DCRCA is involved in two major advocacy campaigns right now:

• Ban the Box - a nationwide effort to move questions about criminal history away from the front page of employment applications, where it may trigger prejudices before the applicant's full history can be known. Coupled with this is DCRCA's work with the Returning Citizens, or Reentry Movement and its efforts to get human rights laws applied to those who have completed their sentences. DCRCA hass been successful in working with others in removing "the Box" from applications for DC government employment. Work continues to build a base of support to extend the Ban to private sector employment as well.

• Washington DC has the highest rate of alcohol and drug problems in the country, and the second-worst treatment gap. DCRCA is working to close the gap and reduce the number of people - now one in eight residents over the age of 12 - with alcohol and drug problems. DCRCA's  mission is to reform the treatment and recovery system by extending it (early intervention and on-going recovery support) and integrating it into the mainstream public health and human services system.