Re-entry Housing & Support Through Faith, Hope, and Community.
Vital Signs Re-entry Ministry provides stable transitional housing, one-on-one life coaching, career placement, and brotherhood for returning citizens taking their first steps back into society.
Peaceful Living. Genuine Brotherhood.
Supportive recovery & structured community in Metro Atlanta.
"First Week Out" — The Untold Journey Beyond the Gates
What does it truly take to walk out of prison gates after 5, 10, or 20 years with only $25 in your pocket and a bus ticket? Our documentary follows four Vital Signs residents during their critical first seven days rebuilding their dignity, reconnecting with estranged families, and battling systemic roadblocks.
How Vital Signs Rebuilds Lives from Day One
We don't merely provide a bed. We offer an integrated, dignity-first blueprint designed to break the cycles of re-arrest.
Clean, Stable Housing
Furnished residences in safe Georgia neighborhoods with utilities, nutritious food staples, and 24/7 on-site house life coaches.
Job Readiness & Placement
Direct partnerships with second-chance Georgia employers in logistics, construction, culinary arts, and tech apprenticeships.
Life Coaching & Guidance
Trauma-informed mental wellness, anger management, fatherhood reunification classes, and personal financial budgeting.
Spiritual & Peer Fellowship
Optional Sunday ministry circles, 12-step recovery support, community service, and lifelong brotherly accountability.
Are You or a Loved One Preparing for Release?
Our Georgia bed coordinator works with pre-release chaplains, parole officers, and family advocates to secure housing approvals before release dates.
Voices of Restoration
"When I stepped out after 14 years, Atlanta looked completely foreign. Vital Signs gave me a clean bed, a life coach who showed up for me, and helped me get my Commercial Driver’s License within 5 months."
Terrence R.
Class of 2024 • Logistics Lead
"Other programs treated me like a parole number. At Vital Signs, the founder looked me in the eye and said ‘Your past does not own your tomorrow.’ Today I am home with my daughter and debt-free."
Derrick L.
Class of 2023 • Electrician Apprentice
"The coaching sessions gave me emotional control I never learned growing up. Now I give back as an assistant house manager helping newly released brothers."
Anthony W.
Resident Leader & Peer Life Coach
Interactive Resident Portal
Track your weekly milestone goals, access curfew & house rules, check job applications, and schedule one-on-one sessions with your assigned life coach.
Partner, Volunteer or Donate
Whether offering fair-chance employment, life coaching residents, or contributing furniture, hygiene supplies, or financial gifts — you accelerate a brother or sister’s return home.
Our Wrap Around Services
one stop shop for reentry and reintergration empowering returning citizens through community and resource.
Life Empowerment
Coaching Firm
Vital Signs
Reentry Housing Ministry
Uplift Transportation
Mobility Services
Safe Staffing Connections
Employment Agency
The Source Church
Spiritual Community
Tackle the Shackles
Advocacy Group
Tackle the Shackles
TACKLE THE SHACKLES (TTS) is a National Coalition to bring about Better Second Chances and Reduce Prison Recidivism. The coalition also Promotes Criminal Justice and Prison Reform to ensure fairness in courtrooms, reasonable sentences, and that prison time is rehabilitative instead of punitive.
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