Community Circles
Join our peer-led support groups—safe spaces for returning citizens to connect, heal, and grow through sharing lived experiences and resources.
Healing Each Other Respectfully (H.E.R.)
Healing Each Other Respectfully (H.E.R.) is a women-led support group for formerly incarcerated women, providing a safe space to explore self-esteem, healthy relationships, boundaries, and parenting. By focusing on gender-specific experiences, H.E.R. empowers women to navigate the unique challenges of reentry, build confidence, and advocate for themselves as they reintegrate into their communities.
Staying On Track
Our monthly support group provides returning citizens a safe space to connect with peers and professionals, share resources, and navigate the challenges of reentry. Sessions focus on healthy relationships, coping with trauma, building confidence, and preparing for a successful life after incarceration.
Solutions From the Yard Podcast
Hosted by VSC’s Train Our Voices graduates Charles Hopkins, Michael Dickerson El, and Dietrich Trent, Solutions From the Yard is a monthly podcast born out of conversations that began inside D.C. correctional facilities. The podcast brings authentic, firsthand perspectives to the forefront of discussions on incarceration, reentry, and social change.
Each episode offers space for returning citizens to share their stories, reflect on the challenges of reentry, and spark meaningful dialogue around issues like trauma, homelessness, employment, mental health, family, and the 13th Amendment. Through honesty, empathy, and lived experience, the hosts challenge stigma and offer pathways toward collective healing and systemic transformation.
Solutions From the Yard embodies VSC’s commitment to amplifying the voices of returning citizens—turning lived experience into leadership and personal stories into community solutions.
❝ We’re speaking for the brothers and sisters still behind those bars who don’t have a voice. And we try to find solutions for some of the issues that brothers and sisters still face. ❞ — Solutions From the Yard Host, Dietrich Trent
