Programs & Services

Legal Rights & Employment Opportunities Campaign

Free community based workshops prepare participants to get and keep employment. Workshops enable participants to gain knowledge of employment rights and opportunities for formerly incarcerated people through presentations and in person job and career advancement events. We couple the employment resources with access to free legal guidance for record clearing, Certificates of Relief from Disabilities/ Good conduct in order to optimize success and economic advancement of the justice impacted community. We are proud trailblazers in coupling legal rights with employment opportunities, for optimal success.

DREAM TECH

Legal Rights & Employment Opportunities Campaign

Dream Tech is a technology training program designed specifically for men and women impacted by the criminal justice system. It is a three course program which include Introduction to Computers, Microsoft Windows Operating System and Microsoft Office Online. Training is provided to reintegrate the formerly incarcerated population with technology by bridging the gap created by the advancement of technology.

Voting Rights & Felony Disenfranchisement Campaign

Our Voting Rights and Felony Disenfranchisement Campaign empowers justice-impacted individuals to understand, reclaim, and exercise their right to vote. We provide clear education on state voting laws, dispel myths about felony disenfranchisement, and offer hands-on support to help people safely re-engage in the democratic process. Through community outreach, workshops, and partnerships, we uplift the voices of formerly incarcerated people and ensure they are included in critical conversations shaping their lives. Our work strengthens civic power, advances equity, and builds a more inclusive democracy—one where every community member has a vote and a voice.

DREAM HOUSE

Dream House is a safe housing space initiative of Dream Deferred Inc. for formerly incarcerated women and girls located in Brooklyn, NY lead by Chastity Michel. Dream House is a holistic home environment designed to empower and build community for women returning home from State and Federal incarceration. Through trauma informed care we provide women with tools and resources aimed to promote healing from the inside out.

Free Commmunity Events and workshops

Employment Readiness & Record Clearing

Free community based workshops prepare participants to get and keep employment. Workshops enable participants to gain knowledge of employment rights and opportunities through lectures, hands-on activities and meeting with attorneys to clear records or obtain rap sheets.

Conflict Resolution

Employment Readiness & Record Clearing

The Conflict Resolution Workshop provides an easy-to-use, easy-to-remember eight-step system to reliably prevent, manage, and resolve personal and professional conflicts.

Conflict Resolution in the Workplace
Conflict Resolution dealing with difficult people

Financial Literacy

Employment Readiness & Record Clearing

Financial Literacy

Financial literacy workshop focuses on the ability to manage personal finance matters efficiently, and it includes the knowledge of making appropriate decisions about personal finance, such as investing, insurance, real estate, paying for college, budgeting, retirement, and tax planning.

Emerge

Heal Her

Financial Literacy

Emerge is our life skill tool box that provide participants with a variety of specifically designed workshops and courses, including certification opportunities. Emerge was constructed with an understanding of the unique barriers faced by the formerly incarcerated community that hinder and stagnate their transition upon their release and beyond.

Heal Her

Heal Her Health and Justice Initiative helps disenfranchised and marginalized women and girls by dismantling the walls created by mental trauma and incarceration.

Heal Her brings awareness to the mental and emotional trauma that exist within this population but more importantly, provide tools, information and shared resources that are available for formerly incarcerated women and their families.