PROJECT RETURN

Mission Statement

Project RETURN (Returning Ex-incarcerated people To Urban Realities and Neighborhoods) exists to help men and women make a positive, permanent return to community, family and friends.

COVID Update

Due to concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, the offices of Project RETURN will be closed. During this time the staff will continue to work with clients remotely to address re-entry issues. Please feel free to contact us for remote assistance at the link below.

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Support Expansion of Treatment and Diversion Funding

We invite you to join us in signing a Letter to the Joint Finance Committee to Support Treatment and Diversion (TAD) that asks our leaders to support expanded TAD funding. This expanded funding will contribute to public safety while potentially extending other programs, including mental health treatment court in Milwaukee County.

The purpose of mental health treatment courts is to divert from jail to treatment people with serious mental disorders who are charged with misdemeanors and non-violent felonies. In Senate Bill 111 ,Governor Tony Evers’ 2021 budget plan opens the opportunity for TAD funding to be extended beyond Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse counseling and into specialty courts such as mental health treatment courts.

With the support of TAD funding, the mental health treatment court could expand from serving 5 to as many as 100 people in the Milwaukee area.

We need your support to make it happen. Learn more about how you can support at the link below.

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Statement on The Racial Social Justice Movement

Project RETURN has been working towards social justice for 40 years. Our core mission is to help formerly incarcerated individuals make a positive and permanent return to our Milwaukee community. Our daily work with these men and women make obvious to us the structural inequities and systemic racism that exists in our society.

Project RETURN stands in solidarity with the sentiments being expressed by protesters across the city, the state, the country and the world regarding the movement to reduce and eliminate racist practices by institutions and individuals.