Services

RCSG offers peer-to-peer support networks that help returning citizens navigate relationships, reentry challenges, and emotional well-being through structured group meetings.

RCSG is committed to addressing the housing and financial stability needs of returning citizens by providing both immediate support and long-term pathways to success. Our supportive and long-term housing initiatives are designed to provide stability, foster community belonging, and create pathways to generational wealth.

RCSG provides returning citizens assistance in securing food, transportation, clothing, and hygiene items.  

Our technology classes help returning citizens  learn internet basics, Microsoft suite, email, online banking, social media, and general computer literacy. 

We help returning citizens to secure proper and valid identification documents (driver’s license, state ID, Social Security Card, birth certificate) and navigate healthcare service plans and benefits.  

RCSG assists returning citizens in securing employment and completing accurate and compelling resumes. We meet with clients to discuss strengths and previous work experience to build out a robust resume for job applications, connect clients with open job applications, and set them up on search engines like Indeed or LinkedIn. RCSG provides training on workforce skills, workplace etiquette, and interactive job interview exercises, and offers interview and workplace appropriate clothing from our closet.

With a New York licensed attorney on staff and other pro-bono partners, we offer legal assistance in clemency and record expungement applications. We support our community in court hearings by providing testimony in writing (letters of support) and verbal presentations.  

RCSG assists returning citizens in learning healthy financial skills, such as budgeting and money management. 

• With our community partners at M&T bank, we assist returning citizens in opening bank accounts. 

• We offer advice and skills in banking literacy, credit building, budgeting, investing, and savings.  

• COMING SOON: Financial literacy classes that will offer an interactive deep dive into these skills. 

In partnership with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Inside Circle, and the Youth Justice Commission, we facilitate restorative justice circles that promote interpersonal and intrapersonal healing and growth.

In partnership with financial sponsors and philanthropists, access to small loans gives returning citizens the opportunity to buy property, start a business, or invest in their future

A social enterprise is a business that generates profits from goods and services purchased by the community, but has a social mission. In this program, RCSG wants to create multiple social enterprises that educate, train, and employ returning citizens and at-risk youth in a variety of industries.

This arts-based programming fosters self-expression and community reintegration encouraging healing from the trauma, shame, and stigma associated with incarceration.

A woman-centered re-entry program that ensure no returning citizen leaves incarceration alone; providing immediate, in-person support at the time of release to help with transitions home.