Our mission is to provide scholarships and mentoring to children of currently and formerly incarcerated parents in order to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty, crime and addiction that too often threatens them.
Help RISE empower children of incarcerated parents escape the cycle of poverty and violence, achieve their academic and personal potential, and contribute their talents to our communities.
Help RISE empower children of incarcerated parents escape the cycle of poverty and violence, achieve their academic and personal potential, and contribute their talents to our communities.
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Through education and mentoring, we help kids with incarcerated parents succeed.
Our Scholarship Program gives motivated students displaying leadership potential who have been accepted to a private or parochial high school financial support as well as a mentor. Our Mentoring Program matches healthy adults with children aged 7 through high school and supports their consistent monthly engagement through cultural and recreational group activities. RISE staff support relationships between the children we work with and their mentors, schools, and families.
To provide scholarships and mentoring to children of currently and formerly incarcerated parents in order to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty, crime and addiction that too often threatens them.