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
Turn a concern into a clear request, then keep track of the response.
Explore lessons →Advocacy: Supporting Reentry With Respect
Stand alongside people facing barriers and represent what they tell you accurately.
Explore lessons →Advocates: Boundaries & Sustainable Support
Help in a way you can keep doing. Agree on what’s wanted and recognize when someone else needs to step in.
Explore lessons →Building a Workable Daily Routine
Build a day you can actually manage, with room for things to change.
Explore lessons →Clear Meetings and Follow-through
Three practical lessons with exercises and optional multiple-choice practice.
Explore lessons →Community: Living Alongside Returning Neighbors
Welcome someone returning home without prying. Learn how to handle real concerns respectfully.
Explore lessons →Digital Life
Been away from everyday technology? Practice using it without having to pretend you already know.
Explore lessons →Employment & Work
Put your experience into words an employer can use, and get ready to apply.
Explore lessons →Everyday Household Skills
Three practical lessons with exercises and optional multiple-choice practice.
Explore lessons →Everyday Life
Practice everyday tasks that may be new or unfamiliar. Start where you are.
Explore lessons →Everyday Problem-Solving
Sort out what you know, then choose a next step you can take.
Explore lessons →Family & Relationships
Life together may be different now. Practice talking about what each person needs.
Explore lessons →Gatekeepers: Fair Access to Work & Housing
Look at what an application actually requires and how to give someone a fair chance at work or housing.
Explore lessons →Handling Difficult Conversations
Say what you need to say, and know how to ask for a pause when a conversation gets hard.
Explore lessons →Health & Appointments
Get your questions ready so you can make better use of your appointment.
Explore lessons →Housing
Work out where to look for housing and what to ask before you commit.
Explore lessons →IDs, Documents & Paperwork
Find the official instructions for the paperwork you need. Keep track of what’s still missing.
Explore lessons →Justice-System Literacy
Find the rule or form you need and check where it came from.
Explore lessons →Lawmakers: From Reentry Policy to Daily Life
Look past the headline numbers. Ask how a policy works in daily life and listen to the people living with it.
Explore lessons →Loved Ones: Keeping Your Own Life and Support
Your life still counts. Make room for your own responsibilities and the people who support you.
Explore lessons →Loved Ones: Reconnecting at a Realistic Pace
You don’t have to pick up exactly where you left off. Talk about what has changed and what you each hope for.
Explore lessons →Loved Ones: Sharing a Home Again
Make room for someone coming home while respecting the life and routines already in the house.
Explore lessons →Making a Learning & Training Plan
Choose something you want to learn and make a practice plan you can stick with.
Explore lessons →Media: Reporting on Returning People
Report on people coming home with accurate language and enough context to tell the story fairly.
Explore lessons →Money & Banking
Get familiar with everyday banking and make a plan for the bills.
Explore lessons →People Affected by Crime: Information, Choice & Boundaries
Find information and support on your terms. You decide your boundaries 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
Help people get useful referrals without leaving them caught between conflicting plans.
Explore lessons →Recognizing Scams & Pressure
Something feels off about an offer or message? Practice checking it before you respond.
Explore lessons →Reentry & Supervision Basics
Make sense of the instructions you’ve been given and work out who can answer your questions.
Explore lessons →Support on Your Terms
Three practical lessons with exercises and optional multiple-choice practice.
Explore lessons →Supporting Someone Coming Home
Work out what help you can offer someone coming home without promising more than you can manage.
Explore lessons →Transportation
Work out how to get where you need to go, including the trip home.
Explore lessons →Welcoming People in Everyday Life
Three practical lessons with exercises and optional multiple-choice practice.
Explore lessons →Working With Service Providers
Keep track of what a provider told you and what to do when you’re still waiting.
Explore lessons →Workplace Communication
Practice asking for clear instructions and talking through problems at work.
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.