Restoring Relatives
Healing communities.Restoring relatives.
Restoring Relatives supports re-entry, recovery, healing, and wellness for tribal members and families impacted by incarceration and multigenerational trauma—through positive life skills and restorative, cultural, and traditional practices.
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The work
Care that reaches beyond release.
Founded and led by formerly incarcerated people of the Tohono O’odham Nation, Restoring Relatives responds to the barriers that can follow incarceration: access to services, employment, family restoration, and sustained support. The organization brings behavioral health, cultural knowledge, and restorative practice into the same work.
Read the missionPrograms and services
Support across the path home.
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In-Facility Services
Weekly programming for youth and adults in detention, focused on rehabilitation, education, mental health, and cultural and spiritual support.
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Re-Entry Planning
Discharge planning, counseling, education, and connection to community resources before and after release.
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Community-Based Services
Outpatient support, counseling, medication management, and workshops that help sustain a continuum of care.
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Pre-Trial Services
Diversion and accountability practices centered on repairing harm, community, ceremony, life skills, and substance education.
Restorative practice is a path held with people, not a service handed to them.
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