Alongside the State of California’s Office of Youth and Community Restoration and The Vera Institute of Justice, The Center at Sierra Health Foundation is thrilled to announce the awarding of $3,673,380 to five community-based organizations in four counties (Sacramento, Imperial, San Diego and Los Angeles) to engage in Transform Youth Justice’s Ending Girls Incarceration (EGI) Initiative. These community-based organizations will work closely with their county’s Probation Department, Vera Institute of Justice and OYCR to reduce and ultimately eliminate the number of girls and gender expansive youth incarcerated in the juvenile justice system. Their work will span 24 months and address the disparities that drive girls’ incarceration in the four selected counties, as an urgent matter of race and gender equity. Learn more about the program and our new partners.
Funded Partners
Learn more about the five community-based organization partners, carefully selected to participate in Transform Youth Justice’s Ending Girls Incarceration initiative.
FosterHope Sacramento
Award amount: $450,000
Purpose Statement: To improve the health and social outcomes of young women of color and gender expansive youth in the county criminal legal system through healing centered mentorship, building youth voice and agency, life skills training and advancing a credible messenger framework. Serving Sacramento County.
Hooked on Fishing not on Violence
Award Amount: $550,000
Purpose Statement: To improve the health and social outcomes of young women of color and gender expansive youth in the county criminal legal system through personalized mentorship, healing circles, life skills training and wraparound services. Serving Sacramento County.
Rite of Passage Adolescent Treatment Centers and Schools, Inc.
Award amount: $673,380
Purpose Statement: To improve the health and social outcomes of young women of color and gender expansive youth in the county criminal legal system through community-based, gender responsive programming in the least restrictive environments. Serving Imperial County.
San Diego Youth Services
Award amount: $1,000,000
Purpose Statement: To improve health outcomes and empower girls and gender expansive youth at-risk of or currently engaged within the youth justice legal system through gender-responsive, trauma-informed mentoring, and educational and behavioral health support focused on personal growth, healing and community connection. Serving San Diego County.
Young Women’s Freedom Center
Award amount: $1,000,000
Purpose Statement: To improve the health and social outcomes of young women of color and gender expansive youth in the county criminal legal system through healing centered mentorship as well as safe and supportive housing as an alternative to incarceration. Serving Los Angeles County.
Cumulative Award Amount: $3,673,380.
The Center’s Transform Youth Justice – Ending Girls Incarceration Initiative is operated under contract with the Office of Youth and Community Restoration in partnership with the Vera Institute of Justice.