Restoring Our Communities

mselves, their families and the broader community. ROC has partnered with the Underground Scholars Initiative at UC Berkeley, the Alameda County Community Food Bank, and Building Opportunities for Self-sufficiency to provide resources, academic guidance, peer-support, and inclusive community by:

1) Pipelining formerly incarcerated students into living wage job industries through community partnerships and Laney College’s Career and Technical Education Programs.

2) Creating a peer mentoring center/service to create a community cohort that supports academic transfer to 4-year institutions.

3) On-ramping formerly incarcerated women of color into either of the two above strands.

4) Developing an Emergency Food Distribution Model with design emphasis on systems impacted students (formerly incarcerated, on community supervision, with incarcerated family members) that will expand services into an institutionalized Emergency Food Pantry. We ask that you share ROC’s page and information with anyone you think may benefit from knowing about us. We also welcome your interest if you wish to collaborate with us to ensure ROC achieves its goals and remains a sustainable program that can expand to serve community colleges statewide and nationwide. PLEASE STAY TUNED…more information coming soon!