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Celebrating 2025
Our 2025 year-end series of newsletters highlighted a variety of our program partners’ reflections on the profound need for structures of belonging: the spaces rooted in empathy, accountability, and connection that…
Read More“Hi, Neighbor!” Meaningful connections can help reduce recidivism.
On December 10, Beyond Us & Them cohosted its latest in-person offering for the reentry community, in partnership with Transform Health, exploring the topic of community health. Cecilia (Ceci) McLaren,…
Read MoreA Letter from Executive Director Jared Seide
We place an empty chair in every council circle we offer, whether in a prison, a police precinct, a classroom, or a board room. Groups practicing council imagine that seat…
Read More“Listening from the Heart” – A Conversation with Jared Seide
In this episode of the Peacemakers Podcast, hosts Jim Hōden Fricker and Geoff Shōun O’Keeffe sit down with Jared Seide to explore the simple, radical practice of sitting in a…
Read MoreBeyond Us & Them Hires Veteran LAPD Officer to Grow Peace Officer Wellness, Empathy & Resilience (POWER) Training Program
“Changing the way public safety looks” Lyndon Barber is the newest member of Beyond Us & Them’s expanding leadership team. Stepping away from his job as an officer with the…
Read MoreFrom Experience to Impact: Grantmaking & Identity in Reentry
On June 20, the Los Angeles Reentry Collaborative gathered for an inspiring afternoon of connection, learning, and storytelling at an event centered on Experience and Impact. With a focus on…
Read More“Investing in prison rehabilitation programs will make California safer,” a former warden and CDCR director urges continued funding for prison programming in a new Op Ed
Writing in the Sacramento Bee, Ron Broomfield — former warden of San Quentin prison and former CDCR Director — calls on California to “double down” on rehabilitation by funding the…
Read MoreThe FY2025 Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act (LEMHWA) Officer Wellness Grant Program is Open
The FY25 LEMHWA grant program is now open. This grant program funds projects that develop knowledge, increase awareness of effective mental health and wellness strategies, increase the skills and abilities…
Read MoreThe LA Reentry Collaborative is reshaping the way reentry looks in Los Angeles
Beyond Us & Them’s latest offering through the Los Angeles Reentry Collaborative project featured a reentry event centered on building from within. Workshops and council circles focused on strengthening internal…
Read MoreTricycle Magazine: “The Practice of Council”
Tricycle Magazine’s executive editor, Phil Ryan, spoke with Beyond Us & Them founder and Executive Director, Jared Seide, about the organization’s mission and the manifold benefits of council (you can…
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