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Life :: Volunteering :: Jail and Prisons
Richmond Virginia (VA) Jail and Prisons
Here is a comprehensive list
of Jail and Prisons volunteer opportunities. Includes organizations
that assist ex-offenders.
| Name | Description |
| Assisting Families of Inmates | The mission of Assisting Families of Inmates, Inc. (formerly Prison Family Support Services) is to help families preserve and strengthen positive relationships with relatives incarcerated in Virginia’s state correctional centers. Through a continuum of direct informational and support services, AFOI helps families cope with the incarceration and prepare for release and reunification |
| Boaz & Ruth | It's a vicious cycle. When someone is released from prison, they generally return to the old neighborhood, desperately hoping for a new life. But a decent job, a safe home and healthy relationships are hard to come by in a community weighed down by the very problems and issues that helped spawn the crime to begin with. You can't change a life without changing the community as well. That's what makes Boaz & Ruth so unique. |
| Good News Jail & Prison Ministry | Good News Jail & Prison Ministry was incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia in December 1961 as a non-profit organization formed for the purposes of organizing a visitation program for the benefit of inmates of institutions in the State; witnessing to inmates and their families; aiding in a physical and spiritual rehabilitation of men and women upon their release from an institution; and provision of an educational program within the institutions to encourage continuance of formal education among the inmates, as permitted by said institutions. |
| OAR of Richmond | Provides case management and transitional services to defendants ordered to the Special Services program by Richmond General District Court judges and to offenders requesting services during or after incarceration in the local jails in Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, Petersburg and Richmond. Services include job search classes, Impact of Crime on Victims classes, AA/NA support groups, job placement, housing and transportation assistance, and referrals for residential mental health/substance abuse services. |
| Powhatan-Goochland Community Action Agency (P-GCAA) | For nearly 35 years, the Powhatan-Goochland Community Action Agency (P-GCAA) has provided an array of needed services to low-income families in both Powhatan and Goochland Counties. |
| Prison Fellowship | Prison Fellowship partners with local churches across the country to minister to a group that society often scorns and neglects: prisoners, ex-prisoners, and their families. |
| Resource Information for the Disadvantaged (RIHD) | Resource Information Help for the Disadvantaged (R.I.H.D., Inc.) a nonprofit membership organization dedicated towards acquiring "earned" second chances for the risk youth, inmate & ex-offender through increased rehabilitation programs that leads towards decreasing the recidivism rate (return to criminal behavior) within all communities. |
| Road to Redemption Association | In response to the myriad needs of re-entrants (ex-offenders) returning to their respective communities, the Road to Redemption Association (R2R) was developed in 2005 as a private, non-private 501(c)3 organization. |
| SOS Pen Pals | SOS Pen Pals is a unique partnership between Save Our Shelters (SOS) and the Virginia Department of Corrections. Designed to lower the rate of euthanasia in Virginia’s public pounds, SOS Pen Pals also promotes rehabilitation and provides job skills to the inmate handlers, some of whom have become successful dog trainers upon their release from prison. |
| Virginia CARES | Virginia CARES, Inc. is a state wide non-profit Community Action Agency which assists newly released parolees and their families in making a successful transition from prison to their community. Once released ex-offenders usually return to the environment from which they came. |
| Virginia C.U.R.E. | A safe, peaceful Virginia for all citizens by meeting public safety responsibilities for restoration of crime victims, the offenders, the affected families, and the community at large. |