Our Mission
Native American Reentry Service’s mission is to address barriers faced by Native people who find themselves struggling to transition from a life of incarceration to one of healthy and productive freedom. Our goal is to support successful reintegration into Native American/Aboriginal reservation and urban communities and reduce recidivism through Native American/Aboriginal traditional means.
Photo credit: Genna Martin, Crosscut, 2022
Our Vision
NARS primary vision is to increase the number of organizational staff who’ve returned to the community from the Iron House Medicine prison program. Their lived experience supports the second part of our vision, to expand the safe space we provide for growth and healing during reintegration. Finally, our vision is to increase programming that supports de-institutionalization to reduce the recidivism rate (currently 45.3%) Native Americans/Alaska Natives currently experience.
Our long-range goal is to reduce recidivism rates by increasing access to culturally safe and responsible reentry case management services that incorporate traditional native and indigenous healing practices to increase our capacity to deliver programs staffed by formerly incarcerated native people with successful reentry and reintegration lived experience.
Our Values
Our values center around the use of indigenous traditions, and ceremony for healing during reentry for our incarcerated/formerly incarcerated relatives, their families, and our tribal communities.
