Helping Formerly Incarcerated Individuals Transition Back Into Their Lives

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ABOUT D.O.V.E.

Developing, Organizing, Visions for Everyone (D.O.V.E) is a non-profit organization that provides re-entry and crime prevention programs designed for system impacted individuals.

D.O.V.E's mission is to serve our local communities by engaging in a broad range of strategies that promote gang prevention, community health, education, and development.

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THE 50

While serving life sentences in a dangerously overcrowded and drug-saturated prison system, 50 men embark on a radical journey to become the first incarcerated Substance Abuse Counselors in the country.

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How We’re Helping Previously Incarcerated Individuals

D.O.V.E.’S SERVICES

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How We’re Helping Previously Incarcerated Individuals

D.O.V.E. CAN IMPACT

65K

Men and Women nationwide return from prison to their communities

75%

Formerly incarcerated people are still unemployed a year after release

91%

Americans say that the criminal justice system has problems that need fixing

Statistics Source: ACLU

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D.O.V.E. IN THE NEWS

Black Citizen Change Makers

We are proud to work with an incredible group of organizers. Over the next six months, each organizer will be awarded a micro-grant and participate in professional leadership coaching through our partner A-Plan Coaching. Each organizer will leave with better defined social agency, increased competency around movement building, and equipped with tools to collectively challenge oppressive systems.

Push to ban crime box on applications expands

San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim wants to make this question virtually obsolete on job applications in San Francisco: Have you been convicted of a crime?

Kim is proposing to expand the city's existing ban by having it include most private employers, publicly funded housing providers and city contractors.

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