RestoreHER US.America, Inc.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
The criminal justice system and the reform movement have not traditionally considered the needs of women. Pregnant women present unique challenges for correctional systems that are inadequately addressed. Even though women are the fastest growing population of incarcerated people in the United States, there is limited data regarding incarcerated women or studies of gender difference in incarceration. More than 80% of incarcerated women are primary caretakers, disproportionately women of color, low income, have mental health issues, and suffer the trauma of surviving some type of abuse. However, incarcerated women have been made “invisible” and marginalized due to the “masculine” orientation, misogyny and militaristic nature of prison systems. These practices of the “justice” system can have serious lasting safety and health implications resulting in women returning to their communities in far worse condition than when they entered the system.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
National DIGNITY Campaign
RestoreHER US.America leads the National "DIGNITY" Campaign that advocates to ban shackling, solitary confinement, and alternative sentencing through state and federal legislations, Dignity For Incarcerated Women Act and Women's CARE Act (WCA).
RestoreHER "Dignity For Incarcerated Women Act" collaborates with justice-involved women, communities, and stakeholders to expand shackling and solitary confinement legislation throughout the country, currently assisting in the passing of Dignity Bills in 21 states. RestoreHER also provided advocacy that was instrumental in the of passing the historical First Step Act which included providing the language in HR5682, banning shackling of women in federal custody.
The Women's C.A.R.E. Act
The Women's C.A.R.E. (Childbirth Alternatives, Resources, and Education) Act will provide alternative solutions for pregnant women in Georgia. Pregnant women will be deferred not to start their prison sentence until 12 weeks postpartum. This legislation is imperative to the welfare and harm reduction of the directly impacted pregnant women. More important, this legislation will create a safer, healthier environment for all.
D.A.T.A. Is LIFE
RestoreHER is launching the D.A.T.A. (Data Access for Transparency and Accountability) IS LIFE campaign to reintroduce data collection of maintaining recorded data of all women, pregnancies, and outcomes inclusive of juveniles and mentally ill for state, county, private, and local correctional facilities located in the state of Georgia. We have partnered with GSU Alonzo A. Crim Center to obtain "real time" data. If you are justice-involved complete the survey at www.restoreher.info
Renew Rebuild Restore LeadHERship
RestoreHER Founder, Pamela Winn created a curriculum that offers a comprehensive wellness, rehabilitation, and leadership program that was awarded the 2019 Soros Justice Fellowship.
The curriculum is derived from a "participatory process" that combines the lived experiences of directly impacted women and an advisory board of seasoned professionals through three components: RENEW your mind, REBUILD your life, and RESTORE your rights. The uniqueness of the curriculum is that it’s the first and only that combines diversion through trauma care, wellness, socio-economic referrals, reentry self-help tools, and leadership training to advance the quality of life, create opportunities, and promote policy change. Go to www.restoreher.info to complete an application for enrollment.
T.R.A.S.H.
T.R.A.S.H. (Traumatic Realities American Society Hides) highlights the "real" stories of lived experiences of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women with the criminal justice system.
T.R.A.S.H. brings awareness and educates the community of the unmet needs and torturous treatment of women that perpetuates more harm leaving women to return home in a worse condition than when they entered the criminal justice system.
HERhealth
HERhealth promotes health and economic equity for justice involved women of color. RestoreHER recognizes the deficiency of gynecological and obstetric care for women of color in the south. In partnership with SisterLove, our mobile unit will provide routine perinatal and gynecological care in rural Georgia's 70 counties without women's healthcare. RestoreHER maintains a USDA farming license to integrate education, promote wellness, and entrepreneurship in growing food and beekeeping. Justice involved women learn how to grow their own food, create community gardens, and sell their products to local businesses and at farmer's markets.
I.M.P.P.A.C.T.
Informing Marginalized Peoples Power And Cultivating Transformation (ImPPacT) is a coalition of directly impacted led organizations across Georgia initiated by RestoreHER. ImPPacT seeks to mobilize, educate, register, and engage more than 100K eligible Georgians with felony convictions to exercise their right to vote. Decarceration in our view goes far beyond closing jails and prisons, it is about engaging directly impacted people to come together, to mobilize our leadership and leverage our collective power to neutralize collateral consequences. ImPPact unites our voices and our vote to choose the representatives, the issues that will impact their lives, and resources needed to improve the health and safety of their communities.
IMPACT App
RestoreHER identified that formerly incarcerated socioeconomic and healthcare needs of women were not being met when returning to the community due to lack of technology, transportation, awareness, and the plain lack of gender specific resources available. RestoreHER is bridging the gap by producing a reentry mobile app, IMPACT (Inform Marginalized People And Cultivate Transformation). IMPACT resource database can be accessed on our programs site www.restoreher.info
HERcommunity
RestoreHER has initiated an affordable shipping-living housing for ownership. HERcommunity will provide economic equity and establish generational wealth for directly impacted women, veterans, and marginalized people with an annual income of $30K. RestoreHER is actively seeking funding to purchase 50 acres and the development of land for more than 100 units in South Fulton, Georgia. Homeownership is the cornerstone of generational wealth to give hope, help, healing, and deserving for ALL people.
HERhouse
RestoreHER believes in the safe security of stable housing of justice-involved women. HERhouse uses the SAFE housing model to provide emergency and supportive rental housing throughout Georgia and Alabama. Emergency shelter for justice involved women returning to the community homeless and rental living space for directly impacted women that face discrimination due to criminal backgrounds for a felony conviction.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of meetings held with decision makers
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Women and girls, LGBTQ people, Men and boys, Incarcerated people, Ethnic and racial groups
Type of Metric
Context - describing the issue we work on
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
RestoreHER meetings with policy makers, organizations, and advocates influencing policy change.
Number of requests for advocate products or information, including downloads or page views of online material
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Women and girls, Incarcerated people
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
RestoreHER receives hundreds of requests for strategizing, policy, legislation, and general information regarding RestoreHER.
Number of invitations for advocates to speak as experts
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Women and girls
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
RestoreHER receives numerous invitations to keynote, speak on panels, op-eds, white papers, interviews, and podcasts as experts for directly impacted women's issues.
Number of stories successfully placed in the media
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
RestoreHER advocacy efforts appear in stories with CNN, local and national news channels, newspapers, radio stations, and podcasts.
Total dollars received in contributions
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
RestoreHER receives contributions towards advocacy, projects, collaborations, and general operations.
Total number of volunteer hours contributed to the organization
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
RestoreHER receives numerous volunteer hours from collaborating organizations, directly impacted people, policy makers, and the community.
Number of new organizations signing on as collaborators
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
RestoreHER collaborates with numerous organizations that express interest in our advocacy, education, civic engagement and policy proposals, and partners across the CJR space.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
RestoreHER has a vision of a world where women of color impacted by mass criminalization and incarceration receive gender-based education, rehabilitation, and full restoration of their rights, so that they can move forward with hope, dignity, and opportunities to make important contributions in their communities. To achieve this, we need to shift the weight from a criminal justice system driven by perpetual punishment and dehumanization to one rooted in healing, accountability, transformation, and the recognition of each woman’s inherent dignity and right to reach their full potential.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
RestoreHER has a Southern criminal legal transformation strategy, which is centering lived experience and research to inform policy change initiating in the south and scaling nationally. Our strategy has been successfully tested, and focused in the following areas:
-Policy Advocacy - National Dignity and Out of Isolation Campaigns
-RestoreHER Research Program, “D.A.T.A. Is LIFE” and National Conference (February 2023)
-Probation and Parole - SB105 Probation Reform
-Civic Engagement - IMPPACT (Informing Marginalized Peoples' Power and Cultivating Transformation) THE VOTE GA
-Education - RRR Fellowship and T.R.A.S.H Programs
-Affordable Housing - HERhouse and HERcommunity
-Community Support - HERhealth
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Since our founding, RestoreHER has successfully and extensively advocated for criminal justice policy reform, contributing to the passage of 21 DIGNITY for Incarcerated Women's Bills throughout the South and in states across the country; lending Pamela's language related to incarcerated women's conditions of confinement, shackling during pregnancy, labor and postpartum, and solitary confinement to Federal Legislation the First Step Act; Passed probation and parole reform in Georgia, among other efforts. From speaking engagements, to testimony, bill drafting, and implementation. We work in collaboration with many partners, and have extensive reach through our network, we advance leadership and education to encourage engagement in our programs, and working to fulfill our mission.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
In 4 years, RestoreHER has become an effective and visionary leader in the criminal justice space, particularly in Georgia where we are based, extending throughout the South the Country and DC. Our current programs are all envisioned to be scaled and replicated - from legislation to advancing civic engagement, to affordable housing, and homeownership - the ideas we are building are intended to be shared, and evolve to truly transform the lives of people directly impacted by incarceration.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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RestoreHER US.America, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 11/15/2022
Pamela Winn
RestoreHER
Term: 2018 - 2023
Tari Williams
The Empowerment Alliance
Zaria Davis
Filling The Gap
Charlotte Garnes
ReNForce
Waleisah Wilson
NewLife-Second Chance Outreach
Tabatha Trammell
A Woman With A Plan
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Not applicable -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.