INDIVIDUALIZED
Services are based on the participant's circumstances, priorities, barriers, strengths, and goals rather than a single predetermined pathway.
About Collective Care Coalition
ABOUT COLLECTIVE CARE COALITION
Who we are
Collective Care Coalition (CCC) is a Philadelphia-based nonprofit organization focused on helping justice-involved individuals, returning citizens, and their families navigate the challenges associated with justice-system involvement, reentry, and community stabilization.
CCC was created from the belief that successful reentry requires more than a list of resources. Individuals may need someone to help them navigate multiple systems, understand available options, coordinate services, address barriers, and remain connected to support as they work toward stability.
Through individualized case management, court support, reentry navigation, employment and housing navigation, family reunification support, behavioral health coordination, care coordination, and trauma-informed supportive services, CCC seeks to help individuals build practical pathways toward stability and successful community reintegration.
OUR STORY
Collective Care Coalition was established in Philadelphia with a commitment to addressing gaps experienced by justice-involved individuals and returning citizens.
Reentry can involve navigating multiple challenges at once — court requirements, housing, employment, identification documents, benefits, behavioral health needs, family relationships, transportation, and connections to community services.
CCC was developed around a coordinated approach: rather than expecting individuals to navigate these systems alone, CCC works to help identify needs, connect resources, coordinate services, and support follow-through.
As CCC continues building its programs, partnerships, and organizational capacity, the organization remains focused on developing a strong, ethical, trauma-informed service model that can support individuals, families, referral partners, and the Philadelphia community.
WHY CCC EXISTS
Returning to the community can involve interconnected challenges.
An individual may be looking for employment while also trying to secure housing, comply with court or supervision requirements, obtain identification documents, reconnect with family, access behavioral health services, and navigate multiple organizations.
These challenges do not occur independently.
CCC exists to help participants look at the full picture and develop an individualized path forward. Through case management, navigation, coordination, trauma-informed engagement, and community partnerships, CCC seeks to reduce fragmentation and help participants remain connected to the resources that can support stability.
COORDINATED. INDIVIDUALIZED. TRAUMA-INFORMED.
CCC's approach is built around the understanding that reentry is not a one-size-fits-all process.
Each participant brings different experiences, strengths, needs, responsibilities, and goals. CCC works with participants to identify those individual circumstances and coordinate support accordingly.
COORDINATED
CCC helps connect different areas of a participant's reentry plan so that housing, employment, behavioral health, court responsibilities, family needs, and other services are not addressed in isolation.
TRAUMA-INFORMED
CCC recognizes the impact that trauma, violence, incarceration, loss, family separation, and instability can have on individuals and families. Our approach emphasizes dignity, safety, trust, collaboration, choice, and empowerment.
COMMUNITY-BASED
CCC believes successful reentry is strengthened through meaningful connections to community organizations, service providers, employers, housing resources, families, and other systems of support.
ACCOUNTABLE
CCC is committed to ethical practices, appropriate professional boundaries, responsible service delivery, participant confidentiality, and organizational accountability.
WHO WE SERVE
CCC's services are designed primarily for justice-involved individuals and returning citizens who may need support navigating court involvement, reentry, community resources, and barriers to stability.
Depending on program scope and individual circumstances, CCC may also provide navigation, coordination, and supportive resources involving families impacted by justice-system involvement.
ROOTED IN PHILADELPHIA
Collective Care Coalition is rooted in Philadelphia and focused on strengthening pathways between justice-involved individuals, returning citizens, families, community organizations, service providers, and systems.
CCC seeks to contribute to a safer and stronger Philadelphia by supporting successful reentry, addressing barriers to stability, strengthening community connections, and helping individuals access meaningful opportunities.
LEADERSHIP
Michaella Wisher
Founder/Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Collective Care Coalition
As Founder/Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Michaella Wisher provides organizational leadership and oversees the development of CCC's programs, partnerships, operations, and long-term strategy.
ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
CCC is continuing to build its organizational infrastructure, referral relationships, community partnerships, and service capacity with an emphasis on responsible and sustainable growth.
Our priority is not simply to grow quickly, but to develop services and partnerships that are ethical, practical, trauma-informed, and responsive to the needs of the individuals and communities we serve.
PROFESSIONAL BOUNDARIES
CCC provides supportive services, individualized case management, navigation, coordination, and trauma-informed community-based support. CCC does not provide legal advice or legal representation and does not represent non-clinical supportive services as licensed behavioral health treatment. When needs fall outside CCC's scope, CCC works to connect individuals with appropriate qualified providers and community resources.
BUILDING STRONGER PATHWAYS TOGETHER
Successful reentry requires collaboration. CCC welcomes opportunities to connect with individuals, families, community organizations, courts and justice-system partners, reentry programs, behavioral health providers, housing organizations, employers, government agencies, and others committed to supporting successful community reintegration.