Network Members
2nd Call is a community based organization designed to save lives, by reducing violence and assisting in the personal development of high risk individuals, proven offenders, ex-felons, parolees and others who society disregards.
A New Way of Life Reentry Project provides housing, case management, pro bono legal services, advocacy, and leadership development for people rebuilding their lives after incarceration.
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC) works to end mass incarceration in California. To ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, ARC empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network, comprehensive reentry services, and opportunities to advocate for policy change.
API-RISE's mission is to make freedom possible for the community of current and formerly incarcerated individuals, youth and families in high-risk situations, allies, supporters, and their communities. We do this through culturally sensitive direct support, education, power building, organizing, and advocacy.
The Arts for Healing and Justice Network (AHJN) is an interdisciplinary collaborative that provides exceptional arts programming in order to build resiliency and wellness, eliminate recidivism, and transform the juvenile justice system.
Brotherhood Crusade is a 50-year old grassroots organization with a vision of improving quality of life and meeting the unmet needs of low-income, underserved, under-represented and disenfranchised individuals. We envision a South Los Angeles devoid of health disparities, disenfranchisement and poverty-associated adverse public health conditions.
Californians for Safety and Justice (CSJ), a program of Alliance for Safety and Justice, works with Californians from all walks of life to replace prison and justice system waste with common sense solutions that create safe neighborhoods. Through policy advocacy, grassroots mobilization, public education, alliances and support for local best practices, we promote strategies to stop the cycle of crime, reduce reliance on incarceration, and build healthy communities.
Debt Collective is a membership-based union for debtors and our allies. Our current economic system forces us into debt–student debt for an education; a mortgage or rent for housing; debts for utility bills or phone bills, medical care or even incarceration. No one should have to go into debt to meet their basic needs! These debts are illegitimate and the system needs to change, and we are united to win that change. Cancel Bail Debt is a tool for individuals to connect with Debt Collective and dispute bail bond debt.
Cedars-Sinai is a nonprofit academic healthcare organization serving the diverse Los Angeles community and beyond. With pioneering medical research achievements, education programs defining the future of healthcare, and wide-ranging community benefit activities, we’re setting new standards for quality and innovation in patient care.
COLLECTIVE REMAKE is a unique social co-operative—in Los Angeles County—designed to support the creation of worker-owned businesses and other kinds of co-operatives with people who have been incarcerated and other individuals who have been pushed out of the mainstream economy due to race, sex, class, gender identity, age or ability. Co-operatives are a pathway to sustainable economies and community empowerment.
Community Coalition centers the voices and leadership of people of color as we collectively work to upend systemic racism. The formation of our organization 30 years ago during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic of the late 1980s and early 1990s is rooted in our deep commitment to racial justice. Founded intentionally as a Black/Brown organization, Community Coalition understands the power that lies in bringing people together and serving as part of a larger movement. We know firsthand that it is the people closest to the issues who know what is best for their communities.
The Community Veteran Justice Project (CVJP) is dedicated to ensuring current and former military service members receive the information, support, and services they need to use California's Veteran Statutes to improve their lives. CVJP provides specific services, policy advocacy, and community education to assist justice-involved service members/veterans with obtaining alternative sentencing for some felonies, and diversion for misdemeanor cases. This can result in treatment rather than incarceration, some cases being dismissed, and records being sealed.​
CROP provides formerly incarcerated individuals with full-service reentry support and 12 months of intensive training to succeed in tech‑focused careers. Our mission is to reimagine reentry through a holistic, human‑centered approach to advocacy, housing, and skill development for the future of work.
Creative Acts is an organization that seeks to transform urgent social justice issues through the revolutionary power of the Arts; to heal trauma, build community, raise power, and center the voices of those who are or have been incarcerated.
Defy’s entrepreneurial programs enable one of America’s largest forgotten communities to defy the odds. We equip them with new skills, new connections, and a new belief to match their new purpose, and succeed in their new life of economic independence.
Dignity and Power Now (DPN) is a Los Angeles based grassroots organization founded in 2012 that fights for the dignity and power of all incarcerated people, their families, and communities. Our mission is to build a Black and Brown led abolitionist movement rooted in community power towards the goal of achieving transformative justice and healing justice for all incarcerated people, their families, and communities.
Enki Health Services, Inc. (Enki), has provided multicultural and multilingual behavioral health services to adults diagnosed with severe and chronic mental illness and children and adolescents diagnosed with SED, throughout Los Angeles since 1978. We offer Evidence Based Practices (EBPs) for prevention and early intervention to children and youth, working with parents, caregivers, schools, and other agencies to provide effective, time-limited services.
The Executive Service Corps-United States (ESC-US) is a national network of organizations that provide consulting, coaching, facilitation and many other services to strengthen nonprofits, schools and government organizations. By helping nonprofits improve their management and governance we are improving the quality of life in the communities we serve. Our affiliates offer high impact volunteer opportunities to professional, including those with senior level experience in business, government, or nonprofits.
Cycles of poverty, community violence and incarceration persist throughout Los Angeles County. These issues are systemic – our programs address the root causes of trauma to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to thrive. This revolving door of recidivism disproportionately impacts communities of color and traps families in cycles of poverty and perpetuates community violence.
The mission of Friends Outside is to assist children and families, prisoners, and former prisoners with the immediate and long-term effects of incarceration, and to act as a bridge between those we serve, the community at large, and the criminal justice system, thereby enhancing the character of justice.
Since 1916, Goodwill Southern California’s mission has been to Transform Lives Through the Power of Work. We serve individuals with disabilities and disadvantages by providing education, training, work experience and job placement services.
Through an earth-based program of healing, self-actualization and connection to community and nature, Green Arrow Co-Lab provides a comprehensive gardening and mindfulness curriculum for youth and young adults who have had involvement with the justice system. Our mission is to support young people harmed by systemic injustice, structural racism and a societal disconnect as they reconnect to themselves and their future opportunities for success.
The GRIP Program is an evidence-based methodology developed over 25 years of work with thousands of incarcerated people and many victims/survivors. Rooted in Restorative Justice principles, the program’s trauma-informed model integrates cutting-edge neuroscience research. Students engage in a yearlong, in-depth journey to comprehend the origins of their violence and develop skills to track and manage strong impulses rather than acting out in harmful ways. They transform destructive beliefs and behaviors into an attitude of emotional intelligence that prevents re-victimization.
Founded in California more than 40 years ago, Health Net believes that every person deserves a safety net for their health, regardless of age, income, employment status or current state of health. Today, we provide health plans for individuals, families, businesses of every size and people who qualify for Medi-Cal or Medicare. Together with our 90,000 network providers, Health Net serves three million members across the state. We also offer access to substance abuse programs, behavioral health services, employee assistance programs and managed health care products related to prescription drugs. Health Net and its parent company, Centene, employ more than 6,300 people in California who work at five regional Talent Hub offices across the state.
HealthRIGHT 360 gives hope, builds health, and changes lives for people in need. We do this by providing compassionate, integrated care that includes primary medical, mental health, substance use disorder treatment and re-entry services.
Homeboy Industries is the largest gang rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world. For over 30 years, we have stood as a beacon of hope in Los Angeles to provide training and support to formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated people, allowing them to redirect their lives and become contributing members of our community.
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.
Our mission at Kindful Restoration is to facilitate recovery and reintegration for individuals affected by addiction. Using our Kindness Tool to guide interactions with empathy and respect, we provide comprehensive support both inside correctional facilities and in outpatient settings. We focus on nurturing physical, emotional, and social well-being, offering tailored counseling, mindfulness, and life skills development. Our approach creates a supportive environment that prioritizes kindness, aiding in the healing and successful transition of participants to a life beyond addiction.
L.A. Care's mission is to provide access to quality health care for Los Angeles County's vulnerable and low-income communities and residents and to support the safety net required to achieve that purpose.
CALIFORNIA BLACK WOMEN’S HEALTH PROJECT, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, was established in 1994 as an affiliate of the Black Women’s Health Imperative (formerly National Black Women’s Health Project) based in Washington D.C. We seek to empower women to become active participants in improving their health status.
LARRP is a network of public, community and faith-based agencies and advocates working together to ensure that our reentry system meets the needs of our agencies, communities, and the people we serve, both in terms of capacity and public policy.
LA-CAMFT is a local chapter of the larger state organization, the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)*. Like many local chapters, LA-CAMFT was formed to create a more intimate, localized, and accessible community of Marriage and Family Therapists for the purposes of networking, professional development, and career support.
The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH) is the largest county-operated mental health department in the United States, directly operating programs in more than 85 sites, and providing services through contract programs and LACDMH staff at approximately 300 sites co-located with other County departments, schools, courts and various organizations. Each year, the County contracts with close to 1,000 organizations and individual practitioners to provide a variety of mental health-related services. On average, more than 250,000 County residents of all ages are served every year.
DPSS is one of 36 County departments and serves over 10 million residents in a county larger in population than 42 states, encompassing 88 cities. DPSS is the second largest County department in Los Angeles County and the largest social service agency in the United States. DPSS has an annual budget of $5 billion and provides services to one out of every three residents in Los Angeles County. DPSS has a workforce of nearly 14,000 employees with the capacity to serve residents in 19 languages at more than 40 offices throughout Los Angeles County.
Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers (LADL) is a non-profit organization made up of its executive office and its five law firms. LADL and its 187 lawyers are committed to the families they serve and are committed to keeping families together. Our goal is to always advocate for our client and our client’s right to retain or regain custody of his or her child.
Second largest in the nation, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) serves over 600,000 students in kindergarten through twelfth grade at over 1,000 schools. The District also has over 200 independently-operated public charter schools, authorized by the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education.
LearningWorks responds to educational needs in the community by providing tutoring, mentoring, and alternative education opportunities designed to ensure the success of learners whose needs are not met by traditional systems.
With empathy and enthusiasm—to educate and empower returning citizens with holistic, evidence-based interventions while engaging all communities to emancipate America from mass incarceration.
Maternal Mental Health NOW believes that the mental and emotional experience of welcoming a baby to the family impacts the entire family unit.
We believe that addressing mental health during the perinatal (pre-conception to one year postpartum) period is as important as screening for gestational diabetes, and that a parent’s emotional well-being can have as much of an impact on the infant’s life as the nutrition that the baby receives in the womb. We work with healthcare providers, health systems, and state and local government to make the prevention, screening, and treatment of perinatal anxiety and depression part of the standard of prenatal and postpartum care for every new parent in LA County, regardless of their circumstances. We center historically oppressed, marginalized, and under-resourced parents at the heart of our work, as they regularly experience the most significant challenges to receiving timely, informed, and culturally appropriate care.
Meals in Motion is a California-based 501c(3) nonprofit organization that aims to combat food insecurity. Our mission is to empower families to combat food insecurity by providing knowledge, skills training, and access to healthy food choices.
Our programs provide free education and hands on cooking classes to underserved families. Our goal is to provide families knowledge and skills to become self sustainable. Focusing on food safety, budgeting, and smart shopping to combat food insecurity.
Founded in 1914, The Midnight Mission has been offering a path to self-sufficiency to men, women, and children experiencing homelessness since 1914. As a comprehensive homeless shelter and homeless services provider serving the Los Angeles homeless community, we take an approach that fuses care and compassion with meaningful accountability, providing the structure and the resources that people experiencing homelessness need to truly improve their lives.
Our programs provide free education and hands on cooking classes to underserved families. Our goal is to provide families knowledge and skills to become self sustainable. Focusing on food safety, budgeting, and smart shopping to combat food insecurity.
Our programs provide free education and hands on cooking classes to underserved families. Our goal is to provide families knowledge and skills to become self sustainable. Focusing on food safety, budgeting, and smart shopping to combat food insecurity.
Molina believes every person, family and community deserves access to high-quality health care regardless of their situation. Our mission is to deliver effective, reliable and affordable health care to those who need it most. We strive to meet the physical, social and emotional needs of each member and to strengthen the communities we serve.
We do this by offering a holistic, community-based approach designed specifically to meet the individual needs of our members.
What started in 1980 as one clinic in Long Beach, aimed at addressing the disparities in access to quality health care, has grown into 19 health plans across the country. For over 40-years we’ve been improving the lives of our 5.1 million members across the country by pioneering health care services exclusively for those with government-sponsored health care.
NCJW|LA is committed to advancing economic justice and equity for women in Los Angeles. We combine hands-on programs and services with activism and advocacy to drive change on a micro and macro level -- supporting the passage of laws and policies that ensure economic security, promote dignity, and expand the safety net for women and their families.
Pasadena Learning Gardens is a non-profit organization originally dedicated to understanding and transforming the way we produce, distribute and consume food. This path revealed much about the weaknesses and opportunities we face. We now look to the connection and collaboration we see in nature as a model for our personal and collective wellness. We advocate for our wellness program of eating well, moving more, and staying connected. We educate communities to understand what “good food” is and how to grow, buy and share it; we build and support learning gardens; we educate our communities to live more sustainably; and we facilitate community transformation through collaboration with neighbors on a similar journey.
Across the state, we help people find permanent housing and provide case management, medical and mental healthcare, benefits advocacy, employment training, and other services to help them maintain their homes stably. Since 2013, we have connected more than 9,000 people to permanent homes.
Phoenix House California currently serves over 37,000 women, men, and young people annually – including family members, parents, teachers, students, veterans, the homeless, and men who are recently released from incarceration. We often offer the only chance of recovery to the underserved and uninsured in our communities and give them hope and a second chance at a life they never thought possible. We are guided by our mission every day – to save as many lives as possible – we won’t let addiction win.
Building healthy relationships, families and communities free from sexual, domestic and interpersonal violence.
Project Rebound is a program that supports the higher education and successful reintegration of formerly incarcerated individuals wishing to enroll and succeed at university. By connecting students with critical resources, Project Rebound constructs an alternative to the revolving door policy of mass incarceration and increases community strength and safety.
Project Return Peer Support Network is a unique mental health nonprofit where staff utilize lived experience to support and serve others with mental health challenges.
Originally founded as Project Return in 1980 as part of Mental Health America Los Angeles, PRPSN holds the distinction of being the first “peer” mental health program in California. Peers bring their own personal knowledge of what it is like to live and recover from mental health conditions and have a unique ability to connect with others who share in this experience.
We walk side-by-side and in solidarity with Boyle Heights residents to build a healthy, safe, and thriving Boyle Heights community for all. Proyecto Pastoral’s mission is to empower the community of Boyle Heights through grassroots projects in education, leadership, and service.
The P.S. in P.S. ARTS stands for public schools. P.S. ARTS was founded in 1991 out of the Crossroads Community Foundation by Dr. Paul Cummins with seed funding from musician and philanthropist, Herb Alpert. They recognized that a steady decline in funding since the late 1970s had produced massive resource inequities in California public schools, and arts programs were virtually nonexistent in the schools serving the highest numbers of youth affected by poverty and systemic racism.
We are a network of people building resilience and creating positive change in individuals and communities impacted by incarceration. While embracing all those who are system-impacted, we give particular focus to youth, incarcerated youth offenders, and formerly incarcerated juvenile lifers. We provide programs that span prevention to reentry as we leverage our collective experiences, relationships, and resources to bring awareness, healing, and change full circle.
Our mission is to educate and create public awareness about recidivism so that programs for previously incarcerated persons who return home can succeed. We believe an informed public will encourage legislators to balance public safety with smart fiscal responsibility.
Root & Rebound’s mission is to support people navigating reentry and reduce the harms perpetuated by mass incarceration.
Self Determined Futures' mission is to empower and uplift disadvantaged and marginalized populations by providing comprehensive services and support. We are committed to addressing the unique challenges faced by these communities and working towards creating a more equitable society.
We are a community-based, nonprofit organization dedicated to liberating people from their internal and external obstacles through our innovative mentorship programs so they can freely add their unique value to the world.
St. John’s Community Health is a network of clinics in Los Angeles providing medical, dental, mental health, and substance use services as well as case management, supportive services, and outreach services. St. John’s started as a one-room, volunteer-run pediatric health clinic in 1964. Today, it is one of the largest non-profit Federally Qualified Health Center healthcare providers in Los Angeles and beyond, serving patients of all ages at over 20 locations including standalone clinics, mobile clinics, school-based health and wellness centers, and clinics in public/affordable housing developments.
For over a decade, we’ve helped people in the Inland Empire and greater Los Angeles area transition back to independent lifestyles after experiencing homelessness and/or incarceration, serving over 1,400 individuals and families.
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Street Poets harnesses the healing power of poetry and music to build community and inspire our next generation to write, rap and dream a new world into being for us all.
Success Stories is building a world free of prisons and patriarchy. We see individual and systemic acts of harm as symptoms of patriarchal beliefs that can be transformed.
We deliver a 12-week curriculum that helps people who have harmed to get clear on the people and goals most important to them, as well as obstacles, like patriarchal beliefs, they've placed in their way. After graduating, Alumni receive support and programming from Success Stories for life.
Ten Toes In serves as a Mentorship and Domestic Violence Prevention Program. To support, educate and empower couples during and after incarceration. We assist formerly incarcerated men to reintegrate back into society successfully and help them to maintain a HEALTHY relationship with their Partner.
Testimony Ministries Inc. is a 501c3 non-profit organization advancing the great commission and advocating for gospel-centered justice in CA. To see our communities blessed, Testimony Ministries provides reentry discipleship for believers who have been incarcerated. Through our growing statewide support network we offer fellowship, empowering opportunities, and practical pathways for believers to pursue the call of God in reentry so that our communities can be transformed by the redemptive power of the gospel.
The Los Angeles Veterans Collaborative is a structured network of public, private, and government agencies working together to reduce suffering and improve the lives of veterans, service members, and military families in LA County. This is achieved through strategically improving their access to services, reducing barriers and coordinating care, and influencing policy to improve their lives
Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural is a not-for-profit learning bookstore and cultural arts center. We support and promote the continued growth, development and holistic learning of our community through the many powerful means of the arts. The Centro provides a positive space for people to activate what we all share as human beings: The capacity to create, to imagine and to express ourselves in an effort to improve the quality of life for our community.
The Transformative In-Prison Workgroup (TPW) is a statewide coalition of individuals and organizations that believe in the transformative and healing power of community-based in-prison programs.
Our passion is grounded in health policy and health system transformation to achieve high-quality health care. As agents of change, we are a mission-driven, nationally certified women and minority-owned consulting firm.
The mission of The TransLatin@ Coalition (TLC) is to advocate for the specific needs of the Trans Latin@ community that resides in the U.S.A. and to plan strategies that improve our quality of life.
Our mission is to foster communities that promote healing and wellbeing through collaboration, education, and community engagement. Our vision is a trauma-informed Los Angeles. Trauma Informed LA (TILA) is an all-volunteer, grassroots born, nonprofit organization founded in 2014.
UCLA Health is among the most comprehensive and advanced health care systems in the world. Our mission is to provide state-of-the-art patient care, generate research discoveries leading to new treatments and diagnoses, and train future generations of health care professionals. Together, the UCLA Hospital System and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA strive every day to be a leader in setting the standards of excellence.
The UNCHAINED SCHOLARS are a group of formerly incarcerated MSW, DSW, and Ph.D. students working with ally members to dismantle the barriers faced by people impacted by the criminal punishment system. Upholding the values and principles of the profession of social work, the Unchained Scholars challenge beliefs, policies, and systems that marginalize, stigmatize, and dehumanize individuals with criminal records contributing to a cycle of economic and racialized oppression. Through advocacy and diverse community building, the Unchained Scholars live the change they want to see.
We’re a social enterprise that engages with situations where extreme poverty meets homelessness, mental illness and addiction. When a neighborhood, street or intersection earns a reputation as a place to avoid, we turn it around. Urban Alchemy is a peaceful and supportive presence, inviting communities to rebuild and restore a sense of pride and respect in urban spaces.
As a leading community health center in Los Angeles, Venice Family Clinic has devoted more than five decades to providing quality care to individuals, families and communities with compassion and dignity.
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Veteran Social Services Inc. provides temporary bridge housing and permanent supportive housing, substance abuse referral and resources, employment/vocational training, and case management services for United States Veterans and their families. VSS Inc is currently operating and providing supportive services at a 16-unit Interim housing complex in Los Angeles. VSS Inc. plans on developing bridge housing for Veteran women and Veteran women with children with onsite supportive services.
To support and uphold our community’s right to health by providing
quality, equitable & comprehensive care.
At Wildwoods, we are passionate about connecting people to nature. Our nature-based programs integrate outdoor education, science, and social-emotional learning and are designed for health, wellness, and community building.
A non-profit work development program whose mission is to "Train, educate, and prepare women for transformative careers in the construction industry.”
The Mission of Youth Mentoring Connection is to transform the lives of at-risk youth by caring for their wounds and shining a light on their gifts through an ongoing mentoring community, creative expression, and life-changing experiences; thus inspiring them to become thriving adults. Our Vision is of a community that brings vital connection, love, and healing into the lives of at-risk youth.