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.

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News and Events

Baer Faxt Invitational 2020

Baer Faxt Invitational 2020 September 15, 2020 Rockaway Hunting Club 615 Ocean Ave, Lawrence, NY 11559

AFJ Furniture Donation: A Gift that Keeps On Giving

AFJ In the News: Chronicle of Social Change

AFJ Panel--COVID-19 Pandemic: An Opportunity to Reimagine Rehabilitation for Juvenile Offenders

AFJ on #ICantBreathe

Avenues for Justice in The Economist!

AFJ talked about their challenges during COVID-19 in Economist article about jails and prisons around the world during global pandemic.

Telemundo: International Women's Day with AFJ!

AFJ Court Advocate, Carmen Arroyo, interviewed by Telemundo Un Nuevo Dia at International Women's Day Event

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  • "This is a program that really works. The only one I know of that does. Working from the premise that the individual, no matter how disadvantaged, must accept personal responsibility for his actions, the program has had dramatic success.”
    - Alain Bourgeois, Judge
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