Friends, As we launch our year-end campaign, I want to begin with a truth: Here in North Carolina, women are the fastest-growing segment of the incarcerated population, and more than 95 percent will return home one day.

Women returning from prison are coming home to overwhelming barriers: no housing, untreated medical and mental health conditions, limited employment options, no transportation, and trauma that has often gone unaddressed for years. Without support, nearly 30 percent will return to prison within three years. This is the landscape women are stepping into. And this is where your support changes outcomes. Arise Collective’s mission is to equip women with the tools and support they need to heal, grow, and thrive, both in prison and in the communities to which they return. Your investment in this work ensures that justice-involved women can access safe housing, trauma-informed counseling, medical and behavioral health care, chaplaincy support, transportation, treatment, job readiness assistance, and the tools they need to move forward with dignity. One participant shared: “I arrived with nothing and no hope. I have never felt so cared for. I honestly feel like I am in Heaven.” – Sarah*, WRP participant This is what your support makes possible: real care, real stability, and real safety for women who would otherwise be navigating reentry alone. We have much more work ahead. Too many women are still returning home without support and without the resources they need to be safe, find stability, and reunite with their families. That is why our goal is to raise 40,000 dollars by December 31. We can’t do this without you. Thank you for helping to build safer, more compassionate communities in North Carolina. Give today at https://arise-collective.org/woven-together.