Advocacy in Everyday Practice
Three practical lessons with exercises and optional multiple-choice practice.
Explore lessons →You don’t have to know it already.
Come here when you need to learn how to do something. Choose the subject that helps today. You do not have to complete a whole curriculum or follow an order.
RE-ENTRY UNIVERSITY
Been gone a long time? Start here.
The world may have changed. We can take the next steps one at a time—from a smartphone and email to applications, appointments, and everyday life.
Open the Start Here path →What would help today?
Advocacy: Speaking Up About Barriers
Prepare a specific request, use clear evidence, and follow the issue through a response.
Explore lessons →Advocacy: Supporting Reentry With Respect
Document barriers, represent people accurately, and organize practical community participation.
Explore lessons →Advocates: Boundaries & Sustainable Support
Keep consent, role limits, handoffs, and your own capacity visible while helping.
Explore lessons →Building a Workable Daily Routine
Make room for appointments, travel, ordinary tasks, and changes of plan.
Explore lessons →Clear Meetings and Follow-through
Three practical lessons with exercises and optional multiple-choice practice.
Explore lessons →Community: Living Alongside Returning Neighbors
Understand supervision terms, welcome people without prying, and respond to actual concerns respectfully.
Explore lessons →Digital Life
Phones, email, files, forms, and everyday technology.
Explore lessons →Employment & Work
Build an application, describe your skills, and prepare for work.
Explore lessons →Everyday Household Skills
Three practical lessons with exercises and optional multiple-choice practice.
Explore lessons →Everyday Life
Practice calendars, shopping, and unfamiliar everyday tasks.
Explore lessons →Everyday Problem-Solving
Separate facts from guesses, compare practical options, and choose a next step.
Explore lessons →Family & Relationships
Communicate, set boundaries, and adjust to life together.
Explore lessons →Gatekeepers: Fair Access to Work & Housing
Check actual requirements, clarify applications, and build respectful everyday working and living arrangements.
Explore lessons →Handling Difficult Conversations
Practice a clear request, a respectful pause, and a follow-up agreement.
Explore lessons →Health & Appointments
Prepare for appointments and ask questions you want answered.
Explore lessons →Housing
Organize a search and ask clear questions about an application or lease.
Explore lessons →IDs, Documents & Paperwork
Find official instructions and keep paperwork organized.
Explore lessons →Justice-System Literacy
Locate official policies, forms, and the right place to ask.
Explore lessons →Lawmakers: From Reentry Policy to Daily Life
Read outcome measures carefully, trace implementation, and listen to affected people without reducing them to anecdotes.
Explore lessons →Loved Ones: Keeping Your Own Life and Support
Protect time, responsibilities, relationships, and support for yourself while helping someone return.
Explore lessons →Loved Ones: Reconnecting at a Realistic Pace
Talk about hopes, time together, changed roles, and trust without demanding an instant return to the past.
Explore lessons →Loved Ones: Sharing a Home Again
Make practical room for someone returning while respecting the household and routines already there.
Explore lessons →Making a Learning & Training Plan
Choose a skill, compare learning options, and plan a manageable practice routine.
Explore lessons →Media: Reporting on Returning People
Check justice-system language, use proportionate personal detail, and report reintegration with context.
Explore lessons →Money & Banking
Understand common tools and practice a simple plan for bills.
Explore lessons →People Affected by Crime: Information, Choice & Boundaries
Find appropriate information and support, decide your own boundaries, and avoid pressure around contact or reconciliation.
Explore lessons →Plans That Can Change
Three practical lessons with exercises and optional multiple-choice practice.
Explore lessons →Professionals: Coordinating Practical Reentry Support
Clarify roles, make useful referrals, and reduce conflicting plans while respecting privacy.
Explore lessons →Recognizing Scams & Pressure
Practice checking unexpected messages, job offers, and requests before responding.
Explore lessons →Reentry & Supervision Basics
Organize release questions, instructions, and services.
Explore lessons →Support on Your Terms
Three practical lessons with exercises and optional multiple-choice practice.
Explore lessons →Supporting Someone Coming Home
Offer useful help, agree on limits, and build backup arrangements together.
Explore lessons →Transportation
Plan the journey, the return trip, and the questions to confirm.
Explore lessons →Welcoming People in Everyday Life
Three practical lessons with exercises and optional multiple-choice practice.
Explore lessons →Working With Service Providers
Prepare a request, record an answer accurately, and follow up when a service is still pending.
Explore lessons →Workplace Communication
Practice clarifying tasks, reporting a delay, and responding to feedback.
Explore lessons →Helping someone come home?
Prepare together, ask what help is wanted, and leave room for independence.
Open the loved ones pathSee all learning pathsPractice without handing over your information.
Try example forms, pretend attachments, sample documents, and everyday tasks. No real passwords, identification numbers, medical details, or banking credentials belong here.