MISSION

To provide community safety programs for offenders in Georgia correctional facilities and on their release, in local communities. 

OBJECTIVES

• Implement prerelease program emphasizing successful citizenship

• Facilitate integration into civic community responsibilities and support systems

• Mentor and counsel with ongoing support for sustaining a drug-free & crime free life for five years

VISION

Uplifting People envisions a time when every offender released from a Georgia correctional facility has an opportunity to participate in a program such as Uplifting People's Guiding Offenders into Acceptable Living Standards (GOALS).

• Community Action and Social Responsibility Survey

• Community Wide Survey on Prisoner Re-Entry

• Host a Leadership in Action Community Reentry Reception

• Leader in Action Brochure

• Membership Leadership in Action

• April 14, 2007 - Reentry: The Faces of Our Community (click here for more)

• We are currently looking for people to interview for five positions in the AmericorpsVISTA membership team. Those positions are Marketing Specialist, Grant/Resource Developer, Community Awareness Initiative Specialist, Prison to Community Resource Systems Coordinator, and Data Support Systems & Evaluation Coordinator. If you are interested in becomming a candidate, or know anyone would be interested please contact Michelle Dawkins at Micdaw2000@yahoo.com or call (404) 880-6914. Please review attached Position assignments, click here

• We are keeping children in School-Uplifting people, Inc - read more

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