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Center for Community Transitions - Charlotte NC
Your help needed to get our new literacy and tutoring program off the ground
Families Doing Time‘s new Literacy and Tutoring Program needs your help. We are seeking space, books, and volunteers. The program will serve children who have an incarcerated loved one. We are seeking a space located in West Charlotte that is easy to get to. We need two rooms. One room for up to 40 people…
Celebrating the life of CCT Volunteer, Betty Ritchie
We are deeply saddened to announce that last month we lost a member of the CCT family. Betty Ritchie was a tireless volunteer with our Center for Women for many years and touched the lives of so many of our residents. She was our Center for Women Volunteer of the Year in 2017, but she…
WEF Gives Incarcerated Women the Gift of Education
Education is a key component to successful reentry. A 2013 study found that education while incarcerated lowers recidivism by an average of 43% alone. More important that the statistics though, are the real stories of individuals who turn their lives around with the help of education. That’s why at CCT we make sure all of…
CCT’s Center for Women Celebrates 30 Years
On September 6th, The Center for Community Transitions (CCT)’s Center for Women celebrated its 30th anniversary of operation and was joined by elected officials and other dignitaries for cake and powerful testimonies from employers and former residents. The Center for Women is a thirty bed residential reentry facility for women who are still incarcerated and…
Back in Style 2018 a Success!
CCT held it’s annual Back In Style event on Thursday, August 23rd. The annual back to school event helps children with incarcerated parents prepare for the new school year by providing school supplies, school uniforms, and free haircuts and hair styles. This year we provided 225 children with bookbags and school supples, completed 103 free…
A Message from A Summer Intern
One of our summer interns, Kate Capitano, wrote the following: An official goodbye to one of the most special places in my life: the days were never easy and the love was tough but for that exact reason I can say this summer I finally felt what it means to make the conscious decision to…
Iris Thomas’ Release Story
“I can’t even explain it in words!’ Iris exclaims as she starts her release interview with me. “Everything I’ve been hustling for my whole adult life has come to be in the last 6 months”. It is August 8th, 2018, and Iris Thomas who will be 69 years young next week, is leaving prison by…
We’re BBB Certified!!!
We are thrilled to announce that we received top marks from the BBB’s 20 standards for Charitable Accountability.? Read the full report here.
United Way, Awards And New Faces (June 2018)
May was crazy! First there was the great turnout for Spring Fling 2018, and the Women’s Impact Fund awarded Families Doing Time the Human Services Grant.? On June 7, the United Way Board voted to support CCT with $172,250 funding for FY19.? These are important investments in our organization,?and will help us improve the economic…