Our Programs

Comprehensive Support for Every Step

From re-entry navigation to youth empowerment, our programs address every dimension of healing and community transformation.nto lasting community change.

Guiding The Journey Home

Re-entry Navigation

Reentry Navigators assist formerly incarcerated individuals in their personal journey to successfully reintegrate with families and communities. OAA navigators create supportive forums that serve as centralized hubs to provide safe space to meet, fellowship, and connect with various services.

Breaking the Cycle

Violence Intervention

OAA efforts are focused on reducing violence, promoting healing, and creating neighborhoods where families and youth thrive. OAA equips and trains Credible Messengers to become experienced violence intervention and prevention professionals.

Restoring & Unifying Families

Family & Community Engagement

OAA is intentional about restoring and unifying families. This can only be accomplished by bringing individuals, agencies, organizations, and community members together to solve existing and emerging problems that cannot be solved by one group alone.

Empowering the Next Generation

Youth Opportunities

Empowering youth to engage in structured and intentional relationships to transform attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. The goal is to assist youth in making better and safer decisions, pursuing their goals, and repairing relationships with family and community.

Restoring & Unifying Families

VIP² - Violence Intervention & Prevention Partners

A hospital-linked violence intervention program embedded in the Emergency Department and Trauma Unit at UAB Hospital — connecting gun violence survivors with immediate bedside support, safety planning, and community resources for up to one year.

Ready to Make a Difference?

Whether you want to volunteer, partner, or support our programs financially — every contribution changes lives.