina (2 completed, 11 remaining for this year), attending three (3) different social justice rallies in Washington D.C., and one week-long summer camp.
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SAFE Housing Network's program, A New Way of Life, offered training to Step by Step on how to best promote healing, power, and opportunity for formerly incarcerated people by taking a multifaceted approach to mitigating the effects of, and ultimately eliminating, mass incarceration.
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Loaves & Fishes is an organization that contributed in-kind donations of food to our transitional house. Their in-kind donation supplies 3 meals a day 365 days a year for residents in our transitional home.