Restore & RiseSupport Network
Virtual Peer Support for Individuals and Families Impacted by Incarceration, Reentry, Recovery, and Family Reconnection
Restore & Rise Support Network is preparing to launch compassionate, lived-experience-informed virtual support for people rebuilding after incarceration and for the families and loved ones carrying the journey alongside them.
Through one-on-one virtual peer support, group-based connection, resource navigation, and family-centered encouragement, Restore & Rise will create a place where people can feel understood, supported, and empowered to move forward.
Services are currently in development. Pre-registration allows you to express interest and be contacted as launch information becomes available; it does not enroll you in services or guarantee a scheduled appointment.
Virtual Peer Support Services
Virtual Support Designed to Meet You Where You Are
Restore & Rise Support Network will be a fully virtual support program. Services are being designed for individuals and families who may need encouragement, connection, and guidance without the barriers of travel, transportation, or in-person scheduling.
Planned virtual support will allow participants to connect from a private location using phone or video-based sessions, depending on service availability and program requirements at launch.
One-on-One Virtual Peer Support
Individual support sessions focused on encouragement, goal setting, emotional support, accountability, family reconnection, recovery stability, and navigating life after incarceration.
Virtual Support Groups
Online groups designed to reduce isolation and connect people with others who understand the impact of incarceration, reentry, recovery, and family transition.
Family and Loved One Support
Peer-led support for caregivers, partners, parents, siblings, and loved ones navigating separation, changing family roles, reconnection, and the emotional impact of incarceration.
Resource Navigation and Next Steps
Support in identifying community resources, preparing questions, setting goals, and connecting with appropriate programs or services when additional help is needed.
You do not have to navigate this alone.
Who Restore & Rise Is For
Restore & Rise is being built for people directly impacted by incarceration and for the loved ones who experience its effects from the outside.
- Adults returning home after incarceration
- Individuals preparing for reentry
- People in recovery navigating justice-system involvement
- Parents supporting children during a loved one's incarceration
- Adult children of an incarcerated parent
- Partners or spouses of incarcerated individuals
- Siblings and close family members
- Friends or loved ones seeking guidance
- Organizations seeking partnership opportunities
Direct virtual services for minors are not currently open for enrollment. Parents and caregivers may pre-register for family-centered support and updates about resources for children impacted by incarceration.
Our Approach
Support grounded in connection, dignity, and forward movement.
Restore & Rise Support Network is being developed around a simple belief: people impacted by incarceration, reentry, recovery, and family separation need more than information alone. They need to feel heard, understood, encouraged, and supported as they identify their next steps.
Our virtual peer-support services will be guided by the C.A.R.E.S. Model — a compassionate, lived-experience-informed approach designed to help individuals and families move from isolation and uncertainty toward connection, stability, and hope.
C — Connection
Support begins with being heard.
Incarceration, reentry, recovery, and family separation can leave people feeling judged, isolated, or unsure who truly understands. Restore & Rise begins by creating a welcoming virtual space where individuals and loved ones can speak honestly about what they are carrying and feel met with empathy, dignity, and respect.
A — Action Planning
Difficult seasons can feel more manageable when there is a next step.
Virtual peer support will help participants identify their immediate concerns, clarify their goals, and begin thinking through practical next steps. Whether someone is returning home, supporting a loved one, rebuilding routines, navigating recovery, or preparing for family reconnection, support is centered on helping them move forward one step at a time.
R — Resource Navigation
People deserve help finding the support that may already exist around them.
Restore & Rise will help participants identify relevant community resources, support programs, family-focused services, recovery connections, reentry resources, and additional referrals when appropriate. Resource navigation is intended to reduce confusion and help individuals and families feel more informed about their options.
E — Emotional Support
No one should have to carry the emotional weight alone.
Through peer-led virtual connection, Restore & Rise will provide encouragement grounded in lived experience, compassion, and nonjudgmental support. Participants may be navigating sadness, fear, anger, loneliness, shame, uncertainty, grief, or the pressure of trying to hold a family together. Emotional support creates room for those feelings while reminding each person that they matter and that healing is possible.
S — Stability & Self-Determination
The goal is not only to get through the moment, but to build toward what comes next.
Restore & Rise is being created to support participants as they strengthen routines, rebuild confidence, improve family connection, remain engaged with recovery or reentry goals, and make choices that reflect the life they want to create. Our role is not to take over a person's journey. It is to walk alongside them with encouragement, accountability, resources, and hope as they rise into their next chapter.
Why this approach matters
Incarceration can create disruption long before release and continue affecting families long after someone comes home. A returning citizen may be trying to rebuild stability, identity, relationships, and trust. A partner or parent may be trying to support someone while carrying their own emotional burden. A caregiver may be trying to comfort a child through absence, confusion, and reconnection.
The C.A.R.E.S. Model brings these experiences together through support that is:
Restore & Rise is being built so that individuals and families do not have to navigate incarceration, reentry, recovery, or family reconnection feeling unseen or unsupported.
Connection to Always Loved Press
Restore & Rise Support Network and Always Loved Press share the same purpose: helping individuals and families affected by incarceration feel supported, connected, and reminded that they matter.
Through Always Loved Press, children and caregivers can access gentle stories and supportive resources, beginning with No Matter What, You Are Always Loved!, a children’s book created for children when someone they love is away due to incarceration.
Through Restore & Rise Support Network, adults, caregivers, loved ones, and returning citizens will be able to access planned virtual peer-support services focused on reentry, recovery, family connection, resource navigation, and emotional encouragement.
Together, these initiatives are being developed to support the family journey from separation to reconnection, healing, and hope.
Explore Always Loved PressHow It Works
A simple path toward support.
Pre-Register
Share your basic information and the type of support you may be interested in receiving when services launch.
Receive Launch Updates
As virtual support services become available, pre-registrants will receive information about eligibility, scheduling, available support options, and next steps.
Identify the Right Support Path
Participants may be connected to one-on-one virtual peer support, groups, family-centered support, recovery-focused encouragement, or resource navigation based on available programming and individual needs.
Build Connection & Forward Movement
Restore & Rise will provide peer-led support grounded in compassion, lived experience, dignity, encouragement, and the belief that rebuilding does not have to happen alone.
Support begins with connection.
Whether you are preparing to come home, rebuilding after incarceration, supporting a loved one, navigating recovery, or caring for a family affected by separation, Restore & Rise is being created to remind you:
You do not have to figure out the next chapter alone.
Pre-Register for Virtual Support
For Families & Caregivers
For families carrying the impact of incarceration.
When someone is incarcerated or returning home, the emotional impact is rarely limited to one person. Partners, parents, siblings, caregivers, and children may all be navigating change, worry, missed milestones, shifting responsibilities, and difficult questions.
Restore & Rise will provide virtual, peer-led support intended to help families feel heard, encouraged, and connected while navigating:
- Separation during incarceration
- Family communication and reconnection
- Preparing for a loved one's return home
- Supporting children through changes and absence
- Emotional adjustment during reentry
- Identifying helpful community resources
- Rebuilding hope and connection as a family
For Partner Organizations
Future virtual support partnerships.
Restore & Rise Support Network is being developed with partnership opportunities in mind for organizations supporting justice-impacted adults, returning citizens, caregivers, and families affected by incarceration.
Potential partnership opportunities may include virtual peer-support referrals, family-support collaboration, reentry support programming, recovery-focused peer engagement, resource sharing, and child/family support connections through Always Loved Press.
Partnership inquiries are welcome during the development phase. Services, referral pathways, documentation standards, and organizational agreements will be confirmed before any formal service delivery begins.
Pre-Register
Pre-Register for Virtual Support
Be among the first to hear when support opens.
We're preparing to launch virtual peer support services. By pre-registering, you'll be the first to know when services open — and your responses help us build the support that's most needed in our community.
About the Founder
Founded through lived experience and purpose.
Restore & Rise Support Network was founded by Sherry Joseph, whose lived experience of incarceration shaped her understanding of the emotional and practical challenges faced by individuals returning home and by the families who remain connected to them through separation and transition.
Sherry is committed to transforming lived experience into meaningful support. Her work centers on restoring dignity, strengthening family connection, encouraging recovery and reentry progress, and helping people move forward with hope and purpose.
Sherry is a Certified Addiction Recovery Coach (CARC) and a Certified Recovery Peer Advocate (CRPA). She is also the author of No Matter What, You Are Always Loved!, published through Always Loved Press.
Founder credential wording should be updated if additional certifications or service authorizations are completed before launch.
“My mission is to help people discover options they didn't know they had, so they can build futures they never thought were possible.”
— Sherry Joseph, Founder
Frequently Asked Questions
You may be wondering.
Important Service Notice
Restore & Rise Support Network is currently in development. The services described on this page are planned virtual peer-support offerings and are not yet available for active enrollment, appointment scheduling, or referral.
Restore & Rise is being developed as a peer-led, non-clinical support initiative. It does not currently provide therapy, medical or mental health treatment, diagnosis, medication management, legal advice, emergency response, or crisis intervention.
If you or someone you know is experiencing an emergency or immediate safety concern, call 911 or contact an appropriate crisis service in your area. In the United States, individuals experiencing a mental health or substance-use crisis may call or text 988 for immediate crisis support.