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New supportive housing project opens for formerly incarcerated women

Summary by KITV4 News

Oahu’s first permanent supportive housing project opened today with a special blessing ceremony.The housing project, named ‘Mohala Mai,’ offers a safe home to formerly incarcerated women and their children to

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Housing project for formerly incarcerated women opens

There is now a home for women coming out of prison — a place where they can feel safe and get the support they need to get back on their feet.

1 year ago·Honolulu, United States

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New supportive housing project opens for formerly incarcerated women

1 year ago·Honolulu, United States

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Formerly incarcerated women to find work and housing through new program

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - A trial program intended to lower the barriers that imprisoned women face as they reenter society is now underway.The program, Building Employment and Meaning, or BEAM, will work with women who are leaving the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington, Vermont’s only prison for women. The program is based on the belief that, to succeed, former prisoners need help not just with a job but also with hous…

1 year ago·Burlington, United States

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KHON2

Permanent, affordable housing for former women inmates

Linda Lingle said affordable housing projects for women who just got out of prison were all transitional until Mohala Mai.

1 year ago·Honolulu, United States

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Formerly Incarcerated Women to Find Work and Housing Through a New Program

The Ross Dining Hall kitchen at Middlebury College was in full, midsemester swing on a recent afternoon. Servers carried steaming vats of food as prep cooks fished raw carrots from gallon tubs and chopped away. Amid it all, the dining team's newest employee calmly wheeled food to the walk-in coolers, then sat at her corner desk to order ingredients for the days ahead. She was only six weeks into her new job with dining services — a position that…

1 year ago

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