https://www.focusreentry.com/vision daily 0.75 2019-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/1553976424520-05CG995KVEZ4665E9PY9/indy+1+2.jpg Our Vision https://www.focusreentry.com/our-vision-1 daily 0.75 2019-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/1553978348586-RMQ9SMJX5OSOV4V5RI1O/indy+1+2.jpg Our Vision https://www.focusreentry.com/incorporates daily 0.75 2019-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/1554006377861-QVKU9GE5OTPS51NICAR3/indy+1+2.jpg INCORPORATES - • Legal aid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/1554006377861-QVKU9GE5OTPS51NICAR3/indy+1+2.jpg INCORPORATES - • Legal aid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/1554006385559-AVK7BCKVRVNI4JIIOP3K/indy+1+2.jpg INCORPORATES - • Social services https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/1554006391144-N6M8OZSVYGKQMKG2TSRQ/indy+1+2.jpg INCORPORATES - • Community service https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/1554006396499-71IAV9IOVIIBC046SZJL/indy+1+2.jpg INCORPORATES - • Educational programming https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/1554006302946-WVECZLBVUMB6X3VUHCQB/indy+1+2.jpg INCORPORATES - • Medical and mental health services https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/1554006370624-BF1HPL8OYTD8T4YN2JLW/indy+1+2.jpg INCORPORATES - • Employment opportunities through an in-house construction company https://www.focusreentry.com/our-plan-1 daily 0.75 2019-03-30 https://www.focusreentry.com/home-top daily 0.75 2017-06-27 https://www.focusreentry.com/our-vision daily 0.75 2019-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/1554004420687-0H9XHSI8AKJ93SIHQ0JB/indy+1+2.jpg Our Vision - OUR VISION Focus Initiatives builds a vibrant community for people returning to Marion County from incarceration. https://www.focusreentry.com/our-motivation daily 0.75 2021-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/1554149777357-CO1B1V8C0J77SFXFM214/indy%2B2%2B2.jpg Our Motivation - OUR MOTIVATION By building a path to reclaim futures together, we tackle the challenges of re-entry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/1554942613538-B6D1WTVEABW54W570V25/4657f33998a3b51cac6071ed675ecdb3--than-you-relations.jpg Our Motivation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/1554942631791-IOQMBQXZA6JXGUEQEJ89/Basic-Needs-FB1-500x263.png Our Motivation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/1554942631543-YS9Z3VOX9HV3RVKDHVRN/beb5a9728592a12df944b340ef806455--than-you-relations.jpg Our Motivation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/1554942648486-HSOPQHR5F1M0KRK0EFWL/Education-IG1-500x500.png Our Motivation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/1554942663728-UUVCG2FOZIVNLLN9VB4T/Housing-Basic-Needs-Twitter3-500x250.png Our Motivation https://www.focusreentry.com/our-plan daily 0.75 2022-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/1554135660383-6NGFW39O6CGL9EG30DTW/indy%2B3%2B%2B2.jpg Our Plan - OUR PLAN Four phases to transform reentry into viable futures and build a resilient community https://www.focusreentry.com/our-vision-5 daily 0.75 2021-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/1554095009498-QK6P9J3JWPOORZ77XQ28/indy+1+2.jpg Our Vision - OUR VISION FOCUS Initiatives builds community with people returning from incarceration in Indiana. https://www.focusreentry.com/home-1 daily 1.0 2022-01-06 https://www.focusreentry.com/about daily 0.75 2021-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/1554942324621-7ZMU3EIXRWDNBOCIHUOA/prisons%2Bdisappear%2Bpeople.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/1554148465275-OQLCTM5K6TZB21W7EAGX/Screen+Shot+2019-04-01+at+11.02.30+PM.png About - OUR PHILOSOPHY ABOLITIONIST RE-ENTRY https://www.focusreentry.com/supportfocus daily 0.75 2021-11-09 https://www.focusreentry.com/leadership daily 0.75 2022-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/1569188828842-0O3YM3AAKGRKUI9S8VLO/free+anastazia.png Our Leadership https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/2cdddd84-146e-4c76-aa08-07a9bf9e25b1/profile+pic.jpg Our Leadership - Strategic Planning Director Nicholas Greven is the Strategic Planning Director. This is a volunteer role that involves coordinating fundraising, outreach, and communication within the organization. The goal of this position is to develop the organization’s resources and capacity to a point that it is self sustaining and fully directed by formerly incarcerated people and people with incarcerated loved ones. Mr. Greven is a long-time community organizer and a founder of FOCUS Initiatives, who helped facilitate getting the project off the ground. He has been involved in advocacy around prisoners’ rights and decarceration for nearly a decade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/1554226145151-F6XBQHUTI30LHTYO6UAL/faheem.jpg Our Leadership https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/2cc6d7b2-8749-4186-a990-d70a9dddbf55/IMG_20210910_124001%7E2.jpg Our Leadership - Queen Lewis, Evansville Director & House Manager Not native to Evansville, but a Hoosier nonetheless. Born in Gary, Indiana, Queen brought her children, 3 sons and 1 daughter to Evansville, Indiana over 20 years ago in search of a new beginning and peaceful environment to raise her children. Up until recently, she has always been active in the community, behind the scenes, by rounding up the adolescents that were earmarked as lost causes. She kept them busy by writing plays, making costumes for those plays, organizing social gathering to keep them off the street, taking small trips to introduce them to cultured events and places. Queen’s first son has been incarcerated for about 4 years. Her second son locked up for about 3 years. Youngest son has been gone for a little over two years. [As of 2021] After going through cycles of depression, anxiety, anger, and hopelessness, Queen was introduced to IDOC Watch and FOCUS Initiatives as a group of people that could be a support group on the "outside" while her sons were locked up. She says, “The introduction has educated me, as well as supported me in solid ways that helped me through my particular struggles as a direct reaction to my loved ones being incarcerated. Realizing, through first hand experiences, the need for safe, resourceful housing and an opportunity to work in a capacity the can be a resource to its community, I clearly felt passion for their vision for the re-entry program.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/1554226162059-7AMV57Y0ZZK2Q79DI9KL/Bro+Khalfani+2017.jpg Our Leadership https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/1554226188176-U99XRTAPG8MPMI2FI75W/angaza.jpg Our Leadership https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/55a1b1bc-46a0-4133-8b37-8c001675fd98/IMG-20210731-WA0001.jpg Our Leadership - Jauston Huerta, Indianapolis Director & House Manager Mr. Huerta grew up in Baton Rouge, LA until his adolescent years, and then as a teenager he was thrown between the slums of Tijuana, Mexico and Gary, IN. Difficult conditions in a stressful environment made it easier to fall into the common traps of an urban community. Mr. Huerta made his living as a drug dealer for over 25 years. After approximately 14 years of incarceration off and on in facilities across the country, Mr. Huerta has emerged from this dark period of his life with a new sense of purpose and direction. He has joined FOCUS Initiatives and been supported with housing, resources, information, and encouragement at every turn. That’s why he has joined the organization and is serving as a House Manager. Mr. Huerta is two years removed from being incarcerated and is thriving like never before. In addition to working with FOCUS, he works as a warehouse team-lead, and is focusing on his passion, a cartoon project on YouTube called The Real Cindy Lou. https://www.focusreentry.com/contact daily 0.75 2023-02-28 https://www.focusreentry.com/governance daily 0.75 2021-11-09 https://www.focusreentry.com/reentry-acclimation-programs daily 0.75 2022-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/94fe354a-4945-4420-abd7-851510d295c8/mutual+aid.png Reentry Acclimation Programs - Reentry Basics Re-entry Basics consists of the Wraparound Services Coordinator aiding people participating in the FOCUS program with the essentials of living in society after returning from incarceration, through a team of Re-entry Coaches. Such essentials include getting healthcare, housing, a job, transportation and a drivers’ license, digital literacy, financial literacy and budgeting, substance abuse counseling if that is an issue, mental health support, ensuring the participant has access to quality food, and any other immediate needs that may arise. As the program expands to include more participants, we will raise money to make the Wraparound Services Coordinator into a full-time position and eventually hire multiple people for this role. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9cf328b9144913b527f3a8/760cef64-fa4c-4221-9580-89c7fd0d0f37/Screenshot+2021-11-05+at+15-41-07+PHOTOS+naefi.png Reentry Acclimation Programs - Community Support: Reentry Circles Reintegration into outside society can be extremely difficult after being incarcerated, especially on lengthy sentences, or if one has been held in solitary or otherwise tortured while incarcerated, beyond the basic torture of being caged and chained. It is very difficult for people who have not had such experiences to understand what people experience post-release. Some people call this experience Post-Traumatic Prison Disorder. FOCUS is developing supportive peer mutual aid groups with abolitionist ethic aimed both at supporting peoples’ successful reentry and post release acclimation, and building a social base for abolition among people directly oppressed by the prison-industrial complex. Read our Reentry Circle Mutual Aid Groups Description here. 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