Prisons and Jails

CASES/Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services
$100,000
Correctional Association
$75,000

A two-year grant of $200,000 for a diversion program for court involved women who have traumatic histories, as well as mental illness and substance abuse.

Joel Copperman, CEO and President
346 Broadway, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10013

A two-year grant of $150,000, approved in 2011, for mental-health work in the Prison Visiting Project.

Soffiyah Elijah, Executive Director
2090 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard
Suite 200
New York, NY 10027-4990

Friends of Island Academy
$50,000
Osborne Association
$50,000

A one-year grant for mental-health and primary care services for young people both during and after their incarceration on Rikers, and for support of their families.

Christine Pahigian, Executive Director
255 West 36th Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10018

A two-year grant of $100,000, for the expansion of the Therapeutic Tele-Visiting Intervention, which will be a direct video hookup between four upstate prisons and Osborne’s New York City sites, so that children in the City might regularly communicate with their incarcerated parents.

Elizabeth Gaynes, Executive Director
809 Westchester Avenue
Bronx, NY 10455