Avenues For Justice - Preventing crime by helping juvenile offenders in New York City

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Avenues for Justice (AFJ) is committed to keeping our youth and our community safe, informed, and healthy, especially during the rapidly developing COVID-19 crisis in NYC.
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Avenues for Justice keeps youth out of prison in a supervised program that provides court advocacy, tutoring and mentorship, and gets participants the drug, alcohol and mental health treatment and job training they need to succeed. We serve over 400 youths per year, and more than 90% of our graduates never commit another crime.
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We provide an alternative to incarceration with a greater than 90% success rate for just $5,000 per year per participant.

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Avenue For Justice's Goals

Keep kids out of prison - That's how AFJ stops New York City crime. Our goals:

1 Intervene to divert and reclaim young people from lives of crime.

2 Provide an overloaded court system a reliable alternative to incarceration.

3 Make New York City a safer place for everyone.

What people are saying

"This program provides a vital service - not only to the youth who come for help, but the judicial system and community as a whole. The staff has enabled many young people to make significant and lasting changes in their lives."
- Linda Hirsch, Social Worker

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