"HOPE Letters is a pathway to safely developing healthy mentoring relationships through correspondence with individuals who are experiencing some type of incarceration or temporary removal from the greater community. HOPE Letters was initiated by Grace UMC in Dayton, Ohio, as a reentry pilot program to provide hope and guidance through regular correspondence to men and women who are incarcerated in Ohio’s State Prisons. Today, HOPE Letters builds faith-based relationships that ease the transition from prison to community and provides a supportive HOPE Letters reentry community for returning neighbors. HOPE Letters provides a restorative pathway for addressing mass incarceration at the grass roots level. The goal is to increase the likelihood that “inside” HOPE Letter recipients find wholeness and meaning while incarcerated, and when released, they will permanently reintegrate into the community as supported, restored, productive citizens." - By Rev. Dr. Amelia Boomershine, Mr. James Clay and edited by Reba Collins.

If you are interested in writing HOPE letters to incarcerated individuals, please fill out the form below and we will contact you as soon as possible. Thank you!