The group meets monthly inside WCCW and reaches out to women who have served in the Armed Forces, and now find themselves incarcerated. Women are introduced to resources that are veteran based, such as benefits for injuries occurring while in service, mental and physical health resources, employment and training, education, housing, and service organization membership. This group is sponsored jointly by Washington Department of Veterans Affairs, American Legion Post 204, and Department of Corrections.

In 1999, the Washington Corrections Center for Women created a unique prison nursery program combining a residential parenting program with Early Head Start. This program, known as the Residential Parenting Program, allows pregnant, minimum security inmates with sentences of less than 30 months the opportunity to keep their babies with them after giving birth. The inmate mothers and babies/toddlers live together in a designated unit and receive support and education in alliance with skilled early childhood educators.

Schirmer House is home to 32 women and transgender individuals with justice involvement (on supervision, in a diversion program, or with pending criminal charges). Keyway provides wraparound services to Schirmer participants on their paths toward housing stability, financial security, emotional wellness, and community engagement. Services include basic needs, housing, behavioral health services, life skills and vocational support, and case management. Participants must be able to independently manage personal hygiene, mobility, and eating.

The Center for Women in Transition assists women in the criminal justice system make a successful transition to their families and communities through practicing and promoting restorative justice.

The Center for Women in Transition facilitates one-on-one mentoring partnerships between females who were incarcerated for non-violent offenses and volunteer mentors for a period of one year. The organization also advocates for women who have committed non-violent crimes, and meet other criteria, to be sentenced to our mentoring program and in supervised transitional housing rather than prison.

Hartford House is a re-entry program for female state and federal work release clients who live in a congregate setting and are supported as they obtain full-time employment and meet financial, self-sufficiency, and family reunification goals. The program's emphasis is on gender responsive programming aimed at helping women address substance abuse and mental health issues. The program includes a Mothers and Infants Nurtured Together (MINT) program. This is a confinement placement for pregnant federal offenders who have been approved for community placement.

Sarah Powell Huntington House (SPHH) is a residence where homeless women who have criminal justice involvement can reunify with their children. SPHH is home to 37 mothers, 18 who live in single units and are awaiting the return of their children and 19 whose children are in their care. WPA offers on-site case management, day care, recreational activities for children, counseling (for both mothers and their children), and intensive assistance with finding permanent housing. Huntington House is a safe, drug-free environment with 24-hour supervision.

Craine House is a family residential facility serving women under community corrections custody. Women are sentenced by a judge to live with their children at Craine House for 12 to 18 months, where they are matched with professional services that meet their individual needs.

The Coalition for Women Prisoners is a statewide alliance of more than 1,000 individuals from over 100 organizations dedicated to making the criminal justice system more responsive to the needs and rights of women and their families. The Coalition is coordinated by the Women in Prison Project of the Correctional Association of New York and carries out legislative and policy advocacy, public education, and community organizing work.

Let’s Start, a branch of Criminal Justice Ministry, is a program dedicated to assisting women in transition from prison life to society. It is unique in that it is coordinated by women who themselves have been through the criminal justice system. 

Let’s Start offers the following: