Community Connections for Youth presents Girlz N Da Hood, a performance piece created to communicate the findings from the community based research project on the love, struggles, and endurance that femmes of color experienced throughout their justice system involvement in the Bronx.

On Friday, September 21st, CCFY released its report documenting the work of its Community Mentor Planning Institute in San Diego, CA.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City Department of Probation Commissioner Ana M. Bermúdez today announced that young people under probation supervision who participated in the Arches Transformative Mentoring Program were significantly less likely to have future justice system involvement, according to an independent evaluation.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced the investment of $45.9 million to create and construct five “Youth Opportunity Hubs,” a first-of-its-kind effort to knit together community-based providers and build new physical spaces for young people in target Manhattan neighborhoods; and an additional $12 million investment to help existing organizations specializing in family and youth development expand their capacity and develop innovative new services.

How did the nation start spending more on punishing young offenders than on trying to give them opportunities that would have kept them from breaking the law in the first place?

CCFY is offering Membership Opportunities. Now CCFY’s friends can join the movement to make sure that no child is ever put in prison! #NoKidsInCages

By DeVanté Lewis, an active member
 of United Playaz of New York who lives in the Bronx and works as an artist for social change and development. He is a co-author of the Support Not Punish Report.

With generous support from the New York Foundation, CCFY youth interns conducted their own research into the impact of the juvenile justice system on the local community.

Comité Noviembre has honored Jeannette Bocanegra, CCFY’s Director of Family Engagement, with the “Lo Mejor de Nuestra Comunidad” Award.

During Pope Francis’s visit to the United States this week, criminal justice reform will take center stage.

An independent evaluation of Community Connections for Youth (CCFY), a South Bronx non-profit organization, by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice found that youth who participated in the South Bronx Community Connections initiative were significantly less likely to be re-arrested than similarly situated peers.

What would happen if community stakeholders in U.S. urban neighborhoods plagued by the highest rates of youth crime and incarceration were given the opportunity to intervene early— and often— on behalf of young people caught up in the juvenile justice system?

Gold Medal programs are designed with high levels of integrity and theoretical compatibility with the science of adolescent development, and they were explicitly designed to prevent and reduce youth offending.

“America is now home to thickening ranks of juvenile ‘super-predators’ – radically impulsive, brutally remorseless youngsters, including ever more pre-teenage boys, who murder, assault, rape, rob, burglarize, deal deadly drugs, join gun-toting gangs and create serious communal disorders.

On April 2, 24 members of the Murda Moore Gangstas (MMG), a crew operating out of the Moore Houses in the South Bronx, were indicted on charges of conspiracy to traffic narcotics and guns.

Meet Lloyd. Lloyd is a recent graduate of the ARCHES program, an NYC Department of Probation initiative designed to help probation clients get out of the criminal justice system by strengthening their attachment to education, work and community.

Youth Advocate Programs, Inc., a national nonprofit that provides community-based services for court-involved youth, recently released “Safely Home”, a report that argues:

From Rikers Island to a college classroom is not an easy path for many who end up in jail, but a Brooklyn program is trying to help with that journey. NY1′s Dean Meminger filed the following report.

On a cool Saturday morning, young people from Mott Haven joined professional artists to prepare for a fabulous talent show. 

When Demetria Frampton’s grandson was caught in a fight with older boys at New Explorers High School in Concourse Village in September, some of the youth involved were immediately arrested.