Formerly Incarcerated Parents Spring ‘23 Community Healing Circle: Tuesdays in-person from 6PM - 7:30PM (April 18 - May 9)

Adult Children of Formerly Incarcerated Parents Spring ‘23 Community Healing Circle: Wednesdays in-person from 6PM - 7:30PM (April 19 - May 10)

Caregivers During a Parent’s Incarceration Spring ‘23 Community Healing Circle: Mondays in-person from 6PM - 7:30PM (April 17 - May 8)

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Supporting Families with Formerly Incarcerated Parents

Spring 2023 Umoja Reentry Family Unity Project In-person Community Healing Circles are Starting in April!

If you would like to sign up to join a free circle or get more information, please complete the confidential Interest Form!

Spring 2023 healing circle descriptions are below. ~ Check out the 2023 flyer for the free healing circles below.

Circle for parents

We invite Formerly Incarcerated Parents to join us safely outside in our private courtyard for an in-person healing circle to support one another with re-integrating into family life. The Communinity Healing Circles will be co-facilitated by a reentry peer and a professional counselor of color. The circle will share and build skills for supporting and rebuilding family relationships.

This group is free and each person will receive gift card incentives for participating in the healing circles.

Circle for adult children

We invite Adult Children of Formerly Incarcerated Parents to join us safely outside in our private courtyard for an in-perosn healing circle to explore how your parent’s incarceration and release has impacted you and your family relationships, and how to keep moving forward. The Community Healing Circles will be co-facilitated by a peer and a professional counselor of color. The circle will share and build skills for supporting and rebuilding family relationships.

This circle is free and each person will receive gift card incentives for participating in the healing circles.

Circle for Caregivers

We invite Caregivers of children during the incarceration of a parent to join us safely outside in our private courtyard for an in-person healing circle to explore how the parent’s incarceration and release has impacted you and your family relationships, and how to keep moving forward. The Community Healing Circles will be co-facilitated by a peer and a professional counselor of color. The circle will share and build skills for supporting and rebuilding family relationships.

This circle is free and each person will receive gift card incentives for participating in the healing circles.

Check out the 2023 Umoja free healing circles Flyer!

About Us

Carl B. Metoyer Center for Family Counseling has been serving families in East Oakland for more than 40 years. The Umoja Reentry Family Unity Project Community Healing Circles Program is funded by Oakland’s Department of Violence Prevention’s Mini-Grant Program (FY 22-23 Mini-Grant Projects List_#43 on list_webpage link).