Phoenix Rising Transitions

“Description AmountTraining & Hospitality 3,043Travel 2,150Insurance 4,707Office Expense 6,113Grant Reimbursement 172,315Filing Fees 2,010Misc Program Costs 8,081”

“Category Beginning of Year End of YearAccounts Receivable 1,489 1,489Fixed Assets-Net 2,956 3,135”

“Category Beginning of Year End of YearAccounts Payable 3,547 2,173”

“Mission Statement-PHOENIX Rising Transitions is a grassroots community-based organization that provides transitional support including education, mentoring and community building with special concern for releasing convicts, ex-convicts and their families, crime victims, and the community at large. Program Accomplishments-1) Prison InReach-We resumed our Prison InReach leadership class in October 2023 after a hiatus due to the Oregon Department of CorrectionsCOVID restrictions at the prison where we hold classes. Three volunteers went in for the weekly class. Four other PHOENIX members also visited the class to provide information about opportunities in the community upon release and to serve as trainers during a leadership intensive. The class started out small with 3-5 regular students per week. Several others visited the class and later joined.2) In-the-Community Projects-Peer Mentoring-We had hired and trained a peer mentor early in 2023 to replace our founder/peer mentor who had passed away the previous year. The new peer resigned in September. We hired two more experienced peer mentors in December and January, but we had to let one go. The remaining peer was an excellent match and set about developing strategies to recruit mentees and bring our mentoring work back to life. Our former pipeline that had relied on our own students in prison had dried up during the pandemic. The new peer established a relationship with federal parole officers and began working with people coming out of the federal prison system. As our in-prison class came back to life, the peer mentor was able to work with a few graduates of our own class as well. Peer worked with 15 mentees (clients) from January 1 when he was hired through the end of the fiscal year. He had 86 unique encounters and 180 contact hours. Tools for Transformation Class-We had a grant to work with formerlyincarcerated people in the community. We launched it in November 2023. The focus of classes was to bring in outside presenters to address various ways to confront stress and living a healthy lifestyle as ways to stay away from substance use disorder and crime. The class covers topics such as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), resiliency, overdose prevention, mindfulness, food preparation, body awareness. In addition to the students, the class includes cultural advisors (people who have been incarcerated and made change in their lives for successful,crime-free living), the facilitator, outside presenters, other staff, and occasional guest participants. 15 unique students participated in two separate cohorts. 3) The Impact of Incarceration on Health-PHOENIX continued to makepresentations at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) School of Nursing to their Populations Class studying the social determinants of health. This had become somewhat less frequent during the pandemic since we couldnt take students into the prison to our class. We continued making presentations with the hope that we could resume having a team of students assigned to us once the prison allows us back in. (Note:this happened the following year.) Students are particularly interested in issues related to substance use disorder and trauma-informed care. In addition to our director, the presentations include one or two PHOENIX members who graduated from our in-prison leadership class. The director gives an overview of the organization, its history, philosophy, and projects, while thegraduates talk about their own experiences of health care in a carceral setting. Presented to approximately 60 students.”