Advocates’ Community Justice Programs
Advocates’ Community Justice Programs
Advocate’s Community Justice Programs are specially designed and maintained to support individuals who may otherwise face barriers to sustainable, self-sufficient living in the community. Each of the programs assists adult men and women whose experience in the criminal justice system is grounded in behavioral health challenges, such as chemical dependence, mental health disorders, and/or trauma. […]
Center for Human Development
Center for Human Development fosters numerous social service programs designed to support the community’s most vulnerable members. The organization offers an expansive range of high-quality, community-oriented human services committed to encouraging, improving, and ensuring the dignity and welfare of individuals in need. These support programs range from emergency housing services to substance abuse and mental […]
Spectrum Health Systems, Inc.
Spectrum Health Systems is a health care entity that provides substance abuse and mental health treatment to individuals in crisis. Their mission is to offer a continuum of care that assists clients with reaching and maintaining sobriety, as well as pursuing personal ambitions in their individual lives. These services include adolescent treatment services, in-patient services, […]
Children’s Law Center of Masachusetts Juvenile Justice
Children’s Law Center of Massachusetts is committed to providing legal support services to low-income young people throughout Massachusetts. Their mission is to protect youth clients and at risk adults through a combination of legal support services, direct representation, holistic conflict resolution and policy advocacy. The center offers mediation, parental development planning and parent education resources […]
Essex County Pre-release and Re-entry Center
The Essex County Pre-release and Re-entry Center is a part of the Essex County Sheriff’s Office that assists with the reentry process. Originally opened as a home for boys more than one hundred years ago, but has operated as a housing facility for low-risk individuals and those nearing the end of their sentences over the […]
Massachusetts Community Justice Project
The Massachusetts Community Justice Project is a Massachusetts Trial Court initiative to assist individuals in need. The project was created by the Trial Court Task Force on Mental Health and Substance Abuse. The mission of the Massachusetts Community Justice Project is to assist with the development of sustainable solutions through strategic community planning and action, […]
Northeast Legal Aid
Northeast Legal Aid helps indigent and elderly individuals of Northeast Massachusetts attain justice and empowerment through deliberate, creative, and persistent advocacy for systemic justice reform and high-quality individual representation. NLA provides free civil legal services to low income and elderly community members and their loved ones in northeast Massachusetts. NLA offers full-service offices in Lynn, […]
Sixth Amendment Center
Sixth Amendment Center is a community based organization that advocates for the protection of constitutional rights. The Sixth Amendment Center works to guarantee that no individual faces potentially serving time in county jail buildings or prison without first receiving the assistance of a lawyer with the time, ability and resources to argue an effective defense, […]
Partakers
Partakers is a community based organization that seeks to improve access to higher education for incarcerated individuals. The organization advances the education of currently incarcerated women and men in prison and helps them to overcome to great divide that separates those inside and outside corrections facilities. Through its College Behind Bars mentoring program, currently incarcerated […]
The Massachusetts Bail Fund
The Massachusetts Bail Fund is a community based organization that supports indigent individuals in the justice system. The organization is equipped to cover bail in Massachusetts so that low-income clients can remain free while they work towards addressing their case, allowing individuals, families, and communities to remain productive, unified, and consistent. The Massachusetts Bail Fund […]