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Join us for our monthly Embraced:Fully Angel Team Workshop on Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 6:00 PM (Pacific) on Zoom. Guests are always welcome.
\nThis month, we will focus on practical support and getting ready for reentry: what real support looks like, how to communicate with people inside, and how the September Embraced & Empowered Conference can help train more Ready for Reentry partners.
\nRight now, men and women inside are doing real reentry preparation: naming their goals, facing hard truths, and building plans for life after release. What the course cannot give them by itself is someone steady on the outside. That is where trained partners, local communities, and Angel Teams matter.
\nThe July workshop will be a practical working conversation about what support can look like before and after release: steady communication, clear boundaries, concrete help, and inviting the right people into this work before September.
\nJoin our mailing list to receive the Zoom invite for our meetings.
\n
September 18-19, 2026 – Boulder, Colorado + Zoom
Become a Ready for Reentry partner and learn how to walk steadily with someone preparing to come home.
1. Introductions & Announcements
\nShare who you are, where you are serving, and any current updates from Angel Teams or returning community members.
2. Sharing What Practical Support Looks Like
\nConcrete ways Angel Teams can help: communication, transportation, documents, housing, job readiness, steady friendship, spiritual encouragement, and healthy boundaries.
3. Communicating With Inmates
\nWe will revisit Securus and other facility communication systems, including practical expectations, tone, consistency, and safety.
4. Getting Ready for Reentry: Conference Review and Sign-Ups
\nWe will review the September Embraced & Empowered Conference, who should attend, and how to invite faith communities, reentry partners, returning citizens, families, and volunteers.
5. Shared Needs, Next Steps & Closing
\nTime for emerging needs, next steps, and staying connected as we continue building communities of support.
The 2026 Embraced & Empowered Conference will be held Friday and Saturday, September 18-19, 2026, with participation available in Boulder and online. The Foundations training is designed for people who want to become Ready for Reentry partners: steady, trained support for someone preparing to come home.
\nView the conference details or register now. Registration is pay what you can.
\nThis is a working meeting for Angel Teams nationwide and anyone interested in starting or joining a team, volunteering remotely, or simply learning more about reentry support. Together, we help returning community members build new lives and avoid re-incarceration through love, structure, and spiritual guidance.
\nCatch up on past meetings and inspiring stories at Embraced:Fully Videos.
\nIn partnership with others, Embraced:Fully supports incarcerated and returning citizens in their moral and spiritual journey toward successful reentry. Through Angel Team members, we help connect individuals with community, faith, housing, employment, transportation, friendship, and mentorship, building bridges of hope and belonging.
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Note: Please be sure to select “Embraced Fully” in the “Fund” drop-down list on the donation page.
If you would like to support the work of Embraced:Fully with a check instead of an online donation, please make it out to:
\n\n\n\nThe Principle Foundation
Memo: Restricted – Embraced:Fully Project
Mail to: 10670 Barkley St, Overland Park, KS 66212-1861
View additional donation options here
\n\n\n\nPlease remember to specify Embraced:Fully as the program you’d like to support.
\n\n\n\nEmbraced:Fully is a fiscally sponsored program of The Principle Foundation, registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, tax ID number 43-0816306.
\nWatch the replay of our conversation with Jacquin Webb, founder and executive director of Reconnect 180 in Carson City, Nevada.
\nAfter 20 years of incarceration, Jacquin came home with a box of belongings and the practical question so many people face on day one: what comes next? In this interview, he shares how that experience became a calling to help other returning citizens prepare before release and find support after they come home.
\nJacquin\u2019s story moves from the first shock of release into the work of service: meeting people before the gate opens, helping them navigate identification, housing, employment, transportation, and the ordinary choices that can feel overwhelming after years inside.
\nJacquin Webb is the founder and executive director of Reconnect 180. Through its 90/90 model, Reconnect 180 supports people in the final 90 days before release and the first 90 days after they return home.
\nHis work is rooted in lived experience, faith, and the conviction that people coming home need more than encouragement. They need real tools, real relationships, and a clear path forward.
\nTo learn more about Jacquin\u2019s work, visit Reconnect 180. You can also support Reconnect 180 directly.
\nJoin our mailing list to be notified about upcoming interviews and events.
\nCatch up on past interviews and inspiring stories at Embraced:Fully Videos.
\nIn partnership with others, Embraced:Fully supports incarcerated and returning citizens in their moral and spiritual journey toward successful reentry. Through Angel Team members, we help connect individuals with community, faith, housing, employment, transportation, friendship, and mentorship, building bridges of hope and belonging.
\nSupport Embraced:Fully to help build bridges of hope and belonging for returning citizens.
\n", "content_text": "Watch the replay of our conversation with Jacquin Webb, founder and executive director of Reconnect 180 in Carson City, Nevada.\nAfter 20 years of incarceration, Jacquin came home with a box of belongings and the practical question so many people face on day one: what comes next? In this interview, he shares how that experience became a calling to help other returning citizens prepare before release and find support after they come home.\nJacquin\u2019s story moves from the first shock of release into the work of service: meeting people before the gate opens, helping them navigate identification, housing, employment, transportation, and the ordinary choices that can feel overwhelming after years inside.\nAbout Our Guest: Jacquin Webb\nJacquin Webb is the founder and executive director of Reconnect 180. Through its 90/90 model, Reconnect 180 supports people in the final 90 days before release and the first 90 days after they return home.\nHis work is rooted in lived experience, faith, and the conviction that people coming home need more than encouragement. They need real tools, real relationships, and a clear path forward.\nIn This Interview\n\nThe first days home after 20 years and why normal choices can become overwhelming.\nHow Reconnect 180 began with handwritten resource lists outside parole and probation.\nWhy the 90 days before and after release matter for preparation, trust, and practical follow-through.\nThe barriers that most often derail people, including identification, housing, transportation, employment, isolation, and anxiety.\nWhat volunteers, churches, and Angel Teams can learn about offering steady support without overpromising.\n\nTo learn more about Jacquin\u2019s work, visit Reconnect 180. You can also support Reconnect 180 directly.\n\nJoin our mailing list to be notified about upcoming interviews and events.\n\n\nVideo Replays\nCatch up on past interviews and inspiring stories at Embraced:Fully Videos.\n\nOur Mission\nIn partnership with others, Embraced:Fully supports incarcerated and returning citizens in their moral and spiritual journey toward successful reentry. Through Angel Team members, we help connect individuals with community, faith, housing, employment, transportation, friendship, and mentorship, building bridges of hope and belonging.\nSupport Embraced:Fully to help build bridges of hope and belonging for returning citizens.", "date_published": "2026-06-23T12:43:04-07:00", "date_modified": "2026-07-03T14:14:26-07:00", "authors": [ { "name": "Gabriel Serafini", "url": "https://embracedfully.org/author/admin/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/24bddbb394eff14300a8d1b157a5407e4c7c907bc3c74f4f50f8313e8ef70c0f?s=512&d=mm&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "Gabriel Serafini", "url": "https://embracedfully.org/author/admin/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/24bddbb394eff14300a8d1b157a5407e4c7c907bc3c74f4f50f8313e8ef70c0f?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://i0.wp.com/embracedfully.org/files/2026/07/selected-i-vowed-never-return.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1", "tags": [ "Embraced:Fully Interview Series", "Video" ] }, { "id": "https://embracedfully.org/?p=2598", "url": "https://embracedfully.org/angel-team-june-2026/", "title": "You\u2019re Invited: Angel Team Workshop Thursday, June 18 \u2013 Getting Ready for Reentry in Our Faith-Based Communities", "content_html": "![\"Ready](\"https://i0.wp.com/embracedfully.org/files/2026/06/angel-team-june-2026-panel-50.jpg?resize=600%2C335&ssl=1\")
Join us for our monthly Embraced:Fully Angel Team Workshop on Thursday, June 18, 2026 at 6:00 PM (Pacific) on Zoom. Guests are always welcome.
\nThis month, we will discuss getting ready for reentry in our faith-based communities: what is already working, where the challenges are showing up, and what open questions we need to carry together.
\nFaith communities can become one of the strongest forms of reentry support. A congregation, branch church, study group, or small circle of volunteers can offer something many returning community members need deeply: steady relationship, moral and spiritual encouragement, practical help, and a place where they are not reduced to the worst chapter of their life.
\nBut good intentions are not the same as readiness. Welcoming someone home well often asks more of us than warmth alone. It asks for humility, coordination, healthy boundaries, clarity about what we can and cannot provide, and a willingness to learn from people who have lived through incarceration and reentry firsthand.
\nJoin our mailing list to receive the Zoom invite for our meetings.
\n1. Introductions & Announcements
\nShare who you are, where you are serving, and any current updates from Angel Teams or returning community members.
2. Regional Angel Team Updates
\nProgress, questions, challenges, and encouraging developments from Angel Teams around the country.
3. Discussion Topic: Getting Ready for Reentry in Our Faith-Based Communities
\nWe will look at what helps a church or faith community prepare to welcome and support someone coming home: communication, trust, practical needs, spiritual care, team roles, and coordination with existing reentry resources.
4. Successes, Challenges & Open Questions
\nThis will be a shared conversation. We want to hear what has worked, where people have felt underprepared, and what questions Angel Teams are carrying as this work grows.
5. Shared Needs, Next Steps & Closing
\nTime for emerging needs, next steps, and staying connected as we continue building communities of support.
This is a working meeting for Angel Teams nationwide and anyone interested in starting or joining a team, volunteering remotely, or simply learning more about reentry support. Together, we help returning community members build new lives and avoid re-incarceration through love, structure, and spiritual guidance.
\nCatch up on past meetings and inspiring stories at Embraced:Fully Videos.
\nIn partnership with others, Embraced:Fully supports incarcerated and returning citizens in their moral and spiritual journey toward successful reentry. Through Angel Team members, we help connect individuals with community, faith, housing, employment, transportation, friendship, and mentorship, building bridges of hope and belonging.
\n Note: Please be sure to select “Embraced Fully” in the “Fund” drop-down list on the donation page.
If you would like to support the work of Embraced:Fully with a check instead of an online donation, please make it out to:
\n\n\n\nThe Principle Foundation
Memo: Restricted – Embraced:Fully Project
Mail to: 10670 Barkley St, Overland Park, KS 66212-1861
View additional donation options here
\n\n\n\nPlease remember to specify Embraced:Fully as the program you’d like to support.
\n\n\n\nEmbraced:Fully is a fiscally sponsored program of The Principle Foundation, registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, tax ID number 43-0816306.
\nIn this Embraced:Fully Interview Series conversation, Alfredo (Al) Cruz and Sister Mary Sean Hodges from the Partnership for Re-Entry Program (PREP) talk with David Fowler about what real parole board preparation requires: accountability, honesty, insight, community support, and the long work of preparing to come home.
\nThe replay also includes a short Ready for Reentry course clip from Carlos Vasquez near the end of the interview.
\nPrefer audio only? Use the player below, or download the MP3 for offline listening.
\n\n\nSister Mary Sean Hodges, O.P., a Dominican Sister of Mission San Jose, founded PREP after years of ministry with crime victims, incarcerated people, and their families. PREP grew out of a restorative justice vision and serves incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people through courses, parole preparation, and reentry support.
\nAlfredo (Al) Cruz was paroled in 2015 after more than 28 years of incarceration. He returned to PREP as a volunteer reviewing Spanish Insight work and later joined the staff. His work is grounded in the conviction that people who want to help themselves prepare well should have meaningful support as they work toward coming home.
\nThis interview is for Angel Team members, chaplains, families, volunteers, and anyone who wants to understand how serious preparation, community support, and spiritual growth can help open a path toward successful reentry.
\nJoin our mailing list to be notified about upcoming interviews and events.
\nCatch up on past interviews and inspiring stories at Embraced:Fully Videos.
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In partnership with others, Embraced:Fully supports incarcerated and returning citizens in their moral and spiritual journey toward successful reentry. Through Angel Team members, we help connect individuals with community, faith, housing, employment, transportation, friendship, and mentorship, building bridges of hope and belonging.
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Join us for our monthly Embraced:Fully Angel Team Workshop on Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 6:00 PM (Pacific) on Zoom. Guests are always welcome.
\nThis month, AmiLynne Carroll, our National Angel Team Coordinator, will share practical ideas about communicating effectively with incarcerated individuals.
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Writing to someone in prison, visiting, corresponding, or simply offering steady spiritual support can feel straightforward from the outside. But inside, words can carry a different weight. Tone, clarity, consistency, hope, and respect all matter. This will be a practical conversation for anyone who is already serving, anyone preparing to serve, and anyone who wants to understand how communication can support genuine reentry preparation.
\nJoin our mailing list to receive the Zoom invite for our meetings.
\n1. Introductions & Announcements
\nShare who you are, where you are serving, and any current updates from Angel Teams or returning community members.
2. Regional Angel Team Updates
\nProgress, questions, challenges, and encouraging developments from Angel Teams around the country.
3. Featured Teaching: Communicating Effectively With Incarcerated Individuals
\nAmiLynne Carroll will share practical ideas for thoughtful, steady, and respectful communication with people who are incarcerated.
4. Group Discussion
\nWe will leave time for questions and shared experience around correspondence, visiting, boundaries, encouragement, and helping people prepare for life after release.
5. Shared Needs, Next Steps & Closing
\nTime for emerging needs, next steps, and staying connected as this work continues to grow.
This is a working meeting for Angel Teams nationwide and anyone interested in starting or joining a team, volunteering remotely, or simply learning more about reentry support. Together, we help returning community members build new lives and avoid re-incarceration through love, structure, and spiritual guidance.
\nCatch up on past meetings and inspiring stories at Embraced:Fully Videos.
\nIn partnership with others, Embraced:Fully supports incarcerated and returning citizens in their moral and spiritual journey toward successful reentry. Through Angel Team members, we help connect individuals with community, faith, housing, employment, transportation, friendship, and mentorship, building bridges of hope and belonging.
\n Note: Please be sure to select “Embraced Fully” in the “Fund” drop-down list on the donation page.
If you would like to support the work of Embraced:Fully with a check instead of an online donation, please make it out to:
\n\n\n\nThe Principle Foundation
Memo: Restricted – Embraced:Fully Project
Mail to: 10670 Barkley St, Overland Park, KS 66212-1861
View additional donation options here
\n\n\n\nPlease remember to specify Embraced:Fully as the program you’d like to support.
\n\n\n\nEmbraced:Fully is a fiscally sponsored program of The Principle Foundation, registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, tax ID number 43-0816306.
\nSentenced to 26 years to life, Michael James found something inside prison that he says set him free eight years before he ever came home — Christian Science. In this Embraced:Fully Interview, Michael talks with David Fowler about how a chance encounter with Science and Health rebuilt his thinking, his relationships, and his life — from a violent prison yard to Cal State LA, marriage, and a life of helping others.
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Michael James was sentenced to 26 years to life in state prison. Today he is rebuilding a life shaped by faith, discipline, service, and purpose.
\nChristian Science played a defining role in that transformation. Michael is now pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting at California State University, Los Angeles, working with Caltrans as a Back-Up Driver, building his car hauling business Catch a Ride Service, teaching financial literacy through Trap House Trading Academy, and developing the Community Chess Blueprint to help keep resources circulating within the community.
\nThe conversation explores what real transformation actually looks like — not as an idea, but in practice: faith, accountability, reentry, work, and building something that lasts.
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Catch up on past interviews and inspiring stories:
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In partnership with others, Embraced:Fully supports incarcerated and returning citizens in their moral and spiritual journey toward successful reentry. Through Angel Team members, we help connect individuals with community, faith, housing, employment, transportation, friendship, and mentorship — building bridges of hope and belonging.
\n Note: Please be sure to select “Embraced Fully” in the “Fund” drop-down list on the donation page.
If you would like to support the work of Embraced:Fully with a check instead of an online donation, please make it out to:
\n\n\n\nThe Principle Foundation
Memo: Restricted – Embraced:Fully Project
Mail to: 10670 Barkley St, Overland Park, KS 66212-1861
View additional donation options here
\n\n\n\nPlease remember to specify Embraced:Fully as the program you’d like to support.
\n\n\n\nEmbraced:Fully is a fiscally sponsored program of The Principle Foundation, registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, tax ID number 43-0816306.
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Join us for our monthly Embraced:Fully Angel Team Workshop on Thursday, April 16, 2026 at 6:00 PM (Pacific) on Zoom. Guests are always welcome.
\nOne part of this month’s meeting will be a brief conversation about AI tools in our work — a few early examples of where they may be useful, a few questions worth holding, and how they might support rather than replace the human relationships at the heart of reentry support.
\n\n Join our mailing list to receive the Zoom invite for our meetings.\n
\n1. Introductions & Announcements
\nShare who you are, where you’re serving, and any current updates from Angel Teams or returning community members.
2. Regional Angel Team Updates
\nProgress, challenges, and encouraging developments from Angel Teams around the country.
3. Volunteer Chaplain Check-ins
\nUpdates from visiting and corresponding chaplains supporting inmates and returning community members.
4. Discussion: AI Tools in Our Work
\nWe’ll touch on a few early examples of where AI tools may be helpful and a few questions to keep in view as we experiment.
5. Shared Needs, Next Steps & Closing
\nTime for questions, emerging needs, and next steps for staying connected and moving the work forward.
This is a working meeting for Angel Teams nationwide and anyone interested in starting or joining a team, volunteering remotely, or simply learning more about reentry support. Together, we help returning community members build new lives and avoid re-incarceration through love, structure, and spiritual guidance.
\nCatch up on past meetings and inspiring stories at Embraced:Fully Videos.
\nIn partnership with others, Embraced:Fully supports incarcerated and returning citizens in their moral and spiritual journey toward successful reentry. Through Angel Team members, we help connect individuals with community, faith, housing, employment, transportation, friendship, and mentorship, building bridges of hope and belonging.
\n Note: Please be sure to select “Embraced Fully” in the “Fund” drop-down list on the donation page.
If you would like to support the work of Embraced:Fully with a check instead of an online donation, please make it out to:
\n\n\n\nThe Principle Foundation
Memo: Restricted – Embraced:Fully Project
Mail to: 10670 Barkley St, Overland Park, KS 66212-1861
View additional donation options here
\n\n\n\nPlease remember to specify Embraced:Fully as the program you’d like to support.
\n\n\n\nEmbraced:Fully is a fiscally sponsored program of The Principle Foundation, registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, tax ID number 43-0816306.
\nRhonda Bear shares how addiction, incarceration, faith, and community became the foundation for She Brews Coffee & Transition Program, a growing network of transitional homes, and reform work across Oklahoma.
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A mother, wife, daughter, sister, and former inmate 377488, Rhonda Bear has dedicated her life to restoration and breaking generational cycles. As a social worker, founder of She Brews Coffee & Transition Program, and Program Director for Stand in the Gap Ministries, she helps formerly incarcerated women rebuild their lives with dignity, structure, and purpose.
\nSince 2008, Rhonda has opened transitional housing for people leaving incarceration, beginning with a single women's house and growing into a network that now includes housing for men, women, mothers with children, and families. In Oklahoma, she has also become a leading advocate for reform, serving on the Board of Directors for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections as the first formerly incarcerated person in the United States appointed to that role.
\nRhonda's work is rooted in the conviction that when a life is restored, entire families and future generations can be changed. Through highly structured programming, practical life training, faith, accountability, and community, she continues to help women move from survival to lasting transformation.
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Catch up on past interviews and inspiring stories:
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In partnership with others, Embraced:Fully supports incarcerated and returning citizens in their moral and spiritual journey toward successful reentry. Through Angel Team members, we help connect individuals with community, faith, housing, employment, transportation, friendship, and mentorship – building bridges of hope and belonging.
\n Note: Please be sure to select “Embraced Fully” in the “Fund” drop-down list on the donation page.
If you would like to support the work of Embraced:Fully with a check instead of an online donation, please make it out to:
\n\n\n\nThe Principle Foundation
Memo: Restricted – Embraced:Fully Project
Mail to: 10670 Barkley St, Overland Park, KS 66212-1861
View additional donation options here
\n\n\n\nPlease remember to specify Embraced:Fully as the program you’d like to support.
\n\n\n\nEmbraced:Fully is a fiscally sponsored program of The Principle Foundation, registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, tax ID number 43-0816306.
\nListen to this excellent interview with David Fowler, co-founder of Embraced:Fully, published by the Christian Science Publishing Society on March 23, 2026 edition of “Sentinel Watch.”
\n\n“This week, we speak with David Fowler, who shares two incredible experiences\u2014one of his own healing of a drug addiction and overdose, the other of working with a violent offender who\u2019d been incarcerated\u2014and how it\u2019s never too late to \u201cresurrect\u201d and transform your life.”
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/sentinel-audio/sentinel-watch/modern-day-resurrections
\nListen here:
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Note: Please be sure to select “Embraced Fully” in the “Fund” drop-down list on the donation page.
If you would like to support the work of Embraced:Fully with a check instead of an online donation, please make it out to:
\n\n\n\nThe Principle Foundation
Memo: Restricted – Embraced:Fully Project
Mail to: 10670 Barkley St, Overland Park, KS 66212-1861
View additional donation options here
\n\n\n\nPlease remember to specify Embraced:Fully as the program you’d like to support.
\n\n\n\nEmbraced:Fully is a fiscally sponsored program of The Principle Foundation, registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, tax ID number 43-0816306.
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Join us for our monthly Embraced:Fully Angel Team Workshop on Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM (Pacific) on Zoom. Guests are always welcome!
\nThis monthly gathering is a welcoming space to explore how we can support returning citizens—individuals coming home from incarceration—on their path toward stability, healing, and freedom.
\nTogether we’ll discuss:
\nEmbraced:Fully Angel Teams walk alongside returning community members to help them rebuild their lives — offering practical help like housing, transportation, and employment connections, and most importantly, a caring, faith-based community that welcomes them home.
\nWe are thrilled to announce that AmiLynne Carroll is joining Embraced:Fully as our National Angel Team Coordinator. AmiLynne will be working alongside our Angel Teams across the country to strengthen coordination, support new teams as they form, and help ensure that every returning community member has a welcoming network waiting for them.
\nJoin us Thursday to meet AmiLynne and hear about her vision for growing and connecting our Angel Team network nationwide.
\n1. Introductions & Announcements
\nShare who you are and whether you’re currently connected with any returning community members—or would like to be.
2. Welcome AmiLynne Carroll, National Angel Team Coordinator
\nMeet AmiLynne and hear about her role and vision for Angel Teams nationwide.
3. Regional Angel Team Updates
\nProgress, challenges, and success stories from Angel Teams across the country.
4. Volunteer Chaplain Check-ins
\nUpdates from visiting and corresponding chaplains working with inmates and returning citizens.
5. Save the Date — Embraced:Fully Conference 2026 in Boulder, Colorado!
\nWe’re thrilled to share that the 2026 Embraced:Fully Conference is officially coming together! Mark your calendars for September 18–19, 2026 in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. We’ve secured a group hotel rate at the Embassy Suites Boulder—and you can book your room now at the discounted rate (deadline: August 24, 2026). We’ll share early details about what to expect—including an Angel Team Network national gathering, course updates, and partner sessions—and we’d love to hear what topics and sessions you’d like to see at the conference.
6. Next Steps & Closing
\nConfirm upcoming meeting dates and next steps.
This is a working meeting for Angel Teams nationwide and anyone interested in starting or joining a team, volunteering remotely, or simply learning more about reentry support. Together, we help returning community members build new lives and avoid re-incarceration through love, structure, and spiritual guidance.
\nCatch up on past meetings and inspiring stories:
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In partnership with others, Embraced:Fully supports incarcerated and returning citizens in their moral and spiritual journey toward successful reentry.
\nThrough Angel Team members, we help connect individuals with community, faith, housing, employment, transportation, friendship, and mentorship—building bridges of hope and belonging.
\u2197\ufe0f Note: Please be sure to select “Embraced Fully” in the “Fund” drop-down list on the donation page.
\n\n\n\nIf you would like to support the work of Embraced:Fully with a check instead of an online donation, please make it out to:
\n\n\n\nThe Principle Foundation
Memo: Restricted – Embraced:Fully Project
Mail to: 10670 Barkley St, Overland Park, KS 66212-1861
View additional donation options here
\n\n\n\nPlease remember to specify Embraced:Fully as the program you’d like to support.
\n\n\n\nEmbraced:Fully is a fiscally sponsored program of The Principle Foundation, registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, tax ID number 43-0816306.
\n\u2197\ufe0f Note: Please be sure to select “Embraced Fully” in the “Fund” drop-down list on the donation page.
\n\n\n\nIf you would like to support the work of Embraced:Fully with a check instead of an online donation, please make it out to:
\n\n\n\nThe Principle Foundation
Memo: Restricted – Embraced:Fully Project
Mail to: 10670 Barkley St, Overland Park, KS 66212-1861
View additional donation options here
\n\n\n\nPlease remember to specify Embraced:Fully as the program you’d like to support.
\n\n\n\nEmbraced:Fully is a fiscally sponsored program of The Principle Foundation, registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, tax ID number 43-0816306.
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