Reentry Housing & Support · Northwest Arkansas
Home is where restoration begins.
Restorative Roots walks with people coming home from incarceration — from the first night out to a place, and a life, that's truly theirs. Hope opens the door. Healing does the work. Housing makes it last.
Why This Matters
Nowhere to go is how people go back.
Housing isn't a reward for reentry — it's the ground everything else stands on. Without it, work, treatment, and family life become nearly impossible. With it, they become possible again.
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Formerly incarcerated people are almost ten times more likely to experience homelessness than the general public.
Prison Policy Initiative, "Nowhere to Go"68%
Of people released from state prison are rearrested within three years — a cycle stable housing and support are shown to interrupt.
U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2018 Update on Prisoner RecidivismOur Approach
Three things, working together.
The name says it plainly. Restoration needs all three — take one away and the other two don't hold.
Hope
Someone who's walked it before
Peer mentors with lived experience of incarceration and reentry, so no one has to figure this out from a stranger's manual.
Healing
Trauma-informed care
Mental health support, recovery resources, and family reconciliation work, delivered by people trained for what incarceration does to a person and the people who love them.
Housing
A key that's actually theirs
Transitional beds for the first, hardest weeks, and a clear path to a lease with someone's own name on it.
Get Involved
This works because people show up for it.
Restorative Roots runs on donors, volunteers, and partners willing to bet on someone's second chapter.
Donate
Every gift goes toward beds, case management, and the everyday costs of getting someone from a cell to a home.
Give NowVolunteer
Mentor, tutor, help with move-ins, or lend a professional skill — resumes, job coaching, or legal aid.
See RolesRefer Someone
Coming home soon, or love someone who is? Reach out and we'll walk you through what happens next.
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