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.
The Driver Accountability Program is an innovative response to driving-related offenses that seeks to improve traffic safety and increase accountability among dangerous drivers.
Our Family Court Programs work directly with parents and families with very young children to reduce and prevent system involvement and interrupt intergenerational cycles of trauma.
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.
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.
Newark Community Solutions improves public safety in Newark, NJ, through alternative sentencing programs in the Newark Municipal Court, youth-based services, housing justice initiatives, and other trauma-informed, community-centered programs.
The Parent Support Program works to empower non-custodial parents to find and maintain employment, increase child support payments, and build stronger relationships 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.
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.
The Staten Island Justice Center seeks to reduce crime and incarceration by providing court-involved participants and community members with a variety of services and prevention programs.
Led by a team with lived experience and high social capital in the streets, the Street Action Network is a cutting-edge effort combining research, community action, and public policy.
The Strong Starts Court Initiative is a Family-Court based, specialized, intergenerational collaborative approach to handling abuse and neglect cases involving children birth to three years of age.
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.
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