Our News

Our Place, DC wants to thank you for attending our performance of “Any One of Us” and for your continued support of our mission to serve women who are coming home from jail or prison. This was Our Place’s first fundraising event and thanks to your support it was more successful than we had ever dreamed. We raised over $7,000, performed to an audience of over 250 people, increased visibility of Our Place, strengthened and created relationships with community partners, and most importantly gave voice to the silenced stories of incarcerated women. Our Place believes these stories demonstrate the resilience of women who are coming home. We encourage you to join us in helping them with their journey. Check out our volunteer and donation pages for ways to stay involved.

After conducting an extensive six-month search, we are excited to announce the appointment of Ashley McSwain, MSW, MSOD as the new Executive Director of Our Place. Ms. McSwain brings years of experience working with people who are formerly and currently incarcerated. She is already hard at work and we look forward to benefiting from her leadership as Our Place continues to move forward.

We have just added three new services to help women who have been incarcerated find employment and address legal issues! Check out the flyers below for more information. Just click the images to enlarge them.

Connections to Careers	Employment Clinic	Legal Clinic

For the second time, Our Place, DC has been recognized as one of the best small charities in the Greater Washington region the Catalogue for Philanthropy. Click the logo to view our catalogue page.

Our Place, DC’s Founder and Director, Susan Galbraith, moved the organization’s advocacy campaign to implement more thoughtful and effective release planning for people leaving the DC Jail one step further by bringing the issue to the public’s attention in the July 14, 2006 edition of the Washington City Paper. Read the article here.

In February 2005, we began surveying women who have been released from the DC Jail to learn more about the resources that were available to them upon their release. See the preliminary results of our survey of recently released women and learn more about our campaign for Justice NOT Jumpsuits.