HOPE Foundation Re-entry Network

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.
@just2campaign @wegood

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.
#moneymanagement
#responsibility

06/21/2019

Thank you @does_dc and @dccareerconnections 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.
@empoweringouryouth
@ 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.
#restorethevotedc @ 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 @district_water is Everywhere 😂😂💯💯💯🤜🏾🤛🏾 @ Congress Heights

03/16/2019

Branding is a personal responsibility @district_water 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.
#helpingyouthstrive
#teachthemyoung
#supplyanddemand @ 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.
#ImgoingtoshowyouhowitsDone

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 @hope_foundation_reentry_networ come in contact with will be safe, successful and educated.
Give them what you didn’t have....
#breakingthestereotype
#keepsupporting
#educationispower @ 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 @does_dc standing in solidarity......
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#standupandbecounted @ 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.
#standupandbecounted @ 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.
#standupandbecounted
#solidarity

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......
#stayinyourlane
#yourdreamsmeaneverything
#focused

03/03/2019

Linguine with Jerk scallops, Crabmeat, Shrimp, and vegetables
#SmartChef

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 .....💯💯💯
#ihadtolearnthehardway
#dontberichbroke

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.....
😡😡😡
#Prevention
#ReadySetGrow

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 sh*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.
🤷🏾‍♂️🙏🏾💯👊🏾✊🏾✈️✈️✈️
#keeppushing
#transformation
#returningcitizenschronical

02/18/2019

March 5, 2019
Stand in Solidarity
#standandbecounted

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.
#proffesorpain #noexcuses #lifelessons

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
#noentry #buldingrelationships #mentorship #consistency #commitment @hope_foundation_reentry_networ @district_water

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 @randrentertainment 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.
#noexcuses
#noentry
#supportsystem @ Dunbar High School

02/08/2019

The Ready Set Grow initiative is equip with the first phase of our program #Slugg workbooks, we’re going to introduce what is already relevant with our youth in the DCPS. Thank you Tony Lewis Jr. and Hanover Pl Press LLC for you generous donation and support. We will continue to join force to break the school to prison pipeline.
#Slugg #noentry #education #breakingthecycle @ Dunbar High School

02/07/2019

Thursday is always a double for the Ready Set Grow program. We leave the Department of Corrections and then right to Dunbar HS making an impact on our youth population. Thank you State vs Us Magazine and @nateynate1977 for sharing your experience, strength, and hope thank you for sharing the journey to success.
#ReadySetGrow #empowermentsessions✔️
#HopeFoundation

02/06/2019

The Pizza 🍕and Paint 🎨 was awesome the kids had a day of creativity a little music 🎶 fun and therapy today.
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You want to know what joy feels like.
Be a mentor .....there’s nothing like it 🖤✌🏾
#NoEntry #ReadySetGrow
🍕 and 🎨 @ Malcom X Opportunity Center

02/05/2019

Our Ready Set Grow program is now in Department of Corrections, DC Public Schools and Community Recreation Center, we have seen our young people fall victim of becoming a statistic of mass incarceration, our job is to create a safe place for kids to be kids, and give them support to be successful in their community.
Let’s keep pushing prevention safety, education and empowerment.
#NoEntryCampaign
Group discussion motivation, sacrifice and challenges. @ Pop Up Opportunity Center at Malcolm X

02/03/2019

SHOUT OUT TO THOSE WHO HAVING A HARD TIME RIGHT NOW.
REMEMBER IT’S ONLY TEMPORARY
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02/03/2019

I have great relationships with organizations and people that really care about the community, got the phone.
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Corey how many people would give food bags too?
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Let me make the calls lol pick up 15 bags and went on a delivery run before I go to the Joe Clair show for his birthday.
I’ve also gain knowledge of more program for my population as well.
You never know what’s will happen when you have a good heart, I will continue to serve people in the capacity that God allows me.
It should never be a competition but a team, and if you have team players they will help you and not sit on the side line and watch you fail.
Remember when can only build our community with love, not malice and division.
The you S.O.M.E. for always supporting the @hope_foundation_reentry_networ, thanksgiving baskets, Christmas toys, clothes, food, space, treatment you name it they got us.
✊🏾👊🏾💯✌🏾👏🏾🙏🏾 @ Some Inc