The Eviction Diversion Initiative, which supports tenants at risk of losing their homes, is expanding to more housing courts across the city and state.
The Center and Columbia University Offer Postdoctoral Fellowship
This postdoctoral fellowship will focus primarily on forensic assessment with an opportunity to provide psychotherapy to people returning from incarceration.
A Supreme Court Decision Keeps Children in Their Communities
Native children navigating the child welfare system are uniquely vulnerable. Read about the recent Supreme Court decision that protects their right to stay connected to their families and communities—and the smaller, no less inspiring efforts to support them on the ground.
Inclusive, Community-Led Research: What Is Participatory Action Research?
Too often, research in the justice field is divorced from the real experiences and needs of the people being studied. Participatory action research flips the script, giving communities the chance to tell their own stories—and to change them.
Mental Health and Criminal Justice in Brooklyn: In Conversation with Judge Matthew J. D’Emic
For over 20 years, the Brooklyn Mental Health Court has been working to keep people with severe mental illnesses out of jail and in treatment. Hear from Judge Matthew J. D'Emic, who has presided over the court since its inception, on the importance of this work.
“People, Not Charges”: Combating Racial Disparities through Early Diversion
As Los Angeles County has recently shown, decreasing incarceration overall doesn't necessarily reduce racial disparities in the criminal legal system. Early diversion programs can make a much-needed difference.
For someone faced with an arrest, prosecutors are arguably the most powerful figures in the legal system. Can this power be leveraged to reduce, rather than expand, the harms of incarceration?
The 2022 Community Justice International Summit provided perspectives from judges, prosecutors, defenders, social workers, treatment specialists, community members and others on collaborative strategies to address issues such as opioid abuse, inequities in justice system responses, and centering the voices of those with lived experience in the justice system.
Q&A with Judge Rice: Opportunity Youth Part Two-Year Anniversary
Judge Jared R. Rice discusses the first two years of New Rochelle's Opportunity Youth Part, a program that addresses the needs of young people in the legal system by connecting them with the resources to divert or reduce their charges.
Safety is more than the absence of crime. It's about building power within communities. See how communities define safety for themselves, and our approach to helping them achieve it.
