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Restorative Community Conferencing in Alameda County
This infographic shows what happens when a young person’s case is diverted from the juvenile legal system to the Restorative Community Conferencing process.
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Adelaida Caballero
Adelaida Caballero is responsible for the smooth day-to-day operations of Impact Justice and its Oakland office. She manages the Oakland office’s administrative staff. She joins Impact Justice with more than ten years of progressive experience in office support and management. She comes to the organization from San Francisco Conservation Corps, which provides academic, job training, … Continued
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Responding to COVID-19
How we’re supporting the most vulnerable among us COVID-19 has changed life as we know it, but its impact on our criminal justice system could be catastrophic. The crisis has exposed the deplorable conditions in which 2.3 million people live every day—an existence now more perilous and shut off from public scrutiny than ever before. … Continued
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Why donate? Lift Up Humanity Everyone deserves to be treated humanely and with compassion. Your gift will help shift the narrative about people in the justice system. Propel Policy Change We create change at every level. Your gift will help fund next steps on a path to a justice system that is truly fair to … Continued
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AmeriCorps welcomes first cohort of members with prior involvement in California’s justice system
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 28, 2020 Press contacts: Impact Justice: Kyung Jin Lee, kjlee@impactjustice.org, 510-684-3122 CDCR Division of Juvenile Justice: Mike Sicilia, Mike.Sicilia@cdcr.ca.gov, 916-628-3280 California Volunteers: Cristina Valdivia Aguilar, cristina.valdivia@cv.ca.gov, 916-508-9018 AmeriCorps welcomes first cohort of members with prior involvement in California’s justice system California Justice Leaders members will serve as re-entry navigators to peers … Continued
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Overview Employee Resources Templates Learning Center Travel Zoom Video Conferencing Insurance & Benefits Logos IJ Avatars PowerPoint Templates Report Templates Email Signatures Logos Impact Justice & PRC logos IJ logos: Files available in color and reversed, with and without taglines, in JPG, PNG, and EPS formats. PRC logo: White background in PNG only. IJ Templates IJ Document, Presentation, … Continued
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Reducing Out of Home Placements in Alameda County: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons
Over the past 10-15 years, the youth justice system has seen a national decline in the total number of youth who are in post-adjudication ranches, camps, out-of-home placements, and probation. This follows two decades of steep increases in juvenile incarceration, a direct result of “get-tough-on-crime” policies that dominated our justice systems in the 1980s and 1990s. … Continued
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Lisa Capers
Lisa Capers is a senior program manager for the Audit Quality and Integrity (AQI) Division at the National PREA Resource Center and she is based in Austin, Texas. Lisa has spent her career advocating for the safety of youth in juvenile justice facilities. Prior to joining Impact Justice, Lisa was an attorney in private practice … Continued
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Building Justice Project
In 2016, Impact Justice began exploring a role for architects in ending mass incarceration. We believe significant changes in the built environment are necessary to curb enforcement and confinement as responses to crime and to abolish prison as we know it. Impact Justice partnered with legendary architect Frank Gehry and nationally known author and activist … Continued