Our programs impact lives and communities.

Our Programs & Services

Together, in partnership with community, we create conditions and offer opportunities to co-create and explore transformative solutions to the most pressing and urgent needs of our time.

🌀We move compassion forward.

🌀We offer opportunities to co-create and explore what is possible.

🌀We support people in embodying new life skills and accessing essential resources.

🌀We meet people right where they are and create a safe space that honors each person.

🌀We invite people to learn new tools through choice and how to develop a deeper sense of self-awareness and life purpose.

🌀We cultivate lasting changes through ongoing restorative practices and community relationship building that supports and nurtures positive growth and new ways of being.

🌀Our approach is open to everyone regardless of the stage of life, place, time, or circumstance.

  • Core and central focus of CTV. Our work (internally/externally) is to practice increasing our own self-awareness, self-discipline, and self-motivation. Through this, we are able to make life choices directed from an internal place of knowing, preparing us to live a more purposeful and intentional life that enhances our whole life. To learn more, contact Ann Fisher, Director of Programs and Training at afisher@carrythevison.org.

  • The program goals aim to teach life skill practices for stress reduction, self-awareness, healing and transformation, emotional intelligence development, anger and emotion management, interpersonal communications, healthy relationships, leadership capacity building, and purposeful living as well as specific tools to facilitate the application of positive living skills for incarcerated and/or alternatively sentenced individuals in Santa Clara County. Coursework prepares adults to integrate back into the community. To learn more, contact Ann Fisher, Director of Programs and Training at afisher@carrythevison.org.

  • A South Santa Clara County based program that supports formerly incarcerated adults and/ or families and caregivers impacted by the criminal justice system receive navigation support with overcoming barriers and access to essential community resources. This program is guided by those with lived experience and provides 1:1 coaching and mentoring, recovery healing circles, transformational classes, and gatherings and workshops for connection and belonging. To learn more or to make an appointment, contact Vanessa Ashford, Program Manager at vanessa@carrythevison.org or 408-840-3305. Walk-ins are not available at this time.

  • CTV serves as a fiscal partner for San Ysidro Nueva Vida, a Promotor community organization that provides local outreach, essential resources and classes for adults and children, and direct healing support to Gilroy’s most vulnerable community members. Services include critical relief to residents disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 pandemic. These initiatives focus on resilience, prevention, and compassionate care for those suffering from life’s challenges. To learn more, please contact Jorge Mendoza, Nueva Vida President, at jorge@nuevavidacommunity.org.

    CTV facilitates and teaches Community Dialogue Circles and Mindfulness Practices to engage individuals and communities in the practice of intentional listening and stress reduction practices. To learn more, contact Shelley Swan, Executive Director at swan@carrythevision.org.

  • The CTV team and partners work with expert consultants to develop and implement innovative nonprofit financial models and structures, including fiscal sponsorship, that provide backbone support to budding resident coalitions and/or organized groups committed to advancing social justice and race and gender equity. CTV understands that without such structures, solutions that are most deeply rooted in lived experience, community wisdom and power, and ones that will most likely lead to local capacity-building, healing and recovery, and equitable community investments, will likely never get off the ground. To learn more, contact Renee Ridgway, Program Administrator at info@carrythevision.org

  • California Reinvestment Grant (CalCRG)

    City of Gilroy

    Destination: Home Andre Ellison Equity Fund

    Destination: Home Emergency Hotel Program

    Emergency Food and Shelter Program (United Way)

    Futures Without Violence (All in For Kids)

    Gilroy Foundation

    Recovery Café Network

    Santa Clara County District Attorney

    Santa Clara County Office of Diversion and Reentry

    Santa Clara County Public Health

    Silicon Valley Community Foundation

    For more information , please contact Allyson Dubenko, Finance and Operations Director at allyson@carrythevision.org

  • Coming soon.

    For more information, please contact Allyson Dubenko, Finance and Operations Director at allyson@carrythevision.org

Program Videos

Reentry, Schools, and Parent Groups.

“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”

-Don Miguel Ruiz

Want to learn more about our transformational programs? Please contact Ann Fisher at afisher@carrythevision.org.