Our Training & Development Work
To request a speaker or workshop facilitator for those you serve, please email office@nlscoinc.org
Job, Life Skills, Digital Skills, Entrepreneurship & Leadership Development
Digital Literacy & Technology Training
Clients are provided easy paced training on how to be successfully engaged and skilled in how to navigate a virtual world as well as access critical technology needed for job searching: use computers, video conferencing services, creating email accounts, using Google calendars, creating social media and LinkedIn accounts. Learn more about our digital literacy program and requirements by visiting our Digital Literacy page.
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is a viable and attainable pathway to financial wellness and success after incarceration.
Therefore, In collaboration with Redemption & Advancement, the R.O.C.C., in the Fall of 2025, we will resume the R.O.C.C. training, a virtual development, entrepreneurship & coaching program for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated. Learn more about ROCC and our upcoming entrepreneurship trainings here.
Job & Career Readiness Training
Clients receive job & career readiness training in their job search journey: job search techniques, applications, resumes, cover letters, emails, social media, Zoom, interviewing, Google calendar, and dressing for success.
Financial Literacy, Money & Credit Management
We regularly offer financial literacy, money management and credit wellness workshops and partner with local financial wellness organizations and banks to empower our clients having a basic grasp of money matters and its four fundamental pillars (debt, budgeting, saving, and investing) and by offering support to them with their financial goals on their path to self sufficiency and financial health and wellness. Get started today by taking free courses and get your certificate of completion by visiting our Financial Wellness page.
Personal Development, Life & Social Skills
Our personal development workshops are designed to foster self-growth and improve interpersonal skills. Topics include goal setting, effective communication, and leadership skills, all aimed at helping individuals unlock their full potential.
We facilitate workshops and trainings that equip our clients with the skills needed to effectively communicate and be socially engaged in appropriate and professional ways such as the following:
- conflict resolution
- confidence building
- team building
- interpersonal communication
- leadership development & self-determination advocacy
- social etiquette
- vision boarding & goal setting
Leadership & Development
Our leadership trainings equip participants with the tools needed to strategically and effectively transform and abolish oppressive carceral systems that focus on profit instead of people. These trainings equip attendees with the tools needed to develop and sharpen their leadership and community organizing skills, and equip them with the capacity to respond with agency to rise up and challenge the criminal justice system. Trainings are limited to individuals impacted by an arrest, conviction and/or incarceration because in order to get the change we seek, we need leaders who know first hand the systems and conditions in which we are working to transform or abolish.
Sister Rise Leadership Academy is an intensive 2 phased virtual 10 week paid online leadership training program for justice involved and formerly incarcerated women and girls (including trans women and girls). Applications will open in Spring 2027.
Advocacy
Although we do not participate in any lobbying activities or endorse candidates for public office, we do conduct grassroots organizing, advocacy (ending mass incarceration, abolishing oppressive carceral systems and procedures, jail/prison conditions and communications, family reunification, restoration of rights, economic justice and decriminalization) and civic engagement activities to educate and ignite our clients and the community on issues of public concern, particularly those that impact justice involved individuals and our families.
Issues we advocate and speak on:
- the challenges to reentry, especially for special populations (elders, trans and people living in recovery, with mental illness or on the sex registry),
- abolishing oppressive carceral systems and procedures (mass incarceration, probation, electronic monitoring, fines & fees, etc.)
- voter disenfranchisement & education (particularly for those who are justice involved). Learn more about our work as a part of the HOAPE Coalition by connecting with HOAPE on Facebook, Twitter & IG (@HOAPE4GA)
- jail/prison conditions and communications
- family reunification
- fair chance hiring and housing
- employment, housing and educational discrimination
- economic justice and decriminalization of poverty
- restoration of rights, probation and parole reform
- Self advocating for an incarcerated loved one
See our advocacy guides for families and those seeking to clear their record on our Advocacy Page.
Voter Education, Civic Engagement & Capacity Building
We conduct non-partisan activities that include, but are not limited to, the IRS approved activities for 501c3 charities such as hosting public education and training sessions about voter rights (particularly regarding voting with a felony), ID requirements, participation in the political process, hosting candidate forums/debates where ALL viable candidates are invited and given equal opportunity to speak on a broad range of issues, including those that relate to our mission, distributing voter guides to the public that give candidates’ views on a broad range of issues, educating ALL candidates on issues that impact those served by the mission of the organization and conducting nonpartisan get-out- the-vote and voter protection activities and education drives.
We also support and partner with local, state and national voter education organizations and #GOTV efforts, especially those focused on getting out the vote to marginalized communities, including citizens who are justice-impacted and those in rural and underserved communities.
We are NOT a 501c4, and therefore DO NOT directly or indirectly contribute to, participate in, intervene in, endorse or publicly support (written or verbal) any political campaign activities or candidates locally, statewide or federally nor do we distribute materials prepared by others that support or oppose any candidate for public office as prohibited under the Internal Revenue Code for 501(c)(3) charitable organizations.
Activities, we do and do NOT participate in can be found here. Learn more about your voting rights, including voting with a felony, and our voter education work on our Voting Page.