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PROGRAMS
Empowering System-Impacted Communities
At Dignity and Power Now (DPN), our programs are built with and for system-impacted individuals, their families and communities.
Rooted in healing, advocacy, and collective care, each initiative supports individuals and families navigating the impacts of incarceration and state violence.
From responsive aid to long-term leadership development, our programming centers dignity, transformation, and equity.
Explore our program areas below to learn more:
Rooted in healing, advocacy, and collective care, each initiative supports individuals and families navigating the impacts of incarceration and state violence.
From responsive aid to long-term leadership development, our programming centers dignity, transformation, and equity.
Explore our program areas below to learn more:
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Health & Wellness
DPN's Health and Wellness Program is grounded in healing justice practices.
The fight for liberation begins with healing ourselves and our communities from the deep trauma of systemic violence. We believe mental, physical, and spiritual wellness are the roots of true healing and sustainable activism.
The fight for liberation begins with healing ourselves and our communities from the deep trauma of systemic violence. We believe mental, physical, and spiritual wellness are the roots of true healing and sustainable activism.
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Family Meetings
Family Meetings provide safe, supportive, and politically active spaces for families impacted by incarceration, police violence, and the broader carceral system.
Families find emotional support, connection, and empowerment, with many going on to become canvassers, volunteers, and frontline organizers advancing DPN’s abolitionist campaigns and justice reform work.
Families find emotional support, connection, and empowerment, with many going on to become canvassers, volunteers, and frontline organizers advancing DPN’s abolitionist campaigns and justice reform work.
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Mutual Aid
Originally created as a COVID-19 relief initiative, our Mutual Aid fund has grown into an important lifeline for system-impacted communities in Los Angeles.
Today, it offers critical resources to DPN community members navigating the long-term effects of incarceration.
Today, it offers critical resources to DPN community members navigating the long-term effects of incarceration.
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Post-Conviction Advocacy
The DPN Post-Conviction Advocacy Program provides free post-conviction support services for currently and formerly incarcerated individuals.
Developed and led by formerly incarcerated leaders, this program offers community-based assistance with expungements, record sealing, parole hearing preparation, and more.
Developed and led by formerly incarcerated leaders, this program offers community-based assistance with expungements, record sealing, parole hearing preparation, and more.
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Forever Rooted
Returning to life after incarceration is a complex journey that deserves healing, empowerment, and community support. Forever Rooted helps provide the tools for success.
Forever Rooted and Forever Rooted Support Group are Dignity and Power Now’s leadership development program and alumni meeting space designed specifically for formerly incarcerated individuals that are ready to grow, heal and lead.
Forever Rooted and Forever Rooted Support Group are Dignity and Power Now’s leadership development program and alumni meeting space designed specifically for formerly incarcerated individuals that are ready to grow, heal and lead.
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Project Stop Line
Project Stop the Line was born from a community member-turned-organizer's deep commitment to break the school-to-prison pipeline and address the gaps in support for her son, while he was on parole.
DPN empowers youth to envision and build lives beyond the carceral system, to heal and become community leaders.
DPN empowers youth to envision and build lives beyond the carceral system, to heal and become community leaders.
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