ULTIMATE RE-ENTRY OPPORTUNITY
WE CHANGE SYSTEMS
TO KEEP PEOPLE OUT OF THE PRISON PIPELINE
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Our Mission
URO, Ultimate Re-Entry Opportunity, is dedicated to changing culture and systems to keep people out of the prison pipeline. Our work starts and ends with those most impacted: those who have faced—or are currently facing—incarceration.
We are committed to policy changes and programs that support reintegration and reduce recidivism. We study the challenges to reentry, organize Working Groups to create solutions, and organize partners and funding to execute Reentry Initiatives.
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We believe that change comes from within the community, for the community.
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We invest in building relationships and trust as a foundation for Collective Impact and long-lasting Systemic Change.
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We prioritize partnership-building across non-profits, government agencies, policy makers, academics and those impacted by incarceration.
We are rooted in studying and sharing the ways of healing trauma, of rebuilding community, of trusting our resilience, and of moving past our collective trauma into new ways of being in community with one another.
Our Values
Our Timeline
We acknowledge that changing systems—shifting hearts and minds in a community—is slow work.
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It takes at least 10 years before the investments in relationships, conversations, partnerships and initiatives start to make themselves seen.
This is deep, deep work, and like growing a garden, a lot must be planted and tended long before the flowers bloom.
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We thank you for being on this journey with us.
“True systems change requires solutions to be embedded deeply enough that they can self-perpetuate.”
-Investing in Systems Change Capacity,
Stanford Social Innovation Review, January 2024.
