About
Founder & Executive Director
Denise Williams
Denise Williams experienced mental health trauma from the seed of childhood to the height of adulthood. The subsequent arresting consequences landed her inside the walls of the criminal justice system for a total of 16 years. During those times of incarceration, Denise experienced being re-traumatized. Incarceration only taught her to suppress her trauma. During the loss of her mother Denise knew she had nothing left to do but survive the trauma, leaving her five children alone to care for themselves. Denise isolated and withdrew herself to revisit all the trauma-related disorders she experienced. In doing so, she embarked on a method of decarceration of her mental health traumas.
After eight years of freedom, Denise was able to review the journals she kept during incarceration and became inspired to bring awareness to women and young girls of incarceration through a re-entry program designed to decarcerate the incarceration of their mental health disorders, while providing a place called home.
Author of Decarceration of Incarcerated Trauma (Publishing soon)
Our Team
Betty Smith - Board of Director
Betty M. Smith is a retired Program Analyst at the USDA National Finance Center, serving on the Equal Opportunity Employment Advisory Committee for People with Disabilities and is past President of the Federal Employment Women’s Program.
Royce DeWayne Johnson - Board of Director/ Treasurer
Royce DeWayne Johnson is a graduate of Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, La. with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics. He is a programmer at the USDA National Finance Center, a real estate owner/developer under R. Johnson Properties, LLC and is founder of The Johnson School House (501c3) youth program.
Ashley Williams- Operation Coordinator
A New Orleans native with BA degree in business administration, a career in finance banking with a strong devotion to the non-profit sector and decades of volunteering and giving back to communities.
Sandra Starr - Assistant Program Coordinator
Reentry Specialist served 25 years behind the wall of the criminal justice system bringing awareness of trauma to the women and girls of incarceration.
Okerda Mitchell - Assistant Program Director:
Peer Support Specialist/Addictive Behavior Counselor
Dr. D Tyler Brown
Enterprise and Nonprofit Consultant/ Strategist.
Charmine Stith MA, LPC-S
Lead Counselor, Technology and Innovations