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Our Partners

SUSU is a year-round effort with national partners, culminating in a month of action during October. Connect with a SUSU partner in your community to find resources, programs for youth, and more.

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Breaking Chains Make Amends

Breaking Chains Making Amends is a 501c3 organization that provides scholarships for children and grandchildren of incarcerated people and victims of crimes. Additionally, BCMA has a prison ministry team that goes into prisons and conducts Spiritual Encounters.

BAYCIPP

Bay Area of Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership (BAYCIPP) is a regional coalition designed to leverage resources, relationships, programming, and talent to enhance awareness and advocacy for children with incarcerated parents.

Arizona State University Center for Child Well Being

The mission of ASU’s Center for Child Well-Being is to advance child and family well-being. Drawing upon the expertise of faculty from across ASU's research enterprise, we work to increase resilience among families and to build safer and more vibrant communities for young people.

Amachi Pgh

Amachi Pittsburgh raises awareness and delivers services to give children a fighting chance-- when the community is knowledgeable about the challenges that they face, children have the support they need to thrive.

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Dr. Muhammad Experience

For more than a decade, Dr. Muhammad has been conducting groundbreaking research on the children of incarcerated parents and the consequences of parental incarceration on children.

DC Project Connect

The mission of DC Project Connect (501 .c3) is to provide crisis intervention and information resources to families affected by incarceration; we support reentry initiatives that strengthen families. Our bibliotherapeutic children's books are designed to support caregivers and children during discussions about parental incarceration.

Connecticut Children of INcarcerated Parents Initiative

The CIP Initiative seeks to improve the quality of supports for children with incarcerated parents by using the various data and knowledge it gains to inform public policy and practice.

Coastal Horizons

Our Children’s Place of Coastal Horizons Center is a statewide program committed to the well-being of these children through advocacy, education, and outreach.

Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood

The Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood seeks to address systemic challenges and needs experienced by children and families, including children of incarcerated parents, living in the New York Greater Hudson area.

ForeverFamily Georgia

Foreverfamily, Atlanta offers supportive programs for children of incarcerated parents and transportation to select prisons in Georgia.

Echoes of Incarceration

Youth led video journalism program that highlights issues that youth care about, including parental incarceration and criminal justice reform.

DreamCatchers

DreamCatchers

National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated

The mission of the NRCCFI is to raise awareness about the needs and concerns of the children of the incarcerated and their families.

KidsMates

KidsMates is a national non-profit organization that we co-founded to promote resilience in the face of childhood adversity.

International Coalition for Children of Incarcerated Parents

International Coalition for Children of INcarcerated Parents

Hour Children

Hour Children supports families during a mother's incarceration and helps families get back on their feet upon release by providing housing, childcare, job training, and mental health services.

Osborne

Osborne works to replace punitive systems with community-generated solutions that promote healing, equity, accountability, and justice.

New York Initiative for Children of Incarcerated Parents

NYCIP raises awareness, promotes policies and practices, and builds partnerships to ensure that children’s rights are upheld, relationships supported, and their potential nurtured during their parent’s involvement in the criminal legal system.

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New Hour Long Island

New Hour Long Island

New Hope Oklahoma

New Hope Oklahoma is an organization that wants to prevent youth incarceration by providing them with local resources like after-school programs, summer camps, and community events to meet the physical, social, and emotional needs of youth and families.

ScholarCHIPS

ScholarCHIPS is a 501c3 organization whose mission is to provide college scholarships, mentoring, mental health supports and a robust support network to college-bound young adults who have incarcerated parents, inspiring them to complete their college education.

Project What! at Community Works West

Project WHAT! is a youth-led internship for Children of Incarcerated Parents in the Bay Area. Youth build community with peers who share their life experiences while developing leadership skills.

PathFinders Network

PathFinders Network

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Omowale Project

The Omowale Project

Resources

More artwork and stories from Children and Youth of Incarcerated Parents

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WEGOTUSNOW

We Got Us Now is a nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy organization amplifying the issues children and young adults with incarcerated parents face due to mass incarceration.

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US Dream Academy

The U.S. Dream Academy is helping our nation's children reach for their dreams. Through academic, social, and values enrichment, we empower those children most at risk of incarceration to believe in themselves and to succeed.

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