Helping returning citizens leave the bars scene

June is Reentry Awareness Month and The Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com are part of The Reentry Project, a solutions-oriented focus on issues facing people coming out of prison. The piece is part of an occasional series - across the region and across platforms - on the challenges of - and solutions to - prisoner reentry in Philadelphia. Member news organizations this month are highlighting the work of over 100 governmental agencies and nongovernmental organizations which collaborate to reduce recidivism and support the estimated 30,000 people who return to Philadelphia from jail and prison each year.

Click on the slide show link at left for more photographs of returning citizens and people involved with reentry both inside and outside the prisons.

Below are links to some of the groups involved in city reentry programs:

The Philadelphia Reentry Coalition http://www.philadelphiareentrycoalition.org/

The Reentry Project https://thereentryproject.org

The Philadelphia Reentry Think Tank http://peoplespaperco-op.weebly.com/reentry-think-tank.html

Mural Arts Restorative Justice Program https://www.muralarts.org/program/restorative-justice

Walk In ReEntry Services https://www.facebook.com/Walk-In-ReEntry-Services-WIRES-213444775800516/

Institute for Community Justice https://fight.org/programs/institute-for-community-justice/

Songs in the Key of Free https://www.songsinthekeyoffree.com/

The Center for Returning Citizens http://tcrcphilly.org/

The BLOC PARTY  http://www.theblocparty.org/

PHS Roots to Re-Entry https://phsonline.org/programs/roots-to-re-entry

Community Learning Center http://www.communitylearningcenter.org

Penn's Goldring Reentry Initiative https://www.sp2.upenn.edu/degree-programs/certificate-programs-specializations/msw/goldring-reentry-initiative-gri/

Pennsylvania Prison Society http://philadelphia.pa.networkofcare.org/ps/services/index.aspx#