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CCT helps people with criminal records find healthier and more productive ways of living.

07/29/2026

🏠 The Center for Women operates on a per-diem reimbursement model from NCDAC, which covers a small portion of what it actually costs to run a 30-bed residential facility where every woman is employed, in therapy, and rebuilding her life. The rest is funded by people who made a decision about this organization. People who understand food and feminine products are essential. People who understand a small investment to fund a bus pass so a resident can get to work is also essential. People who understand capital investments keep our campus operating smoothly.

Monthly giving is the financial structure that makes a residential program able to budget with confidence. It is not just a convenient way to give, it is the mechanism that allows clinical staff to be hired, family services to be sustained, and all that a state contract does not cover to remain intact.

CCT is part of Charlotte's reentry ecosystem because donors have made it so for 50 years. By the people who understand what the model produces.

If you have been thinking about becoming a monthly donor, the Center for Women is where your gift goes to work every single day.

➡️ Become a monthly donor to the transitional housing model that works!
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07/28/2026

🧭 July closes FY27's first month. The LifeWorks! pipeline does not.

Program graduates who started their job search in June are in interviews now. Some are in their first 90 days of employment, the period where the coaching relationship matters most and where the absence of it most often ends a placement.

America250 named July 4 the Giving 4th, a national call to make charitable giving part of how we celebrate what this country is supposed to be. That moment has passed. But the need for an employment advisor in Charlotte who knows which employers ask the hard questions and how to help someone answer them does not pass.

If you started the month thinking about a recurring gift to CCT and have not yet acted, this is the day.

$50 a month. One participant. Client advisement through placement and beyond.

➡️ Start your recurring gift before the month ends.
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07/26/2026

📍 At America's 250th, it is worth asking which institutions will not survive defunding, which choose consolidation, or which ones are quietly dissolved because the community did not make a decision to sustain them.

CCT enters FY2027 from a position of institutional strength: 50 years of operation, $1.8 million in net assets, three programs with documented outcomes, and a leadership team that is building intentionally for the future of a safe and secure Charlotte where second chances isn’t just a program; it’s in our community DNA.

What the next chapter requires is a rebuilt individual giving base because the funding landscape for reentry work has shifted, and the organizations that will still be operating in 2076 and beyond are the ones whose communities made a decision about them.

Major donors. Recurring givers. DAF holders. These are the people who make institutional continuity possible when grant cycles change.

This is the moment to be one of them.

➡️ Invest in the future of this work.
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07/24/2026

💼 CCT is a part of the Charlotte reentry ecosystem of service providers that help coordinate employment, housing, behavioral health, and more. Our holistic model includes residential care and behavioral health under one roof and supportive employment under the same roof at the Goodwill Opportunity Campus. This collaborative model produces outcomes donors can verify.

A DAF recommendation to CCT is a high-conviction gift to the infrastructure that makes second chances real.

➡️ Make your DAF recommendation to a proven ecosystem organization.
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07/23/2026

🌱 A justice system that incarcerates without treating mental health is incomplete. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that 43% of incarcerated people have a history of a mental health problem.

CCT's behavioral health program is built on a different premise: that the trauma histories many residents carry such as: abuse, neglect, addiction, and loss are treatable. That treatment produces outcomes, and a city serious about public safety invests in that treatment.

SUD and trauma programming, reentry action planning, individual and group counseling led by licensed clinicians. Graduate-level social work interns from local university partners.

These are not wellness extras. They are the clinical infrastructure that explains why no Center for Women graduate between 2021 and 2025 returned to NC state prison.

Recurring monthly gifts keep that clinical infrastructure funded when grant cycles shift. $75 a month sustains the behavioral health program through two group sessions.

➡️ Fund recovery as a public health investment.
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07/22/2026

🏛️ Most organizations do not survive 50 years. Most reentry programs do not survive five.

CCT was founded in 1974, and The Center for Women has operated continuously as a residential reentry facility since 1987. Through multiple administrations, shifting funding priorities, and every cycle of criminal justice reform that has come and gone without finishing the job.

What that kind of institutional continuity represents, at 250 years of American history, is organizational resilience and civic infrastructure. It is the thing that is still there when policy changes and the grants disappear and the people coming home from prison still need somewhere to land.

Legacy and planned giving donors are CCT's most strategic long-term partners. If you are in a position to make CCT part of your estate planning, or to make a major gift in recognition of 50+ years of continuous service to Mecklenburg County, we want to have that conversation.

Reach us at [email protected] or give directly below.

➡️ Honor 50 years. Make a legacy-level gift.
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07/21/2026

🔧 At 250 years, America is still working out what "equal opportunity" looks like in practice. For employers in Charlotte who have adopted inclusive and accessible hiring, LifeWorks! is what makes that commitment operational.

LifeWorks! does not just send candidates. It sends prepared candidates and stays engaged after the start date. Week three. Week eight. The probationary period. The moment things get hard.

That post-placement relationship is what converts a second chance hire into a retained employee. It is also what makes LifeWorks! one of the most valuable workforce partners in the Charlotte reentry ecosystem for our graduates and also for the employers who depend on sustainable talent pipelines.

The Goodwill Opportunity Campus impact partner model, which includes LifeWorks!, Commonwealth Charlotte, and Charlotte Community Health Clinic operating in proximity, is what ecosystem-level reentry support actually looks like. It works because it is funded.

Recurring monthly donors fund the client advisement that keeps employer relationships sustainable. $50 a month underwrites employer engagement for one participant through their first 90 days.

➡️ Invest in the employer relationships that hold.
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07/18/2026

👨‍👩‍👧 One of the least-counted costs of incarceration is what happens to families while someone is away. The child who grows up without a parent. The household that reorganizes around an absence.

One of the least-counted benefits of a reentry model that works is what happens when that person comes home prepared.

The Center for Women builds family reunification into the residential model. Housing navigation, connection to community resources, and structured support for the relationships residents are returning to. Not as an afterthought but part of our holistic program.

When a woman leaves the Center for Women, she is not just reentering the labor market. She is reentering her family. CCT treats that transition with the seriousness it deserves.

Charlotte is a healthier city when families stay together. Monthly donors fund the services that make that possible. $35 a month sustains family reunification support for one resident.

➡️ Support the whole family's transition.
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07/17/2026

📌 Every city has infrastructure that does not make the news but holds things together. In Charlotte, CCT is part of that infrastructure for reentry.

Fifty years of continuous operation. Three programs working in coordination — employment, residential care, and behavioral health — across the full arc of what someone leaving incarceration needs. A network of employer partners, clinical collaborators, and university relationships that took decades to build.

As America reflects at 250 on the gap between its founding ideals and its institutions, the organizations that actually close that gap deserve scrutiny and investment. CCT closes it in Mecklenburg County. The outcomes are documented. The model is scalable. The agency is stable.

What it needs is donors who think at the level of sustained institutional investment and not just program support. If you are considering a major gift to CCT ($5,000, $10,000, or more), our leadership team is ready for that conversation.

Reach us at [email protected] or give directly below.

➡️ Invest in Charlotte's reentry infrastructure.
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07/16/2026

⏳ Every outcome CCT can point to — a woman staying out of prison, a program graduate keeping a job past 90 days, has a behavioral health story underneath it.

As America celebrates its 250th birthday, there is growing recognition across sectors: healthcare, philanthropy, criminal justice, community development, that treating trauma is inseparable from producing lasting outcomes, and CCT's behavioral health team has operated on that premise since launching in 2021.

SUD, trauma, wellness planning, individual and group counseling led by licensed clinicians, and graduate-level social work interns from our university partners.

This is not a supplemental program. It is the foundation of the zero-recidivism outcome the Center for Women has held for five years running.

It is also the work that loses funding first when grant cycles shift.

If you hold a Donor-Advised Fund and are making 2026 recommendations, CCT's behavioral health program is one of the most underfunded, highest-impact places to send it.

The community that invests in healing is the one that spends less on reincarceration.

➡️ Make your DAF recommendation to the work underneath the outcome.
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Address

5825 Old Concord Road
Charlotte, NC
28213

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

(704) 494-0001

Website

https://linktr.ee/cctclt, https://centerforcommunitytransitions.org/own-your-journey/

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