A youth organizing group that seeks to address racial and educational injustice through a campaign to implement restorative justice practices at a local high school campus.
Mindfulness and yoga programs for incarcerated and highly-vulnerable young people, including those in living in secure and non-secure detention facilities, as well as a Brooklyn-based program for young people on probation.
A victim-service and alternative-to-incarceration program based on restorative justice principles that works with young people who commit violent felonies and those they harm.
To support programs for children of incarcerated parents as well as a council that engages young people impacted by incarceration to develop campaigns around issues affecting their lives and communities.
To empower court-involved youth to drive policy reforms, including the campaign to #CloseRikers, a comprehensive multiyear effort to close Rikers Island Detention Facility.
To connect youth to employment, entrepreneurship training, and access to college credit to help navigate systemic challenges that make it hard to find sustainable employment.
To counteract the school-to-prison pipeline by elevating expectations of personal success for court-involved youth through job skills courses, individualized support, paid internships, and alumni network.
To provide court-mandated arts diversion programs for youth that engage them in social justice issues through the creation of large-scale public art projects.
To engage youth from the Red Hook Community Justice Center to develop a visual guide that helps the public build understanding around a pressing social issue.
