We develop new forms of accountability that support a better future for all.
Overview
Too often, traditional responses to crime focused on punishment lead to cycles of harm, making it harder for people to repair their lives and leaving us all less safe in the long run. We partner with courts in New York, New Jersey, and around the country to center the dignity and humanity of every individual by connecting people to life-changing services, addressing underlying challenges, and building pathways out of the legal system. With compassionate responses that prioritize each person’s individual needs, we reduce incarceration while fostering accountability and a safer future for all.
Creating Safety for All
Typical responses to crime, like jail and prison, continue cycles of violence and trauma. Alternatives can foster accountability and create a safer future for all.
Rapidly emerging technology like artificial intelligence needs critical, human-handed policies and practices to protect fairness and ethics in the justice system.
Improving public safety and providing pathways out of the justice system by promoting opportunities for youth, investing in communities, and creating new ways of delivering justice.
We work directly with children and families, as well as with systems, to reduce and prevent system involvement, strengthen family relationships, and break intergenerational cycles of trauma.
Creating a safer, more equitable Bronx through community-driven public safety initiatives, youth opportunity, and economic mobility efforts focused in the South Bronx.
Empowering youth to become transformative leaders in their communities, addressing inequity and the factors that lead to youth involvement in the criminal legal system.
Our Syracuse team provides training and technical assistance, helps identify gaps in services, and works with communities to find strengths-based solutions to issues of crime and safety.
This Court Aims to Build Safety by Focusing on the Individual
By offering people the support and resources they need to find a better path, Manhattan’s Felony Alternative to Incarceration Court is working to build a safer New York for us all.
Co-Designing Community Justice: Why Co-Design is the Future of Community Safety
This three-part webinar series combines expertise from our new Community Justice Solutions and established Neighborhood Safety Initiatives to explore how communities can create safer environments and build long-term solutions for public safety. This introduction explains how sustainable community safety requires a fundamental shift in how cities approach problem-solving; moving away from a top-down systems approach and towards community-led solutions.
Co-Designing Community Justice: Community Engagement, Youth Voice, and Local Ownership
This three-part webinar series combines expertise from our new Community Justice Solutions and established Neighborhood Safety Initiatives to explore how communities can create safer environments and build long-term solutions for public safety. This session explores the work of the Bronx Community Justice Center and examines models of youth engagement that shift power and change narratives.
