INSIDE CIRCLE'S HEALING HOME
WHERE TRANSFORMATION
TAKES ROOT.
Men leave prison committed to change, but lasting transformation requires more than determination. It requires stability, community, and continued healing. Inside Circle’s Healing Home in Sacramento will provide all of this — offering men the space to rebuild their lives with accountability, purpose, and hope.
OUR STORY
To make this vision possible, we launched a $2.2 million campaign to pay off the property, complete renovations, and prepare the Healing Home to welcome its first residents by September 2026.
Together, we have already raised 65% of our goal.
Impactful work still remains as we fully prepare the Healing Home and ensure a safe, stable, and healing-centered environment for every resident who walks through the door. Through this campaign, we are creating the conditions that make healing possible: consistent support, belonging, and an open door for circle members impacted by trauma or incarceration who are seeking a way forward.
WHY THE HEALING HOME MATTERS
Rooted in our circle-based model, the Healing Home will provide a space for accountability, connection, and growth. Residents will participate in regular healing circles, build life skills, and strengthen their capacity to lead. The Healing Home will offer graduated living spaces, creating a phased path toward independence with each milestone.
It is also an investment in the future of healing-centered support. As residents grow, many will step into leadership as facilitators, mentors, and guides for others, both inside prisons and beyond. Over time, we envision the Healing Home becoming a destination where emerging facilitators from across the country can deepen their leadership skills and strengthen their ability to guide others. Through them, the impact of the home will ripple outward, creating a legacy of healing and transformation for generations to come.
At a time of fear and disconnection in our society, Inside Circle chooses bravery and hope by creating a home where people can heal, belong, and thrive.
Accountability
Residents participate in healing circles that foster honest reflection and mutual support.
Graduated independence
A phased living approach helps residents build skills and confidence at each milestone.
Leadership pipeline
Residents grow into facilitators and mentors, extending healing to others.
THE STORY BEHIND THIS VISION
“Butch wasn’t a “lifer.” He was from Vallejo and only 4 ’11 – 5 feet tall on his best day. A short man. But Butch was a giant in prison and in-circle. He was always the first one sitting in the circle. Butch was in and out of prison most of his adult life and very active in-circle at New Folsom. After his release, he had support from the community, but those volunteers had their own families and responsibilities, but Butch fell through the cracks. He died alone in a mental health hospital for no other reason than he didn’t have a safe place to land or the skills necessary to navigate the available resources for himself out here. It literally broke my heart.”
If Butch had a place like this, with the services and a supportive place to land, he deserved this place — he would have thrived and given a lot back to this community. He and so many others — deserve a complete transformative home like this.
So, when you ask, ‘What does having the Healing Home mean?’ It means everything.“
Aaron Burris - Program Director/Senior Facilitator
A PLACE TO BE WHOLE
The Healing Home is built on a belief that has guided Inside Circle from our beginnings: that everyone touched by the justice system — including those who have been incarcerated, those who love them, and the communities reshaped by their absence — deserves a place where healing is met with welcome rather than skepticism.
For too long, the work of becoming whole has been left to chance, squeezed into borrowed hours and unfamiliar rooms. We’ve learned that real transformation needs more than a moment. It needs a place that holds it.
This September, the Healing Home becomes that place — a space designed for the hard, hopeful work our community has been doing for nearly thirty years, now given roots, walls, and a permanent welcome.
“Healing isn’t a moment. It’s a practice that needs roots, walls, and people who stay. The Healing Home gives our community all three.“
SEPTEMBER 2026
Let’s build a future where
transformation and healing has a home.
To learn more or start a conversation, we invite you to connect with us.
Contact: Eldra Jackson III, Executive Director