Programs

Bronx Child Trauma Support provides services to young people who have been exposed to violent crime.

The Bronx Community Justice Center works to create a safer, more equitable Bronx through community-driven public safety initiatives, youth opportunity, and economic mobility efforts focused in the South Bronx.

Bronx Community Solutions provides community-based alternatives to jail, restores community relationships, and helps participants avoid further criminal justice involvement.

Brooklyn Justice Initiatives seeks to improve how the centralized criminal court in Brooklyn responds to misdemeanor and felony cases.

The Brooklyn Mental Health Court offers community-based treatment in lieu of incarceration to defendants with serious mental health diagnoses.

The Brooklyn Treatment Court links defendants with substance use disorders to treatment as an alternative to incarceration.

The Brooklyn Young Adult Court seeks to provide meaningful alternatives to conventional prosecution for young people, ages 18 to 24, charged with misdemeanors.

The Brownsville Community Justice Center works to reduce crime and incarceration, and strengthen community trust in justice in central Brooklyn.

A pioneer in the creation of specialized domestic violence courts, the Center works to rethink and improve court responses to intimate partner violence.

The Driver Accountability Program is an innovative response to driving-related offenses that seeks to improve traffic safety and increase accountability among dangerous drivers. 

The Harlem Community Justice Center is a neighborhood-based community court committed to bridging the gap between the court and community to achieve fairness and systematic equity in housing, community health,  and access to justice.

Through housing, financial, and legal assistance, we help tenants navigate housing court to resolve critical repairs and prevent evictions.

Legal Hand empowers community residents to support their neighbors with the legal information they need.

Los Angeles is home to the largest jail population in the United States. The Center helps L.A. County advance supportive services to promote safe and equitable alternatives to incarceration.

Manhattan Justice Opportunities helps build a more effective and restorative justice system by providing comprehensive services as alternatives to traditional responses to crime.

The Midtown Community Court is one of the country's first problem-solving courts. It provides alternatives to fines and jail as a response to low-level crime.

Building a model for the future by reimagining public safety at New York City housing sites across the five boroughs.

Neighbors in Action works to make the central Brooklyn neighborhoods of Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant safer and healthier for all.

Newark Community Solutions applies a problem-solving approach to low-level cases in Newark, New Jersey’s municipal courthouse.

The Parent Support Program works with non-custodial parents to help them find employment, increase child support payments, and engage with their children.

Building on a traditional Native American approach to justice, the Center’s peacemaking programs focus on healing and community restoration rather than punishment.

Project Reset is a diversion program offering a new response to a low-level arrest that is proportionate, effective, and restorative.

The Queens Community Justice Center works to keep people out of the justice system and create thriving communities. For those in the system, it offers supportive alternatives to incarceration and criminal conviction.

The nation's first multi-jurisdictional community court, the Red Hook Community Justice Center seeks to solve neighborhood problems in southwest Brooklyn.

Rates of intimate partner violence remain stubbornly high and are rising in some areas, particularly communities experiencing the highest rates of gun violence and the impacts of over-policing. 

Save Our Streets (S.O.S.) seeks to end gun violence at the neighborhood level by changing local norms.

The Staten Island Justice Center seeks to reduce crime and incarceration by providing court-involved participants with services and by engaging the community in prevention programs.

The Strong Starts Court Initiative enhances the capacity of Family Court to bring positive changes to court-involved babies and their families.

The Supervised Release Program reduces the number of people held in jail simply because they cannot afford bail.

UPNEXT is a workforce development and fatherhood engagement initiative of the Midtown Community Court.

The Westchester Court Education Initiative promotes educational stability and academic success for students involved in the Westchester Family Court.

The Youth Action Institute is a public policy research fellowship that supports young New Yorkers in investigating and testing solutions to the issues and policies that affect their lives.

Youth can be transformative leaders, addressing inequity in their communities and the factors that lead to youth involvement in the criminal legal system.