Welcome to The Community Works Summer 2026 Newsletter! Building a More Restorative Future, Community Works is celebrating the people, ideas, and community partnerships that are helping create a more just, compassionate, and restorative future. From bringing youth voices to the national stage at the NACRJ Conference to advocating for policies that protect survivors and invest...
We are excited to announce that we will be sharing vital information about Community Works Community Engagement in the coming weeks and months. Stay tuned for essential news, announcements, and events as we actively connect and engage with our local communities. Your involvement is crucial, and we can’t wait to embark on this journey together!...
Returning home from being incarcerated can feel a lot like starting from ground zero, but that doesn’t have to be the case. On April 16, our Women Rising program hosted annual gratitude event, where we launched a Community Closet open for women returning home to access free necessities every Thursday and Friday. Thank you to...
Summer is just around the corner, which means our youth-led program, Project WHAT! (PW), is full swing into spring enrollment. Over the summer, PW hires and pays children of incarcerated parents, equipping them with invaluable professional skills. If you or anyone you know connects with young people ages 12 – 17, please have them complete...
Our Rising Voices theater group is gearing up to attend and participate in performances across the Bay Area! As part of our Women Rising Program, members of Rising Voices develop their performance skills while building community, confidence, and empowering one another. We’re currently recruiting more formerly incarcerated TAY women to join us – please help...
Join us for a Spring Event featuring CW’s 25+ years of restorative justice and the arts. We’ll be honoring our founder Ruth Morgan’s legacy and looking ahead to what’s ahead for CW. Thursday, May 26 from 5:30-7:30 pm at 95 Linden Street. RSVP here.
On June 25th, Rising Voices will be performed with the Formerly Incarcerated People’s Performance Project at PianoFight Theater in Oakland. The theme of Rising Voices’ set is “What You Don’t See When You Look at Me”, a theme the women selected because it speaks to the pre-judgements, bias and misconceptions people hold about individuals who...
“As we hear cries around the nation to ‘defund the police’ we have to ask ourselves whether every role we play in prosecution is appropriate and necessary. If there is a better actor in the community or elsewhere, we need to step back and allow them the space to work.” – Chesa Boudin, San Francisco...
On June 25th, Rising Voices will be performed with the Formerly Incarcerated People’s Performance Project at PianoFight Theater in Oakland. The theme of Rising Voices’ set is “What You Don’t See When You Look at Me”, a theme the women selected because it speaks to the pre-judgements, bias and misconceptions people hold about individuals who...
