Welcome to Alexander Reentry Navigation

Alexander Reentry Navigation is a Peer-led organization in Taylorsville, North Carolina. We provide Christ-based peer support wraparound services to  individuals starting a new chapter. We respond within 48-72 hours.

Rebuilding life after incarceration isn’t easy — but you don’t have to do it alone. We provide peer-led guidance, vital record assistance, and court compliance support to help you take confident steps toward a fresh start.

Because no one should walk alone.

 

Services

Peer Support Groups

Empowerment through connection and support. Join our Peer Support Groups today!

Life Skills Workshops

Equip yourself with essential skills for success. Explore our Life Skills Workshops!

Workforce Stabilization & Retention 

Find your path to meaningful employment. Let us guide you with Job Placement Assistance!

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I join a Peer Support Group?

Recovery, Reentry & Workforce Navigation

Alexander Reentry Navigation helps individuals and families facing recovery, reentry, housing, transportation, and workforce barriers connect to supportive community resources and opportunities.

Every referral begins with a navigation and stabilization review through our team to help identify:

  • Immediate needs
  • Recovery goals
  • Housing barriers
  • Employment readiness
  • Transportation concerns
  • Long-term support opportunities

Based on individual needs and goals, participants may be connected through We Rise Up and other community partnerships to programs and supportive services including:

  • Peer recovery support
  • Workforce readiness services
  • Recovery and reentry programming
  • The P.A.T.H. Program
  • Hope Through Horticulture therapeutic and workforce development opportunities

Hope Through Horticulture provides opportunities for healing, skill-building, personal growth, and community connection through gardening, agriculture, and hands-on workforce development experiences.

Our mission is to help individuals build stability, restore dignity, and move forward with purpose.

Bridges Over Barriers.

What topics are covered in the Life Skills Workshops?

Our Life & Social Skills Workshops cover a range of topics including communication skills, financial literacy, and goal setting.

Life & Social Skills Workshops

Participants may have access to workshops focused on:

  • Communication and conflict resolution
  • Time management and daily stability
  • Healthy relationships and community connection
  • Stress management, wellness, and personal growth

These workshops are designed to strengthen recovery, reduce workforce destabilization, support healthy decision-making, and promote long-term stability.

How can I access Job Placement Assistance?

You can access Job Placement Assistance by contacting our team and scheduling a consultation to discuss your career goals and needs. 

📞828.502.2670

📧alexanderreentrynavigation@gmail.com

We Build Bridges Not Barriers

Contact us

For more information or to get in touch with us, please fill out the contact form below.


URBN MANSION (501c3) 
Governing • Fiscal Sponsor 
Grant oversight 
 
Hope Beyond Overdose, LLC (Service Arm) 

Direct services 

Alexander Reentry Navigation

What We Do

  • Peer Navigation: One-on-one and group-based peer support to help individuals overcome barriers to employment, housing, education, and wellness.

  • Workforce Stability and Retention:A support-focused approach that helps individuals address barriers that may interfere with maintaining employment, improving consistency, accountability, and long-term workplace success through guidance and community connection.


  • Community Engagement: Hosting events, workshops, and awareness campaigns to build bridges between reentry participants, employers, and the community.

  • Agriculture Workforce Development: Initiatives like Hope Through Horticulture that use hands-on learning and life skills training as pathways to healing and purpose.

The First 72 Initiative stabilizes returning citizens in the most dangerous hours after release by providing immediate peer support, essential resources, and warm hand-offs to the services that keep them alive, compliant, and moving forward.

  • Why This Matters for Alexander County

🚓 Roughly,185 people are admitted to NCDAC ANNUALLY

🚐 65-80 return back to Alexander 

🪃 95% of incarcerated people will return back to respective communities. NC, this year 18,000-projected release

  •  Overdose deaths occurring during post-release
  • Missed appointments due to confusion or lack of transportation
  • High caseloads and limited system navigation capacity
  • Families unable to support stabilization alone
  • Return to jail from simple preventable barriers
  •  ARN provides the bridge—not duplicating existing services, but making it possible for individuals to successfully access them.

View our latest work

Alexander Reentry Navigation (ARN)is a Christ-centered, peer-led organization in Taylorsville, North Carolina, committed to walking alongside people as they return to the community after incarceration. You do not have to ascribe to Christian faith. Drawing from lived experience, the team helps individuals navigate the complex realities of reentry with dignity, emotional intelligence, and hope.

ARN focuses on filling critical gaps in support without duplicating existing local services. By practicing trauma-informed care, emotional regulation skills, and healthy communication, the team equips participants to rebuild relationships, manage stress, and make grounded decisions while connecting them to community partners for housing, employment, transportation, and clinical care.

Guided by faith and a belief that no one should walk this journey alone, ARN centers the voices of people with justice involvement and honors their God-given worth. Through strategic partnerships with local agencies and religious institutions,, and employers, ARN works to create a coordinated, emotionally safe ecosystem where second chances become lasting change.