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Humanity Impact Projects

What's Your Anchor Initiative

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What's Your Anchor Initiative

Beyond Punishment, to Purpose

An initiative to equip current and formerly incarcerated people with the practical skills to lead efforts to transform their own lives and communities by employing our wellness-centered personal and professional capacity building framework "What's Your Anchor", aligning ability, passion, and purpose.

CORE PILLARS

Advocacy

Workforce
Development

Wellness 

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Photo graphy by Troy C Johnson

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The Workforce Playbook 101

Originally developed in 2021 while instructing for the Craven Community College Job Readiness Bootcamp, a course targeting the unemployed and underemployed, operated in collaboration with the Craven-Pamlico Reentry Council, Religious Community Services, and other community-based partners.

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BECOME A SHIPMATE

& BECOME PART OF OUR JOURNEY

Our vision is to fully implement programming with our 1st correctional facility & serve currently incarcerated people

Supports our Local Jail Partnership!

Become Shipmate, Access Multimedia Series!

How can you be a Shipmate if you don't know the journey? For as little as $1 (name your price), we are offering Shipmates exclusive access to unreleased interviews, music, and more from our award-winning multimedia project "Letters from America's 3rd World", highlighting the incarceration and healing journey that led to the development of The Ship & What's Your Anchor Initiative. The offer includes:
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- 9-week docu-series featuring unreleased interview content from the award-winning documentary short film
- 9-song "soundtrack" of original music from creator of the series & the Ship's initiatives
- Access to in-person live performances & live-podcasts (in DC), featuring leaders transforming the system

Thank you, and we look forward to reaching our destination together. Welcome aboard, Shipmate!

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The Reimagining Initiative

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Reimagining America's 3rd World

Initiative

Healing, Dealing & Reeling

The Reimagining is an initiative centering perspectives from current and formerly incarcerated people that share their novel insights into the criminal legal system.

 

Aimed at shifting the common framing from the existing punitive "public safety" narrative to a more restorative "public health" centered narrative, the initiative utilizes media and entertainment to explore viable health-centered approaches to transform the criminal legal system and the lives of those directly impacted by it.

Approaches that Heal

People

The
System

Community

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DOCUMENTARY
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Podcast

Launched to share perspectives from America's 3rd world, formerly incarcerated people offer their novel insights on topics regarding the criminal legal system with community & practitioners. Season's theme: Healing, Dealing, & Reeling

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Documentary

Part traditional documentary & part music video, it recounts the creator's incarceration, subsequent healing journeys, & the inspiration for The Ship Humanity Impact Projects - What's Your Anchor & The Reimagining initiatives.

Soundtrack

A casual, entertaining, and subtle exposé of the healing journey of the Letters protagonist. It sheds light on life in America's 3rd world & its impacts on the individual, while faithfully pontificating about glorious triumph over adversity.

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Book

It expounds on the concept of "America's 3rd world" through the creator's journey, & assesses the role of the "What's Your Anchor" framework in restoring individuals & communities impacted by incarceration, and the system itself. (Still in progress)

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BECOME A SHIPMATE

& BECOME PART OF OUR JOURNEY

Our vision is to convene formerly incarcerated people, academia, practitioners, and community at tour of 5 colleges in:

Washington, DC | The Triangle | Eastern NC

Supports our Hyper-Local College Tour!

Become Shipmate, Access Multimedia Series!

How can you be a Shipmate if you don't know the journey? For as little as $1 (name your price), we are offering Shipmates exclusive access to unreleased interviews, music, and more from on our award-winning multimedia project "Letters from America's 3rd World", highlighting the incarceration and healing journey that led to the development of The Ship & The Reimagining Initiative. The offer includes:
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- 9-week docu-series featuring unreleased interview content from the award-winning documentary short film
- 9-song "soundtrack" of original music from creator of the series & the Ship's initiatives
- Access to in-person live performances & live-podcasts (in DC), featuring leaders transforming the system

Thank you, and we look forward to reaching our destination together. Welcome aboard, Shipmate!

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