CJNY Member Program Descriptions

Aftermath Tutorial Service, Inc. (Oakland, CA) - A non-profit community based organization that provides tutoring, mentoring and substance abuse counseling to court-involved youth throughout the bay area.

Ali International (San Francisco, CA) - provides personal and professional training and consulting to non-profits for the purpose of further developing community-based programs for people of color.

Alternative Rehabilitation Communities, Inc. (Harrisburg, PA) - A.R.C. provides the continuum of services to juvenile delinquents of PA. These services include residential care; secure care, special needs care, foster care, aftercare and alternative education. A.R.C. has nine residential programs that help at-risk youth. Eight of these programs assist male juvenile offenders while the remaining programs assists female juvenile offenders. All facilities provide on-sight educational services.

Am I My Brother's Keeper (AIMBK) - A faith based organization with a mission of providing social justice for all individuals and families in crisis. AIMBK has a community resource center that provides after care services designed to reintegrate individuals back into mainstream society as productive citizens.

Asian Freedom Project (Madison, WI) - A grassroots community youth organization that works towards the political, social, cultural, and economic empowerment of the A.P.I. community.

Associated Marine Institutes (Columbia, SC & Tampa, FL.) - A non-profit organization dedicated to helping troubled youth develop into responsible and productive citizens by working in partnerships with agencies, local communities and families.

Barrio Unidos (Santa Cruz, CA) - is a multicultural, non-profit organization whose mission is to prevent and curtail violence among youth by providing them with alternatives.

Bayview Hunter's Point Foundation provides counseling services for adolescent youth ages 12-21. They also provide juvenile intervention services, social activities and sports opportunities for youth on probation.

Be Present, Inc. (Atlanta, GA) - is a National nonprofit organization that organizes diverse women and girls in a national network of community activist committed to achieving a world that values the skills and leadership of women and is willing to work with women to achieve social change in families, our communities and the progressive movement.

Bronx Connect - Urban Youth Alliance (Bronx, NY) - Urban Youth Alliance trains young people for leadership and provides Alternative - to - Incarceration services for Bronx youth ages 12 - 18.

Center for Community Alternatives, Inc. (New York, NY & Syracuse, NY) - CCA is a private, not-for-profit agency, which works in the fields of criminal and juvenile justice and related human service systems as well as research, training and technical assistance in those fields.

Bronx PRYDE (Bronx, NY) provides space, resources and training to youth in the South Bronx to promote their personal transformation, political development and collective consciousness so they can use their strengths and talents in creating justice with their lives, families and community.

Brothers Against Guns (San Francisco, CA) - is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the youth of San Francisco. They collaborate with the school district, Park and Recreation, Housing Authority and other local community organizations to prevent youth violence and incarceration through education, intervention, recreation and comprehensive support services.

Center for Community Learning and Development (San Diego, CA) - is based out of Springfield Community College in San Diego and was established to enhance our communities through improving the quality of human service delivery and through community-based partnership and development that lead toward social and economic justice.

Center for Young Women's Development (San Francisco, CA) - is a community-based organization whose mission is to promote economic self-sufficiency, community safety, and youth advocacy by providing peer run employment and leadership development opportunities to low income women and girls who are homeless, unemployed and living on their own.

Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (San Francisco, CA) - They reduce societies reliance on incarceration as a solution to social problems.

Chicago Council on Urban Affairs (Chicago, Il) - Public policy civic organization, which provides research and advocacy around juvenile justice issues.

Chicago Youth as Resources (Chicago, IL) - Provide youth leadership development programs and grants to youth projects.

Children and Family Justice Center - Northwestern University (Chicago, IL) - A comprehensive children's law center that: Promotes fairness and human rights locally, nationally, and worldwide for all children regardless of color, religion, and ethnicity. Monitors efforts to transform the Juvenile Court of Cook County into an outstanding and vital community resource. Develops community-based alternatives to divert children from the criminal and juvenile justice system. Recruits and trains volunteers attorneys from Chicago-area law firms to provide pro bono legal services to children and their families.

Children's Defense Fund - Black Community Crusade for Children (Washington, D.C.) - Aim to weave and reweave the networks of the Black community to help children by providing every child a safe start and a healthy start; they work to mobilize the Black community to help improve the lives of all children.

CH2A & Associates (Portland, OR) - is a Community Based organization that goes into the Youth Authority and work with the youth inside by teaching them trades. They also work through community colleges and employment agencies to provide incarcerated youth educational opportunities and employment when they are released from the authority.

Citizens Committee for Children (New York, NY) - They are a 58-year-old multi issue child advocacy organization.

The City School - Prison Empowerment Project (Dorchester, MA) - provides outreach and leadership development to court involved inner city youth as well as incarcerated men and women.

Civil Rights 4 Children (San Jose, CA) - is an association of parents and friends of youth in the juvenile detention system. They seek to prevent civil rights violations against their children and demand improvement in the quality of the environment and services surrounding their children while they are detained. They make their voices heard through their advocacy to governmental entities and testimonials at public forums.

Community Panels for Youth (Chicago, IL) - A community-based juvenile court diversion program.

Community Restoration Alternative High School (Los Angeles, CA) - A charter school that was developed in South Central LA out of communal need. Their program's purpose is to teach, guide and instruct their students by attacking the germs that cause the disease of youth and gang violence. They focus not only on the academic individual but also on the person as a whole and their approach helps cure the root causes and prevents violence from being spread to others.

Community TV Network (Chicago, IL) - TV production training of cable show for at risk youth. Focuses on youth empowerment and high light juvenile justice issues on their show.

Community Wellness Partnership (Pomona, CA) - They provide a violence prevention program and they empower their youth to organize for social change.

Des Moines Citizens for Community Improvement (Des Moines, IA) - To empower moderate to low-income youth through community organizing and youth development.

The Ella J. Baker House (Dorchester, MA) - A non-profit, community-based organization created and supported by the Azusa Christian Community, and led by Reverend Eugene F. Rivers. Since 1988 they have provided direct services to thousands of high-risk youth and their families by working and living "in the trenches" in Dorchester's Four Corners neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. They combine a settlement-house-style community youth center with direct outreach in the streets, courts and correctional facilities. They help at-risk youth avoid violence, achieve literacy, and access jobs.

East Bay Asian Youth Center (Oakland, CA) - Their mission is to inspire and empower young people to become life-builders of a just and caring multi-cultural society. They provide counseling, support, advocacy, and mentoring to elementary, middle and high school students.

El Centro del Pueblo (Los Angeles, CA) - is a non-profit community service agency whose mission is to provide social services in an effort to improve the quality of life for youth and families.

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (San Francisco, CA) - They document, expose and challenge human rights abuses within the US criminal justice system. They combine policy reform, media advocacy, public education, grass-root organizing, direct-action mobilizing, cultural activism, new technology and legal services to accomplish their mission.

Exodus Transitional Community (New York, NY) - A transitional community that assists recently released men and women from their incarceration to the "free world".

Families and Friends of LouisianaÕs Incarcerated Children (FFLIC) (New Orleans, LA) - FFLIC is a parent organizing and advocacy group working on juvenile prison reform.

First Defense Legal Aid (Chicago, IL) - They provide 24-hour legal representation for persons detained at Chicago police stations. They also provide legal education workshops and community advocacy.

Forest Hill Community House (Forest Hills, NY) - This is a settlement house founded to assist, strengthen and help improve the quality of life of individuals, families and communities.

Friends Of Island Academy (New York, NY) - They were established to address the needs of juveniles who were incarcerated in Riker's Island and not receiving adequate education from the school at Riker's called Island Academy.

Girl Talk (Chicago, IL) - A weekly program for girls ages 12-17, who is locked up in the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in Chicago.

Girl Inc. (New York, NY) - Their goal is to enrich the lives of NYC girl's ages 6-18 through partnerships and direct service programs. They also provide training and technical assistance for community based organizations.

Girls/Boys Project (New York, NY) - They conduct gender education workshops for 5th and 6th grade children in public schools on Manhattan's Lower East Side.

Girls Educational & Mentoring Services (New York, NY) - They provide prevention and early intervention services to young women at risk for sexual exploitation and violence.

Homies Unidos (Los Angeles, CA) - A non-profit organization that work with and assist at risk youth in whatever areas they need support.

Hope Haven Center (Marrero, LA) - They run a residential treatment center for children and adolescents.

Juvenile Detention Ministry - Archdiocese of LA (Los Angeles, CA) - They provide direct ministry and youth advocacy to incarcerated youth.

Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana (New Orleans, LA) - is a non-profit statewide law and advocacy center dedicated to juvenile reform.

Kaleidoscope (Chicago, IL) - They work with the most difficult and hardest to serve with no decline or punitive discharged and they share best practices with others.

Korean Youth Community Center (Los Angeles, CA) - is a non-profit agency committed to serving the evolving needs of the Korean American population in the greater Los Angeles area as well as the multi-ethnic Korea town community. Their programs are directed toward recently immigrated and economically disadvantaged youth and families.

LA CAUSA (Los Angeles, CA) provides leadership development, construction training, life skills and counseling. They additionally provide high school and GED preparation.

The Maryland Juvenile Justice Coalition (Baltimore, MD) is an organization that advocates for system reform and the rights of juveniles in Maryland.

Mothers For Justice (Santa Monica, CA) is a community-based organization fighting to end unfair disciplinary treatment and racial profiling in schools.

Multicultural Collaborative (Los Angeles, CA) - is focused on broadening and strengthening diverse networks of leaders working to advance social justice. Their mission is to identify, develop and promote creative models of inter-group collaboration that advance social justice, equity and community in Los Angeles.

Multicultural Education and Counseling Through the Arts (MECA) (Houston, TX) - MECA is a community-based, non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the healthy social, cultural, and academic development of at-risk, inner-city youth through education in the arts.

"N" The Classroom (Richmond, CA) - This is an after school program that provides courses to non-violent students, females, and/or detained students by focusing on issues faced by urban communities.

National Latino Children's Institute (San Antonio, TX.) - To date they are the only national non-profit Latino organization that focuses exclusively on Children. Their mission is to serve as the voice for young Latinos by promoting and implementing the National Latino Children's Agenda that is a statement of principles essential for the healthy and complete development of Latino children.

Near North Development Corporation (Chicago, IL) - Their work is in housing and community development. They do work within the housing units, juvenile justice, youth development, youth organizing and economic development.

Oregon Social Learning Center (Eugene, OR) - is a collaborative, multidisciplinary center dedicated to increasing the scientific understanding of social and psychological processes related to healthy development and family functioning.

PB&J Family Services, Inc., (Albuquerque, NM) operates Peanut Butter & Jelly Therapeutic Preschool and other parenting programs focused on child abuse and neglect prevention and family preservation.

Pacific News Service - YO! Youth Outlook/The Beat Within (San Francisco, CA) - Is a literary journal by bay area youth and about bay area youth life.

People Organized in Defense of Earth and her Resources (PODER) (Austin, TX) - PODERÕs mission is to redefine environment issues as social and economic justice issues, and collectively set an own agenda to address these concerns as basic human rights.

People United Together (Philadelphia, PN) - They help at risk youth ages 10-16 years old by providing after school and summer programs.

Prison Activist Resource Center (Oakland, CA) - They provide free information that fundamentally challenges the expansion of prisons in the US.

The Pico Youth and Family Center (Santa Monica, CA) provides the leadership and advocacy skills to disenfranchised youth and their families that are necessary to strengthen and sustain the community in which they live. The center also promotes unity, peace and social justice by requiring cooperation and advancing educational and economic opportunity.

Prison Moratorium Project (Brooklyn, NY) - is a grass-root organization of young activist looking to strategize against, resist and fight the prison industrial complex through political education, community based partnerships, youth organizing, prison activist trainings, campaigns and direct action.

Project Destiny Inc. (Lithonia, GA) - is a comprehensive family preservation program that seeks to change and modify the behavior of young people by providing positive alternatives while instilling Christian principles.

Project South (Atlanta, GA) - is a community based membership organization that develops and conducts popular political and economic education and action research for organizing and liberation.

Providence Youth Student Movement - A group of Southeast Asian Youth dedicated to anti-racist organizing and building the Immigrants Rights Movement.

Sankofa Safe Child Initiative Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health (Chicago, IL) - To provide public education, policy advocacy, training and technical assistance on issues related to the health and well being of adolescents.

Sister Outsider (Brooklyn, NY) - They creatively support new economic, educational, wellness, spiritual and leadership opportunities for and by young women of color ages 14-22 who are supporting themselves, living in the poor and working class community of Brownville and East Flatbush, Brooklyn.

SOUL (Oakland, CA) is a political education and organizing skills training center. They provide support and prioritize the development of young working class people of color to develop the skills necessary to build a movement.

South Bay Community Services (San Diego, CA) - is a multi-service and community development organization whose mission is to provide children, youth and families with services that reinforce the family's role in their communities.

Southwest Key Program (Austin TX) - is a private non-profit residential agency that was established as an alternative to institutionalization. They provide an operation of innovative programming for troubled youth and their families.

Southwest Youth Collaborative (Chicago, IL) - They run a city-wide racial justice campaign to end the Criminalization of youth through direct action, organizing and training.

Spirit Awakening (Los Angeles, CA) - A non-profit program that provides creative writing and life skills programs for youth and teens from "at-risk" environment.

St. Mary's Home for Boys (Beaverton OR) - A residential treatment center for emotionally and behaviorally disturbed boys.

Standing Against Global Exploitation (San Francisco, CA) - Provide life skills for girls, a program that helps girls who have entered or are exiting the juvenile detention system and may have experienced exploitation, violence or prostitution.

Tejano Center for Community Concerns, Inc. (Houston, TX) - improves opportunities for primarily Hispanic, low-income children and families through the provision of education, social and health services and community development initiatives.

TO-GA-HE-YO-HE Youth Ranch (Harlem, MT) - is a Native-American program that teaches youth who they are and where they come from through education on cultural traditions.

Tunica Teens In Action (TTA) (Tunica, MS) - is a youth leadership development component of Concerned Citizens For A Better Tunica County (FABTC), Inc. TTA actively seeks more young people to get involved in community work. They provide and obtain specialized leadership development training that will produce the next generation of leaders. TTA develops culturally appropriate community events to share history and struggle.

United Against the Criminalization of the Population (San Antonio, TX) - is an organization dedicated to youth empowerment through consciousness raising and organizing on a grassroots level to address the interconnection of issues on a local to global level.

Upright Treatment Center Inc. (Oakland, CA) - is a grass-root spiritually orientated program designed to facilitate the growth, development and success of youth in poor communities and youth who have been detained.

The Valley (New York, NY) - is a comprehensive youth service agency whose focus is to empower young people ages 6-24 to become independent, self-sufficient and responsible adults.

The Valley's Community Action Center (Los Angeles, CA) - Links theory, policy and practice together to build stronger, more informed communities.

Vera Institute of Justice (New York, NY) - Their youth justice program supports public officials who are engaged in reforms related to juvenile justice and child welfare.

Violence Prevention Coalition (Los Angeles, CA) - The mission of the Violence Prevention Coalition is to effect the reduction of violence and its impact on the health and well being of Los Angeles county residents through the participation and collaboration of a multi-disciplinary network of public and private representatives. The coalition acts as a resource provider, an advocacy body, a network for community connectedness as well as a network for cross training.

Voices Unbroken (Bronx, NY) - They coordinate writing workshops and trainings in "non-traditional" settings i.e. group homes, prisons, homeless shelters, living rooms etc. and they nurture workshop participants to become workshop facilitators.

Voices Of Youth (New York, NY) - They focus on kids in the New York foster care system. They provide personal healing to help young people prepare for life, they work with their youth to change their attitudes and they provide them with support and encouragement so they feel safe and appreciated at VOY.

Wild for Human Rights/Young Women's Leadership Program (San Francisco, CA) - Provides an empowering space for young women and girls to exercise their choices and leadership. Their program offers workshops and presentations for youth-serving agencies and schools to support young women in their efforts to protect and promote human rights.

Young Women United for Oakland (Oakland, CA) - is a grass-root organization that works to empower low-income disenfranchised young women by providing employment and leadership opportunities within their agency at a living wage.

Youth Alive (Oakland, CA) - They provide one-on-one case management and wrap-around services to youth involved in violence by influencing their interaction with positive community role models.

Youth Community Restoration Program (Santa Cruz, CA) - is a project of the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County and through weekend work projects, job training and mentorship the Youth Community Restoration Program is able to create positive behavior changes in participants, build self-esteem and provide further cultivation of the youths interest and talents through preparing for and seeking jobs with local business.

Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) (New Orleans, LA) - YEP provides legal advocacy and intensive care and case management services to youth from New Orleans who are incarcerated in LouisianaÕs juvenile prisons.

Youth Engagement Strategy (YES) - Established a teen court in Macon County, Illinois.

The Youth Leadership institute (San Francisco, CA) - works with young people, adults and systems that impact young people to help build communities that invest in youth.