Advocacy Organizations

Civil Survival

• Educate. Motivate. Liberate. The Civil Survival Workshops offer hope as well as a sense of community and purpose for returning citizens. Formerly incarcerated individuals are often isolated and hopeless. In our Civil Survival Workshops, formerly incarcerated individuals form bonds born of organizing for a cause bigger than themselves. The ongoing Game-Changer Groups are led by formerly incarcerated people and are designed to keep participants engaged in their community and constantly learning more about issues that interfere with their ability to re-engage in society.
• Our Mission [1]
• Contact
  • (206) 602-3463
  • [email protected]

I did the time [2]

• I Did the Time recognizes that individuals with arrest and conviction records are unfairly discriminated against when seeking housing and employment, and hopes to prevent this unfair treatment by educating legislators using real-life stories of rehabilitation and struggle. Join us by telling Washington State legislators: I Did the Crime. I Did the Time. Amend RCW 49.60.030! Email your stories of discrimination and evidence of rehabilitation to: [email protected]

Columbia Legal Service

• Resources to address the legal needs of people with criminal histories.
• About [3]
• Advocacy Issue - Criminal Justice Reform [4]
• Also on Legal Assistance and Literature and King County pages

Formerly Incarcerated Group Healing Together F.I.G.H.T. [5]

• F.I.G.H.T. is an organization that assists, advises, and councils men and women of Asian Pacific Islander descent who are currently incarcerated or have been released. F.I.G.H.T. is also highly active in the advocacy of preventing deportation among our people and people of other ethnicity.
• About Us [6]
• Contact [7]

The Council of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls [8]

• Through support, awareness and advocacy the National Council works to ensure that no policies, laws, practices, organizing and services are made without including our voices and ideas. Nothing about us without us!

Formerly Incarcerated College Graduates Network [9]

• We envision a society in which formerly incarcerated people of all races, genders, sexual orientations, and offense types pursue their dreams as educated and empowered citizens with valued experiences. We see a world in which we have the rights and opportunities needed to make important contributions to our communities and beyond. Our mission is to promote the education and empowerment of formerly incarcerated people through a collective community. We do so by: Strengthening social networks of formerly incarcerated people, Creating spaces for formerly incarcerated people to share and discuss ideas, Changing social perceptions of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, Changing incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people's views of themselves, Promoting and supporting prison and post-prison education, Demonstrating the value of our lived experience, Advocating for criminal justice policy change.

Disability Rights Washington [10]

• We are a private non-profit organization that protects the rights of people with disabilities statewide. Our mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self-determination of people with disabilities. We pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.
• Amplifying Voices of Inmates with Disabilities (AVID)[11]
  • AVID focuses on improving conditions, treatment, services, and reentry for people with disabilities who are incarcerated in our state’s jails and prisons, as well as those who reside at the Special Commitment Center. AVID works to ensure that those who are reentering the community have their voices heard and their rights protected. One Page Informational Flyer [12]
• Resources Tools to Help You [13]
  • Topics: Abuse or Neglect, Accessibility & Assistive Technology, Children and Youth, Education, Employment, Health Care, Housing, Inmate Rights, Legal Assistance, Mental Health, Money Matters, Self-Advocacy, Service Animals, Support Decision Making & Guardianship, Veterans, Voting.
  • Inmate Rights [14]
• Request Services [15]
• Contact Us [16]
• Also on Legal Assistance and Literature page.

Restorative Community Coalition [17]

• The Restorative Community Coalition is in the business of Re-Claiming lives. We are an action oriented coalition advocating for restorative, economic, systemic and social change.
• Who We Are [18]
• Prime Programs [19]
• Contact [20]

Smart Justice Spokane [21]

• Smart Justice Spokane is a broad, diverse coalition of more than 30 organizations, community members, and criminal justice professionals who have come together to advocate for reform of our expensive, ineffective, and unfair criminal justice system.
• Vision [22]
• Coalition Partners [23]
• Contact Us [24]
• Also on Spokane County page.