Partakers doesn't just change your life…it gives you one!
~Partakers Graduate
What We Do
Partakers works every day to reduce prison recidivism through essential educational opportunities and empowering mentorship relationships.
Unencumbered by what has been and unafraid of new frontiers, you remind us that what defines us above all, has always been our unwavering belief in the possibilities of the future.
~President Barack Obama to a Partakers Graduate
The Voices of Partakers
Our Programs
College Behind Bars Mentoring Program
Re-Entry: The Partakers Empowerment Program
Partakers Mentors are at the Heart of Our Work.
Partakers is supported by an extraordinary and growing group of over 400 volunteer mentors. Our mentors dedicate their time and hearts to their students, often over a period of years. Volunteers come to us from diverse faiths, occupations, and socio-economic backgrounds. They are the bridge to our students’ achievement and the core of Partakers’ success.
The Impact We Make
Students who have graduated from the Partakers College Behind Bars Program show a 2% recidivism rate. Past studies show a 6 year national average of 79%*
*Bureau of Justice Statistics
Partakers has transformed my life in so many different ways primarily it has helped me dig my way out of a life that was just a dead end.
I have real hope… real potential to have a productive healthy life -
in other words it saved my life.~ Partakers Graduate
