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Programs

Our programs are making an impact on the ground in dozens of communities, and testing new ideas for improving the justice system. 

  • child artwork from Bronx Child Trauma Support

    Bronx Child Trauma Support

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

  • SOS Bronx

    Bronx Community Justice Center

    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.

  • staff and youth

    Bronx Community Solutions

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

  • Recess

    Brooklyn Justice Initiatives

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

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    Brooklyn Mental Health Court

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

  • BTC

    Brooklyn Treatment Court

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

  • BYAC team

    Brooklyn Young Adult Court

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

  • BCJC

    Brownsville Community Justice Center

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

  • Domestic Violence Court

    Domestic Violence Court

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

  • A whiteboard explains risky driving in the Driver Accountability Program at Red Hook Community Justice Center

    Driver Accountability Program

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

  • Harlem Community Justice Center

    Harlem Community Justice Center

    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.

  • Red Hook's Housing Resource Center

    Housing Resource Centers

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

  • Legal Hand Jamaica

    Legal Hand

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

  • Staff working in the LA County Courthouse

    Los Angeles County

    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.

  • 80 Centre St, Manhattan Justice Opportunities, a project of the Center for Justice Innovation

    Manhattan Justice Opportunities

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

  • Midtown Community Court hands out supplies during COVID-19

    Midtown Community Court

    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.

  • Neighborhood Safety Initiatives collage

    Neighborhood Safety Initiatives

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

  • NIA

    Neighbors in Action

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

  • Newark Community Solutions

    Newark Community Solutions

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

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    Parent Support Program

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

  • Peacemaking circle

    Peacemaking Program

    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 staff in session

    Project Reset

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

  • Queens Community Justice Center staff

    Queens Community Justice Center

    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.

  • Photo of Community Outreach at the Justice Center

    Red Hook Community Justice Center

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

  • RISE Project staff in orange t-shirts

    RISE Project

    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 Shooting Response

    Save Our Streets (S.O.S.)

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

  • SIJC

    Staten Island Justice Center

    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.

  • child development

    Strong Starts Court Initiative

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

  • supervised release program

    Supervised Release Program

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

  • UPNEXT

    UPNEXT

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

  • child with special needs

    Westchester Court Education Initiative

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

  • Youth Action Institute

    Youth Action Institute

    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 Impact Staten Island

    Youth Impact

    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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