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***We are at maximum capacity, and so we regret we are no longer able to offer Registration Scholarships or assistance with travel or lodging. Any openings that become available through cancelation will be offered to those already on the waiting list***Donations welcome!! (does not affect registration / position on Waiting List***

Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted Peoples & Families Movement

National Conference 2016

September 9-10, 2016 - Friday, September 9, 2016 at 9:00 AM - Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 5:30 PM (PDT)
Oakland, California

We are at very unique moment in our struggle. The public discourse is filled with talk about ending mass incarceration by elected officials, academics, correctional officials, and funders. We are organizing this conference to specifically strengthen the voices of formerly incarcerated people and our families and to ensure that our ideas are included in the discourse. As the Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted People & Families Movement, we have made real progress since our first meeting in Selma in 2011. As a movement, we need the opportunity to collectively discuss the progress that we have made. We also need the opportunity and space to determine where we should be going during the next Presidential Administration. In the past year, we have conducted several regional meetings where we presented expert panels of formerly incarcerated people and our family members. This National Conference will be an opportunity to explore our best practices and see what is being done across the country. We strongly encourage you join us for networking, sharing of resources, tabling and organizing opportunities, and we guarantee that you will meet some of the most interesting activists and people from our community.

We are also encouraging service providers, allies, foundations, and government officials to attend: this is a space in which formerly incarcerated people will be speaking in our own voices, sharing the wisdom and practical knowledge we’ve gained as activists and organizers over many years following incarceration, and discussing how best we can restore our rights and fully rejoin our communities.

Formerly Incarcerated People have elected to collectively and heavily invest in the conference. We have reserved the Oakland Airport Hilton Hotel and we have set aside resources to provided scholarship support to formerly incarcerated people and their families. We must once again pose the critical question we first raised at Selma when organizing the next conference: “Will You Be There?”

FICPFM is a group of national organizations comprised of & led by formerly incarcerated people dedicated to ending mass incarceration, restoring our rights, & removing the barriers to employment, housing, & education.

For more information please contact:

Aaliyah Muhammad
All of Us or None
(844) 953-8368 (Toll Free)
aaliyah@prisonerswithchildren.org

As soon as we finalize a conference agenda we will post it & email it to you.

We hope to see you in Oakland in September!

FAQs

What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?

The Hilton Oakland Airport is located, appropriately, near the Oakland International Airport (OAK). We will provide shuttle transportation to the Hilton.

BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) - Coliseum Station is nearby, and we will provide shuttle transportation as needed to get to the Hilton.

If you are driving, there is parking at the hotel ($8/day reduced rate).

Can I update my registration information after I submit it?

Anytime.

Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?

No, you can show it on your mobile device.

What is the refund policy?

Refunds are granted up 10 days before the Conference.

Are meals provided?

A continental breakfast and lunch will be provided Friday and Saturday. You are responsible for your own dinner.

If I received a lodging scholarship, what Hotel will I be staying at?

For people who have received scholarships for lodging, the rooms are reserved at the Hilton Hotel Oakland Airport where the conference will take place.