HEALING COMMUNITIES PA
Balancing Justice With Mercy
Faithful Advocates for Justice Transformation
ABOUT US
Vision Statement: To be the premier interfaith prison reentry support and justice advocacy organization in Pennsylvania, transforming the lives and communities of all those impacted by crime and mass incarceration.
Mission Statement: Healing Communities PA is an interfaith, BIPOC, abolitionist, inclusive organization, led by directly impacted people of faith to educate, organize, elevate, and empower Pennsylvanians directly impacted by the criminal justice system and their allies to be change makers for justice transformation.
To carry out our mission, we provide training, capacity building, technical assistance, and resource delivery to directly impacted people and communities of faith on effective reentry support, the realities of mass incarceration, faith community organizing, policy advocacy, and restorative practices in transformative and healing justice. We also facilitate the HCPA Faith Action Network as our coalition and movement-building arm to lead and build capacity on credible justice transformation campaigns. Finally, we provide grassroots, community-led restorative practices such as circles, conferences, and mediations, as alternatives to prosecution, to prevent retaliation, and to resolve conflict in communities before system involvement Contact us to learn more and get involved.
WAYS WE HELP
Meaningful Work With Engaged Communities
Healing Communities PA strives to build relationships of healing, redemption and reconciliation in communities
driven by bold actions and a strong foundation of support.
OUTREACH
Helping The Community
With access to the right resources, communities can become empowered by their own abilities and gain the confidence to fulfill their potential.
HCPA provides support to faith communities by identifying resources and building networks for capacity building, service delivery and advocacy.
TRAINING
Reinforcing Our Commitment
HCPA trains communities of faith to
connect returning citizens to resources that will help set attainable goals, help them connect with their faith, foster positive relationships, extend open and affirming fellowship in collaboration with family and friends to rebuild relationships and advocate for policy change for justice transformation.
EVENTS
Connecting Communities
Through cooperation and community empowerment HCPA believes we can facilitate progress in the area of justice transformation.
We provide support and technical assistance to faith communities by offering seminars in restorative justice, family reintegration and family support, opportunities for peer learning from other congregations and expert learning at local, regional and national conferences and customized programming for local congregations.
HCPA FAITH ACTION NETWORK
Rebuilding Relationships In The Community
The HCPA Faith Action Network works to organize the faith community and directly impacted people of faith to advocate for justice by providing movement building, faith community organizing, policy advocacy, media & social media campaigns, turnout, research and campaign education.
Working interfaith, HCPA uses the principles of restorative justice to empower faith communities to be positive change agents for marginalized directly impacted people.
