{"id":1622,"date":"2019-10-26T19:12:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T19:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateful.org\/betterdev\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2025-04-07T18:21:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T18:21:41","slug":"reformed-church-of-bronxville-coming-home-program-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateful.org\/betterdev\/reformed-church-of-bronxville-coming-home-program-3\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Coming Home&#8221; Program of Communities for Healing and Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stateful.org\/betterdev\/wp-images\/IMG_3132-1024x804.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"804\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateful.org\/betterdev\/wp-images\/IMG_3132-1024x804.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stateful.org\/betterdev\/wp-images\/IMG_3132-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateful.org\/betterdev\/wp-images\/IMG_3132-768x603.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stateful.org\/betterdev\/wp-images\/IMG_3132.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For more thqn nine years we have collaborated with Communities for Healing and Justice on their Coming Home program for people returning from incarceration. The program brings together a cohort of formerly incarcerated participants with the larger community for weekly meals and programs. We have been invited each year to do one of the opening sessions for men and women returning home from incarceration. We invite each participant to ask themselves \u201cWhat would better look like?\u201d  The answers are always personal and poignant. Sometimes it is as simple as finding a job\u2014or it can be envisioning a long held dream. We meet in a circle with the participants\u2014the circle symbolizing the equality of each person who enters the circle. At the end of each session we present each participant with a small piece of magnetic hematite. Each small stone represents that, even when they complete the program, we remain committed to staying connected with them and supporting them. In addition to presenting at one of the sessions, we attend the weekly community dinners as a way to cultivate our shared vision for building The Beloved Community. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than nine years we have collaborated with Communities for Healing and Justice on their &#8220;Coming Home&#8221; program for people returning from incarceration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-programs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateful.org\/betterdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateful.org\/betterdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateful.org\/betterdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateful.org\/betterdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateful.org\/betterdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stateful.org\/betterdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2608,"href":"https:\/\/stateful.org\/betterdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions\/2608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateful.org\/betterdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateful.org\/betterdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateful.org\/betterdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateful.org\/betterdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}