Our Services

Our Services

RARE Academy provides a comprehensive suite of services that strengthen reentry ecosystems, expand community capacity, and empower system-impacted individuals to thrive. Every service we offer is peer-informed, trauma-responsive, and rooted in equity—ensuring real solutions that honor lived experience and create lasting change.

Program Design & Development

We work alongside nonprofits, government agencies, and community partners to co-design reentry, diversion, and workforce programs that meet the real-world needs of system-impacted individuals.
Our designs integrate essentials such as:

• Workforce development

• Digital literacy

• Peer support integration

• Trauma-informed care

• Housing and resource navigation

• Mental health awareness

• Leadership development
  
  

These programs are practical, innovative, and intentionally built to restore excellence and promote long-term stability.

Training & Capacity Building

RARE delivers dynamic trainings that strengthen organizations’ ability to serve diverse, system-impacted populations with compassion, skill, and cultural humility.
Topics include:

• Trauma-informed and healing-centered practices

• Workforce development strategies

• Peer support and lived-experience leadership

• Mental health and recovery-oriented approaches

• Digital literacy instruction

• Leadership development and facilitation skills

We help teams build confidence, competence, and readiness to support participants effectively.

Systems Simulation Experiences

The RARE Experience: Systems Simulation immerses participants in the realities faced by people navigating reentry and interconnected systems such as housing, transportation, employment, probation/parole, and mental health access.

This powerful training engages:

• Employers

• Nonprofits and community partners

• Government agencies

• Funders

• Educators and community leaders

Participants walk away with deeper empathy, stronger problem-solving skills, and new perspectives that inform more effective, equitable policies and practices.

Advocacy & Awareness Building

We elevate the voices and leadership of people with lived experience through community forums, storytelling, policy conversations, outreach campaigns, and public education.
Our advocacy work:

• Challenges harmful narratives

• Reduces stigma

• Promotes restorative and healing-centered approaches

• Helps communities understand system-impacted individuals as leaders, not liabilities

We shift culture through empathy, truth, and lived experience.

Partnership Development & Community Engagement

RARE strengthens cross-sector collaboration by bringing together nonprofits, government agencies, businesses, employers, community partners, and impacted individuals to co-create solutions.
We support partners with:

• Strategic planning

• Peer-led program integration

• Community engagement strategy

• Inclusive hiring and trauma-informed workplace practices

• Leadership pathways for system-impacted community members

Together, we build networks of shared responsibility and collective impact.

Through these services, RARE Academy empowers organizations, leaders, and communities to build stronger systems, expand opportunities, and support system-impacted individuals and families in achieving long-term success, stability, and leadership.