Re-Entry Success Campaign
Support Our Road in your End of Year Giving
Our Road Prison Project is launching Re-Entry Success Campaign 2022. We will be reaching out to people incarcerated in California Prisons from Alameda County to support them in getting Cal-IDs before they are released. Leaving prison with an ID gives them access to jobs, healthcare, check cashing, banking, and complete community engagement.
Frank, an Our Road Alumni, shared his experience of the 10 months he waited for an ID. He was fearful that the police would stop him when he was walking down the street as Frank knew that might take him to the station if he couldn't prove who he was. Also, he shared the frustration of not picking up the money his wife sent from Western Union because he didn't have an ID. He faced slammed doors everywhere he went.
He shared, "Once you get your ID, it was like a weight lifted off my chest. I was suffocating. I still felt like I was locked up."
Now, he is living a wonderful life with a job he loves and an incredible wife. She supported him emotionally and financially while he didn't have an ID and couldn't work and faced one obstacle after another. Our supporters will keep individuals from going through the suffering that Frank went through.
Thank you for your support!