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	The following links will take you to the efforts of other organizations who share our concerns about the pipeline crisis and our efforts in creating winning strategies for young black men. 1. National 2. Local 3. Philanthropic 1. National
	American Civil Liberties Union Racial Justice Program's The School-to-Prison Pipeline The “school to prison pipeline” describes an alarming trend wherein public elementary, middle and high schools are pushing youth out of classrooms and into the juvenile justice and criminal justice system. Under the banner of “zero tolerance”, schools increasing rely on inappropriately harsh discipline and increasingly, law enforcement, to address trivial schoolyard offenses among even the youngest students.
	The Annie E. Casey Family Foundation The Annie E. Casey Foundation fosters public policies, human-service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today’s vulnerable children and families. In pursuit of this goal, the foundation makes grants that help states, cities, and neighborhoods fashion more innovative, cost-effective responses to those needs.
	The Building Blocks for Youth Initiative The Building Blocks for Youth Initiative is an alliance of children and youth advocates, researchers, law enforcement professionals and community organizers that seek to reduce overrepresentation and disparate treatment of youth of color in the justice system; promote fair, rational and effective juvenile justice policies.
	The Children's Defense Fund's Cradle to Prison Pipeline® The Children’s Defense Fund’s Cradle to Prison Pipeline Campaign is a national call to action to stop the funneling of tens of thousands of youth, predominately minorities, down life paths that often lead to arrest, conviction, incarceration and, in some cases, death. The CDF comprehensive report, America’s Cradle to Prison Pipeline™, released in 2007, in English and Spanish, includes policy recommendations and concrete calls to action to dismantle the pipeline. It also features state-based data as well as “promising practices” of successful programs and initiatives taking place around the country to prevent children entering the pipeline and/or to help them leave it.
	Community Service Society * The mission of the Community Service Society is to identify problems which create a permanent poverty class in New York City, and to advocate the systemic changes required to eliminate such problems. CSS focuses on enabling, empowering, and promoting opportunities for poor families and individuals to develop their full potential.
	Fight Crime: Invest in Kids Fight Crime: Invest in Kids is a national anti-crime organization of more than 3,000 police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors, other law enforcement leaders and violence survivors, which takes a hard nosed look at crime prevention strategies, informs the public and policymakers about those findings, and urges investment in programs proven effective by research.
	The National Center for Juvenile Justice The mission of the National Center for Juvenile Justice is effective justice for children and families. Their primary means of accomplishing that mission is through research and technical assistance. The vision of the National Center for Juvenile Justice is that juvenile justice systems in all fifty states, U.S. territories and the District of Columbia will have laws, policies and programs that ensure the healthy development and fair and equitable treatment of all children and youth, through the work of a movement of local, state and national advocates for children and youth, working collaboratively to advance a common juvenile justice agenda and through state-based network that is an effective and respected force for state level juvenile justice reform.
	Open Society Justice Institute - Soros Foundation Soros Justice Fellows Since 1997, the OSI has offered over $13 million in grants to more than 250 Soros Justice Fellows as part of a wider campaign to strengthen justice in the United States, and around the world. The OSI and Soros Foundations have given away over $6 billion to build democratic societies, including more than $796 million in the United States.
	Vera Institute of Justice: Center on Youth Justice The Vera Institute of Justice's Center on Youth Justice provides support to local governments interested in improving and reforming their juvenile justice systems. The Center provides an integrated mix of technical assistance, research, and planning services, thereby making the Center on Juvenile Justice uniquely positioned to enhance rational decision making in juvenile justice processes and support system reforms that deinstitutionalize court-involved youth while ensuring public safety. Vera Institute Brochure
	2. Local
	Agenda for Children Tomorrow (ACT) * 2 Washington St., 20th Floor, New York, NY 10004 (212) 487-8618 actnet1@earthlink.net The Agenda for Children Tomorrow (ACT) has for twenty years built collaborative groups of health and social service providers, consumers, and concerned others in order to create services for children and families that are comprehensive, non-duplicative, accessible, supportive of families’ needs and easy to use; and to connect economic development, housing and employment decision-making and resources to this network. Recognizing that children’s development is economically, physically, emotionally, and spiritually linked to the health of a neighborhood, ACT, a public/private partnership under three New York mayors, helps each community rediscover its hidden strengths and potential assets, and find its own solutions to meet its own needs. ACT brings together neighborhood residents, service providers, community and business leaders and local government officials in an alliance where all share the same goal: to make life better for the neighborhood’s families and children.
	The California Prison Moratorium Project The California Prison Moratorium Project seeks to end all public and private prison construction in California, and redirect those funds to develop and expand alternatives to incarceration for as many people as possible.
	Correctional Association of New York: Juvenile Justice Project The Correctional Association founded the Juvenile Justice Project in 1997 in response to increasing calls for more punitive and harsh responses to youths who become involved in the juvenile justice system. The Juvenile Justice Project seeks to reorient the justice system away from a punitive approach toward a stronger emphasis on community-based prevention.
	DJJ/ACS Initiative Focus: Dept. of Juvenile Justice Release to Parents Initiative, Collaborative Families Initiative and Workforce Lifestyles Initiative The Department of Juvenile Justice was created in 1979. DJJ’s mission is to provide Non-Secure and Secure Detention for alleged Juvenile Delinquents, and Secure Detention for alleged Juvenile Offenders whose cases are pending, along with post-adjudicated juveniles awaiting transfer to state facilities. DJJ detains youths in safe and secure settings. While in detention, residents receive an array of services such as, education, health services, recreation and case management.
	Good Shepherd Services 305 Seventh Avenue New York, NY 10001 (212) 243-7070 Good Shepherd Services is a leading youth development, education and family service agency that serves over 20,000 program participants a year. Focusing on high-need communities in Brooklyn and the Bronx, it provides a broad array of individual, family and school-based services to prevent youth from becoming disconnected from family, school and society. Continuing work originally begun in 1857, Good Shepherd Services works in partnership with the community, building a continuum of neighborhood-based support services that now includes over seventy programs – all dedicated to meeting the needs of vulnerable children, teens, adults and families and helping them make a safe passage to self-sufficiency.
	Mayor's Volunteer Center The Mayor’s Volunteer Center of the City of New York, a program of the Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit, brings together individuals, corporations, government agencies and nonprofit organizations to connect people and facilitate meaningful volunteer opportunities that improve the quality of life in New York City. Its goal is to make every New Yorker a volunteer. Throughout the year, the Mayor’s Volunteer Center promotes and organizes thousands of volunteer opportunities in partnership with community organizations and non-profits in all five boroughs.
	Missouri Juvenile Justice Model: Missouri Division of Youth Services Adoption of Missouri Youth Justice Model In the early 1980’s Missouri abandoned its embattled youth corrections facility, which housed over 650 juveniles, and switched to smaller, regional treatment centers that provide education, job training and 24-hour counseling. Missouri’s approach – originally pioneered in Massachusetts – aimed at creating a safe, non-punitive environment, where counselors helped troubled kids turn their lives around.
	3. Philanthropic
	The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation The foundation launched a new effort called Models for Change to create successful and replicable models for juvenile justice system reform through targeted investments in four key states: Illinois, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Washington.
	Open Society Institute Baltimore Initiative In 1998, the Open Society Institute, an international foundation founded by philanthropist George Soros, decided to open a field office in the United States. OSI-Baltimore was launched as a five-year initiative which was extended for three years because of the progress of its work. Over the course of an eight year period from 1998 – 2005, the foundation directed over $50 million toward targeted grants and technical assistance to achieve lasting change in Baltimore’s neighborhoods, schools, prisons, workplaces and government agencies.
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What is Prisoner Reentry? Prisoner reentry is the process of leaving prison or jail and returning to society.

The following links will take you to the efforts of other organizations who share our concerns about the pipeline crisis and our efforts in creating winning strategies for young black men.