Continuity Changes Outcomes
We connect people, families, and systems from incarceration through community—because rehabilitation shouldn't end at the prison gate.What We Do
Connecting People
We Listen
The NIA works directly with people experiencing incarceration to understand their circumstances, strengths, needs, relationships, and goals—and helps build a path toward greater stability that can continue after release.Strengthening Families
We Relieve the Burden
Families are the invisible support system of incarceration. The NIA provides information, guidance, connections, and ongoing support to help families navigate incarceration, prepare for release, and remain a source of ongoing stability.Utlizing Our Network
We Connect Systems
No single organization can do this work alone. NIA works with corrections, community organizations, employers, housing providers, behavioral health resources, families, and other stakeholders to coordinate resources around shared outcomes.From Crisis to Stability
Our Work in Action
NIA's work takes different forms because people need different things at different points in their journey.
Prevention
Our intensive, relationship-based service system connects individuals and families with ongoing guidance, resources, and support from incarceration through community life. From sobriety to mental health, we are here.
Housing
For women returning from incarceration or experiencing housing instability, Whole-Way Housing provides a pathway from immediate stabilization toward employment, independence, and permanent housing.
Employment
We connect people with training, employment resources, financial guidance, and employers willing to create meaningful pathways to sustainable work.
Support
Families don't receive a sentence, but they experience incarceration too. NIA helps families navigate systems, find resources, prepare for release, and support their loved one's progress.A Decade of Results
For ten years of working with families, the NIA has built connections with organizations and discovered a safer path. It is because you met our love with faith that we are able to deliver meaningful results today.Over
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Built Through Partnership
NIA's work has been supported through relationships with government, corrections, philanthropy, businesses, community organizations, and families who believe better outcomes are possible.
Help Us
Solve the Problem
Whether incarceration has touched your family, you work inside the justice system, you employ people returning home, you provide community resources, or you simply believe we can produce better outcomes—you have a place in this work.
FAQ
NIA’s purpose is to help prevent rearrest and improve public safety through our unique process of providing access to long-term care and support to those reentering communities after their release from jail or prison. We provide similar services to the circle of family and friends who are essential to their success.
We do not charge our clients for our services. As a non-profit organization, we use donations from individuals, foundations, and businesses and money from grants and contracts with the government and private companies and organizations to pay NIA’s expenses.
We provide immediate help to people who call us and respond to phone messages and emails within 48 hours. We also help people who are still incarcerated to prepare for their release. For example, we offer courses in managing a budget, job and social skills, and other practical information to people who are in jail or prison. When individuals are released, we connect with them at the corrections facility to find sober housing if they need it, and to help them meet other immediate needs.
Your best first step is to contact NIA at 470-869-2966. Our staff can help you find out if your loved one is safe. After that, we can help you decide on next steps based on where the arrest was made, what the alleged offense was, what legal actions need to be taken, and where your family member or friend is now.
When people are released from jail or prison, their most immediate needs are usually for safe, sober housing and reconnection with family members or friends who can help them on their reentry journey. NIA provides comprehensive case management to help people leaving jail or prison to obtain the things they will need for successful reentry. These might include housing, treatment and peer support for substance use and mental health issues, employment, transportation, medical care, family reunification, and community.
NIA employs a Board of Directors, an Advisory Committee of experts, and paid and volunteer staff, all of whom are trained and the majority of whom have experience with incarceration, either personally or through a loved one. Altogether, 53 people in these roles work for or with the NIA.
NIA partners with many organizations that can help people who have been arrested or jailed, and their families, with legal issues. We do not have legal experts on staff for the purpose of providing legal advice.
The costs of incarceration to our country, our communities, our families, and our public safety are enormous. Far too many people reentering society are left without basic support to rebuild their lives and their families’ lives. Incarceration leaves physical, social, and psychological scars on both those in jail or prison and their families. Because former offenders have a criminal record, they often encounter barriers to housing and employment that make it even harder for them to live and to comply with their post-release requirements. That is why so many end up incarcerated again and why long-term case management that the NIA provides its clients is so important and so successful at dramatically reducing re-incarceration.