Find Critical Resources for re-entry
Coming Home Worcester and NE Regions is a directory of re-entry services available to ex-offenders returning to, or currently living in the Central Massachusetts and New England Regions. The directory presents important information for ex-offenders about the services available in these communities. Subsequently, this guide may also be useful for corrections practitioners, program staff, policy makers. Additionally, the friends, families, and volunteers that work with former offenders in the community may also find this resource directory to be useful.
After release, an ex-offender begins the difficult task of re-assimilating into the community. Typically, the ex-offender’s transition is very complicated, and may include significant obstacles that must be overcome to obtain stability. Fortunately, there exists a network of services designed to assist those in need. By compiling this directory, it is our hope that we will be able to assist former offenders, and those who care about them, find the resources they need to make the difference between success and a return to incarceration.
How to Use the Directory
The directory contains contact information and a basic description of the services offered for each organization. It includes other informational resources where possible. When in doubt, directly contact the organization for the best, most up-to-date information. The editors cannot and do not vouch for the accuracy or quality of the services available.
The agencies listed in this directory are not the only resources available. The publishers of this resource directory, Dismas House of Massachusetts, Inc. has tried to include all appropriate agencies and organizations. Regrettably, some information may be missing. Are we missing an agency? Do you have a correction to report? Please contact us.
Agency Highlights
These agencies specifically address ex-offender re-entry and needed supports for ex-offenders and their families.
- Advocates – Behavioral Health Supports for Justice-Involved (BH-JI) Individuals
- Amos House
- BAR None, Dismas House
- Barre Community Justice Center
- Bridge Center
- Burlington Housing Authority (ORHP)
- CAP of Belknap-Merrimack (CAPBM)
- Center for Law and Justice / Jeffrey Wood Re-Entry Center
- Chittenden County Community Justice Center
- Clark University – Liberal Arts for Returning Citizens
- CODAC Behavioral Healthcare
- CODAC Behavioral Healthcare – Pawtucket
- Community Action Strafford County
- Community Compass at Open Sky
- Community Mental Health Affiliates (CMHA)
- Community Resources for Justice
- Courage House (Maine Reentry Services)
- Dismas Home of NH
- Dismas House
- Dismas House (East Allen)
- Dismas House of Vermont
- Dismas of New Hampshire
- Dismas of Vermont
- Essex Community Justice Center
- Franklin/Grand Isle Restorative Justice Center
- Garden Time
- Gavin Foundation
- Hamden County Sheriff All-Inclusive Support Services
- Hampshire House – Community Resources For Justice
- Houston House (CRJ Reentry Center)
- Jenna’s Promise
- Justice Assistance (JA)
- Legendary Legacies
- Maine Access Points (MAP)
- Maine Coastal Regional Reentry Center (Volunteers of America NNE)
- Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition
- Maine Reentry Network
- Mass Bail Fund
- Mercy Connections
- Montpelier Community Justice Center
- New Beginnings Re-Entry Serices
- New England Prison Ministries, Inc. Lowell
- NH Dept. of Corrections – Rehabilitative Services
- Northeast Kingdom Community Action
- Open Sky – Behavioral Health Justice Involved (BH-JI) Program
- Orange County Restorative Justice Center
- Partakers
- Polaris MEP
- Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts
- Probation Information Network
- Project M.O.R.E., Inc.
- Recovery Connections of Maine
- Reentry Campus Program
- Reentry Campus Program (RCP)
- Reentry Resources Counseling
- Reentry Sisters
- Restorative Justice Programs and Services
- Restorative Justice Project Maine (RJP Maine)
- Revive Recovery Center
- RIDOC Reentry Services Unit (RIDOC = RI Dept. of Corrections)
- Roca Holyoke
- Roca Lynn
- Second Street Second Chances
- SOS Recovery Center (Rochester)
- SOS Recovery Community Organization (Dover)
- Southern Maine Women’s Reentry Center (MDOC)
- St. John’s Episcopal Church
- St. Johnsbury Community Restorative Justice Center
- Straight Ahead Ministries (MA)
- The Center for Teen Empowerment
- The RI Reentry Collaborative
- The WorkPlace – Second Chance Re‑Entry Program
- Turning Point Center
- Uncornered
- UTEC
- Vermont Catholic Charities
- Vermont Works for Women
- Wellspring Inc.
- Westbay Community Action
- Women’s Dismas House
- Worcester County Sheriff’s Office Community Justice Support Center & Regional Reentry Center
- Working Fields

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