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Men & Trauma Brief 1: Growing Up with Violence
IJ Men & Trauma Brief 1
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2023 Application
California Justice Leaders-Americorps elevates justice-involved young adults as peer navigators and community leaders. Join the programHave you been impacted by the justice system? Do you want to gain professional skills while helping youth successfully navigate their re-entry journeys? Come join the California Justice Leaders - AmeriCorps team! Apply Young people who’ve experienced incarceration face enormous … Continued
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Abdul AliAkbar
A native of San Francisco’s Sunnydale public housing projects, Abdul M. AliAkbar has focused his 16-year career serving marginalized communities. He started as a chaplain for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation before transitioning to work with formerly incarcerated people, at-risk youth, and their families. He has had various roles in the community including … Continued
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Research Analyst 1
Full-Time Position in Oakland, CA Who We Are Impact Justice advances safety, justice, and opportunity through boundary-breaking work that honors and empowers people and is changing expectations about what we can accomplish together. We imagine, build, and scale innovations, leverage research and other knowledge to connect the desire for change with informed action, and work … Continued
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What’s restorative justice diversion?
As the national conversation around defunding the police grows, the question remains: How do we reinvest in our communities? One option is to use pre-charge restorative justice diversion (RJD). The Restorative Justice Project at Impact Justice recently released a quick-read primer on the practice, along with what makes our model unique. Our model stands out as … Continued
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Restorative Justice Featured on V Interesting with V Spehar
Listen: Creating Safety and Healing Without Prisons V Interesting with V Spehar interviewed Cymone Fuller, Director of Impact Justice’s Restorative Justice Project, along with Danielle Sered, founder and director of Common Justice. Listen what they had to say about how restorative justice programs address harm without relying on a punitive system.
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Communications Coordinator
Full-Time Position in Oakland, CA or washington, D.C. Who We Are Impact Justice advances safety, justice, and opportunity through boundary-breaking work that honors and empowers people and is changing expectations about what we can accomplish together. We imagine, build, and scale innovations, leverage research and other knowledge to connect the desire for change with informed … Continued
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Become a Host
Open your home to the Homecoming Project Have you been looking for a way to meaningfully give back? Do you have an extra room in your home? Are you in need of additional income? Join our growing community of Homecoming hosts who are making a life-altering difference in the lives of those returning home after … Continued
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Mohamed Abdelfattah
Mohamed Abdelfattah is the Senior Communications Manager at Impact Justice where he helps elevate the organization’s reputation among key audiences and stakeholders. Prior to joining Impact Justice, Mohamed was Global Editor at Northwestern University and helped promote faculty experts in local, national and international media. In that role, Mohamed helped university professors draft, edit and … Continued