HOPE Foundation Re-entry Network

01/02/2022

Success is nothing more than a state of mind, a way of thinking, it's a mindset that influences and defines every decision you make.
2022

10/07/2021

Have you or a loved one recently been released from incarceration and are looking for support? The Hope Foundation Reentry Network, Inc. is here to help! We are now recruiting participants for the next cohort of our Fresh Start Virtual Mentoring Program. The program is 12 weeks and participants receive bi-weekly stipends and a monthly SMART Trip card. More details in flyer.

Please share with your networks.

08/05/2021

Congratulations to our Founder and CEO Corey Knight who was honored today by the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) for his outstanding leadership and service to returning citizens in DC. We’re so proud of you, Corey!

07/15/2021

Let’s take a minute to wish our Program Director Terrence Davis Sr happy birthday we appreciate your work and dedication to the Hope Foundation has been unmatched thank you for helping returning citizens in the District of Columbia.
Enjoy your day 💯🎂

06/30/2021

Our Founder and CEO Corey Knight was honored to attend the swearing in of Joel Caston, ANC 7F07’s newest Commissioner. Joel is the first incarcerated resident ever to win and serve in public office. Commissioner Caston will represent residents inside DC Jail and the surrounding area. Congrats, Joel!

05/06/2021

Have you or a loved one recently been released from incarceration and are looking for support? The Hope Foundation Reentry Network, Inc. is here to help! We are now recruiting participants for the next cohort of our Fresh Start Virtual Mentoring Program. The program is 12 weeks and participants receive bi-weekly stipends and a monthly SMART Trip card. More details in flyer.

Please share with your networks.

04/11/2021

Let’s take a minute to wish our Director of Operations Janae happy birthday we appreciate your work and dedication to supporting returning citizens in the District of Columbia. You have been awesome from the beginning and we wish you peace and prosperity.
Have fun!!!

12/01/2020

Today is , a global movement that celebrates giving back to the community! 🌍

This , please consider supporting The Hope Foundation Reentry Network and our mission to provide transitional services to returning citizens in Washington DC.

You can donate to our mission here: https://hopereentrynetworkdc.org/donate/

10/29/2020

The Hope Foundation is looking for interns who are committed to helping DC returning citizens navigate their reentry process. If you’re looking for an amazing opportunity to give back to DC or looking to gain experience with a 501c3 non profit, apply now! Spread the word 🗣

09/12/2020

One more week! The Hope Foundation Reentry Network will be hosting a community cleanup of Southeast Washington, DC, on Saturday, September 19th. The cleanup will take place at Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue & South Capitol Street SE from 10AM to 2PM.

There are still spots available! If you’re interested in volunteering, please email us at [email protected] to confirm your spot.

Please note: We will be providing PPE (masks and gloves) for all volunteers.

09/02/2020

The Hope Foundation Reentry Network will be hosting a community cleanup of Southeast Washington, DC on Saturday, September 19th. The cleanup will take place at Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue & South Capitol Street SE from 10 AM to 2 PM. If you’re interested in volunteering in this community event, please email us at [email protected] to confirm your spot.

We hope to see you there!

Please note: We will be providing PPE (masks and gloves) for all volunteers.

08/24/2020

Even though the partners didn’t live up to there expectations I teach my kids to don’t sweat the small stuff because when life throw you lemons 🍋 you just make lemonade 💯💯💯💯 I got them, and they know it.

09/02/2019

DC pharmacies to offer free overdose-reversing drug, naloxone

Full interview free Narcan for opioids overdose.

Pharmacies throughout D.C. will now provide the overdose reversing drug, naloxone, for free.

06/22/2019

This is my instructor look, getting ready to teach my effective parenting class, for Court Services and Supervision Agency.

06/21/2019

Thank you and for allowing me to give a message and empower the 16 young men and women graduates, and thanks to the young man who spoke before and shared his challenges of moving forward.
I closed with something everyone should believe in.
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Everyone has a story to tell, a lesson to teach, and wisdom to share. Life is a beautiful masterpiece bound together by your experience. Open up share your story, become an inspiration to others. You can make a difference you matter. You were created with a purpose. Live your life with intentions, go out there and make a difference by being the difference.
Have you look in the mirror lately ?
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I been raise from the dead and brought back to life for one reason, to please God as his humble servant.
Ask yourself the question why are you here.

@ Department of Employment Services

06/04/2019

Restored the Vote Press Release
I want to thank Councilmember Robert White for his leadership and commitment to addressing voting rights for the District's incarcerated residents. Earlier this year I shared the Commission on Re-Entry and Returning Citizen Affairs key priorities which included expanding voting rights to incarcerated District residents with felony convictions. Enacting this legislation will secure an expansion of rights for thousands of District residents and help lead a national effort.
We as DC residents, advocates, Councilmemebers, and Commissioner’s support the Restore the Vote Amendment Act 2019.
@ John A. Wilson Building

03/19/2019

Thank you District Empire Entertainment LLC HAZZARD for giving our youth some skills on how to use the lens, they had a great time taking shots and learning how to edited their own photos. I really appreciate you lil bruh we can wait to see the photos, oh is Everywhere 😂😂💯💯💯🤜🏾🤛🏾 @ Congress Heights

03/16/2019

Branding is a personal responsibility we can meet you daily water supply, you can purchase case or you can meet our youth this summer at the water stands which will be located around the city.
Creating a safe space to allow District of Columbia youth residents to enroll in our District Water entrepreneurship summer program.....
The program will have financial empowerment workshop, budgeting, branding, business ethics, and more.


@ Washington, District of Columbia

03/09/2019

Everything you do should be an expression of your purpose. If a activity doesn't fit that formula you wouldn't work on it.
If you're not excited to get to work on Monday you should be putting together a plan immediately to get out of what you're doing. So Many of you reading this and dreading the weekend is over and you need to get back to doing thing you don't enjoy. That's not a way to live.
You have one life and you are the CEO of your life.

03/08/2019

Today Ready Set Grow program ask questions from our Dunbar youth. To help them transition from behaviors patterns to compliance.
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Who are you?
What do you value the most?
And they had to write there answer on the board so we could see apart of them that they don’t share, we had this discussion to open up and also talk about there biggest challenges right now.
We have to get to the core of the problem if we want our kids to be successful, create a safe atmosphere so we can support each other.
We will set the Foundation to introduce this to all DCPS, my goal is every child the come in contact with will be safe, successful and educated.
Give them what you didn’t have....


@ Dunbar High School

03/07/2019

No caption needed 🙏🏾

03/06/2019

We salute you Tony Lewis Jr. for organizing a awesome platform,
100’s of people standing in solidarity......
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@ Department of Employment Services

03/05/2019

It was great day to stand in solidarity with so many advocates for Reentry, there’s power in numbers.
@ Department of Employment Services

03/05/2019

Today 4pm I don’t care where you are stand in solidarity with every individual incarcerated throughout the United State.
Let’s end mass incarceration and this wicked system that was created for people of color.

03/04/2019

DREAMS
I don’t have to get on American Airlines or any other flight ✈️ because once I wake up I’m working on my dreams......

03/03/2019

See this young guy he from Congress Park, and have been in my program since he was 14, we pour into his like, keep him from making mistakes and help him make the Decision where he is today 19 yrs old driving army tanks..... all it takes is time.
Swipe 💯💯💯▶️
Congratulations Monae Property ��� @ Southeast, Washington, D.C.

03/01/2019

You want to build wealth?

Find your money a job .......
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Money doesn’t like desperate people .....💯💯💯

02/24/2019

State of Emergency
Thinking about where I come from ( the pit of hell ) by choice, I became a product of my environment, but this is unacceptable ....our kids are dying because we won't acknowledge the ELEPHANT 🐘 in the room..... we are to busy talking about returning citizens but there's a generation that are getting prime and ready to fill the jails which will continue to reproduce new slaves. I take this personal because one I'm a Returning Citizens and two I understand the brokenness that being represented ..... they are being influenced by this lifestyle that I call the Death style...... and the media not only to misrepresent us but DESTROY US.....
😡😡😡

02/24/2019

02/24/2019

I told myself the bottom is too crowded, was my motivation to excel, the transformation started as soon as I went into solitary confinement to be processed for population, 30 days to process all of the s**t I put myself through, how I left my daughter without a father and I just turned 37 in the hole.
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I was fed up with how I let the lifestyle and drugs ruin my careers and the success that I dreamed as a child, what happened?
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How did I end up at the bottom?
Certified Plumber
Certified in Culinary
Manager for Stores
Special Police with a gun
Scholarchips in Architectural Drafting
What happened? How did I end up in a bandominium looking out the windows like Malcolm X, trying to see who I could prey on.
My mom work to hard to see her son as a certified bum. See the story is real and I have one, it’s not pretty and I’m not ashamed of it.
BECAUSE IT CREATED WHAT YOU SEE TODAY!!!!
The hit to this is, this is not a fad, this is my life ...... my pain has been the urn into my passion, I live, breath transformation and recovery.
The only I did perfect after being released in 9/29/07 was I QUIT......
The streets , the drugs, the distribution, the friends, and my thinking.
People think I hey can walk out of jail and jump right in position, nope you have to crawl before you walk.... and I started with a air mattress and sometimes I woke up on the floor, with third party custody clothes from Salvation Army, and one pair of Jordans my nephew gave me.
THE BOTTOM IS WHERE I COME FROM.
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02/18/2019

March 5, 2019
Stand in Solidarity

02/17/2019

Let your pain make you. Let your sorrows guide you. Let your mistakes teach you, but never let your defeat beat you.

02/16/2019

Educate them youngins, keep planting seeds 🌱 get in there way, be a mentor pull them out of the street for a day, have lunch with them, be an influence, let them see something other than the streets. If you be consistent with watering the seed,
THE STREETS WILL BECOME UNATTRACTIVE AND THEY WILL LOOK FOR YOUR GUIDANCE......
I’ve broken at least 20 cycles of dysfunction with kids I’ve came in contact with, became families to parents and began to be a buffer in the household.
🏡 👩‍👦👨‍👦‍👦👨‍👩‍👦‍👦
Ready Set Grow

02/15/2019

Deliveries 💯💯💯💯

02/15/2019

I think we started something, the Ready Set Grow program has become a safe place for giving our youth reinforcement why Education is important. We started with 6 to 8 now the referrals are coming in from teachers from different grades. Thank you for pouring into our kids with following their dreams, connecting to resources and working through difficulties and challenges.
We’re going to give them all we got and the resources to helping them to become successful.


@ Dunbar High School