Inside Out: Breaking Barriers, Building Futures 🌞
Inside Out: Breaking Barriers, Building Futures 🌞(September 2025 newsletter)
Inside Out: Breaking Barriers, Building Futures 🌞(September 2025 newsletter)
💛 Grateful & Growing – July at Inside Out Reentry Community (July 2025 Newsletter)
Inside Out Reentry Community has been busy the past few months and we’re so grateful for our supporters and volunteers who help us further our mission of supporting those returning after incarceration.Acceptance Commitment Group – Skills Building In March and April we facilitated a six-week ACT (Acceptance Commitment Training) Group. This group is focused Read more
Creativity can sprout anywhere. Impressionist drawings of lush landscapes, water-colored paintings infused with Kool-Aid and coffee, and intricate and detailed portraits of celebrities are just a few of the dozens of art pieces that will be displayed at Public Space One’s “Art from the Inside Out” exhibition. The yearly offering Read more
Community members packed the Feb. 7 opening reception of the “Art from the Inside Out” exhibition at Public Space One’s Close House, giving me the feel-goods. I saw a woman I used to work with and met her mother; I saw friends and met their grandchild. Artists and their families Read more

Our mission: to support people involved in the criminal legal system in changing from the inside out, and to educate the public, in order to promote healing, restore relationships and achieve success in the community.
Just a few of our support numbers from 2024!

Help us rebuild these individuals’ lives with dignity, purpose, and hope. (more…)

We’re Kicking Off The Giving Season
Thank you for all of your support throughout this year and we hope you will support our programs with an end-of-the-year donation! We are working harder than ever to help those who are returning to the community after incarceration – with Community Meetings, peer-led support groups, creative writing and art group meetings, financial planning, reentry planning, resume assistance, group social activities, bus passes, and more!
We’ve achieved some amazing milestones this year with our first full year running our Reentry House, and moving to a new location with more space for private consultations. (more…)
| We’re busier than ever at our new office!
Since we moved to our new office we’ve seen a large increase in individuals stopping in to receive services finding employment, housing, connection to community resources and general reentry support. Our new space allows for more private meetings and we have increased space for our resource closet and computer area. Stop in and say hello at 804 S. Capitol St. in Iowa City if you are in the area. Thanks to AlphaGraphics North Liberty for the new sign! |