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Truth Be Told is hiring for two impactful roles—Program Coordinator (Part-Time) and a Board Member role. If you’re passionate about making a meaningful difference in the lives of incarcerated women and believe in the power of healing, we invite you to apply. Be part of an organization that creates intergenerational change by promoting wellness and transformation. Submit […]

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Fox 7 News Austin highlights Truth Be Told in a recent news piece. Watch Video

Each month KUT 90.5, Austin’s NPR radio station, spotlights a local nonprofit that’s in need of help, in an effort to connect listeners with charities that make an impact. Truth Be Told was highlighted as KUT 90.5’s Get Involved Spotlight organization for August 2023. See the full story on their website here or listen to the audio segment below.

In an interview with Spectrum News, executive director Jocelyn De La Rosa explains what Truth Be Told is doing to help women in Texas prisons.

With an eye toward deepening the support offered to program graduates once they are released from prison, Truth Be Told has entered into a partnership with YWCA Greater Austin to bring low- and no-cost individual counseling to graduate peer facilitators and women enrolled in Truth Be Told’s virtual Healing Trauma program. “Learning to heal from past trauma can stir up a lot,” said Executive Director Katie Ford.

We are outraged and deeply saddened by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and countless others, and we stand against the systemic racism that enables acts of violence against Black communities and people of color by the police and criminal justice system. In our work to change the narrative of what justice […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OleuYxkK1J0 On June 10, 2020, Truth Be Told community gathered together virtually for an evening of poetry and essays by women behind and beyond the prison wall. In early March, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) suspended all visitation and programming inside prisons due to COVID-19. The day before the state department made its […]