A New Way of Life Reentry Project

A just, equitable recovery from a disaster starts with meeting the needs of those most destitute. In response to the January wildfires in Los Angeles County, A New Way of Life opened a distribution center in Montebello to provide essential goods, clothing, toiletries, and gift cards to displaced families from Altadena. In partnership with a local church, we’re delivering immediate relief while building a scalable, community-led model for equitable disaster response.

A New Way of Life Reentry Project (ANWOL) provides trauma-informed, no-time limit housing for formerly incarcerated women that rejects the replication of carceral practices and centers healing, autonomy, and mutual care. This grant will help sustain a nationally recognized model that replaces punishment with possibility, ending cycles of incarceration and housing instability through community-rooted transformation.

Women leaving incarceration face a multitude of seemingly insurmountable challenges. Too often these challenges lead to homelessness or re-incarceration. Now in our 25th year, A New Way of Life Reentry Project (ANWOL) is a nationally acclaimed, Black-led organization poised to transform the U.S. approach to criminal justice. ANWOL promotes healing, power building, and opportunity for formerly incarcerated women by taking a multifaceted approach to housing, community and reentry.