About Embraced:Fully
People deserve more than a release date. They deserve a real path home.
Embraced:Fully helps people prepare for life after prison—and helps communities prepare to welcome them.
We bring together returning citizens, faith communities, reentry organizations, and individual volunteers to build practical, lasting support grounded in dignity, responsibility, and relationship.
What we do
Preparation inside. Connection outside. A community ready to help.
Successful reentry takes more than a plan. It takes practical tools, trusted relationships, and people who will walk alongside someone without taking away their agency.
Prepare
Through Ready for Reentry, people in correctional facilities strengthen character, build practical skills, and prepare for the decisions and responsibilities that come with returning home.
Connect
We help people identify faith communities, reentry resources, and trusted volunteers who may become part of a responsible support network before and after release.
Equip
We train volunteers and organizations to offer useful, boundaried support—listening well, making warm referrals, and helping people turn plans into verified next steps.
Our vision
A world where transformation continues after the prison gate.
We envision returning citizens contributing to healing in their families and communities and becoming trusted neighbors, mentors, and pillars of society.
Our mission
Support the whole journey home.
In partnership with others, we support people in their moral and spiritual journey toward successful reentry—with connections to community, faith, housing, employment, transportation, friendship, mentorship, and other essential resources.
How we work
Partnership makes the path stronger.
Embraced:Fully coordinates with the interfaith community, reentry organizations, volunteer chaplains, and individuals across the country. We add connection and continuity without trying to replace the professionals already serving each person.
Dignity and agency
Returning citizens remain the authors of their own lives. We offer tools, choices, encouragement, and accountability—not control.
Responsible relationships
Trust grows through consistency, clear boundaries, honest communication, and support that is safe for everyone involved.
Practical follow-through
A plan becomes useful when the next step is real. We help people move toward verified connections and concrete resources.
Faith without barriers
We welcome faith communities of every tradition, people with no faith affiliation, experienced professionals, and individual volunteers.
Gather and learn
Two monthly conversations. One growing community.
Our Zoom gatherings help people learn from lived experience, strengthen their practice, and stay connected to the work.
Voices of Reentry
An interview with a returning citizen, practitioner, or other expert in prison ministry and reentry.
Angel Team Working Meeting
An interactive workshop where volunteers share practical ideas and learn how to support program participants responsibly.
Our story
Rooted in one community. Growing through many.
Embraced:Fully was founded in 2020 to improve reentry success for returning citizens in the Christian Science community.
Since then, the work has expanded into an interfaith network of returning citizens, faith-based organizations, reentry professionals, chaplains, and volunteers working toward the same goal: helping people come home with a stronger foundation and a community ready to receive them.
Each year, the Embraced & Empowered Conference brings that community together for shared learning, honest conversation, and practical training.
Find your place
You do not need to have every answer to become part of someone’s welcome home.
Start by learning what the need looks like near you, then choose the next step that fits your experience and capacity.
