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Causes: Children & Youth, Crime & Law, Crime & Legal-Related, Human Services, Youth Development
Mission: AMICUS was founded in 1967 to facilitate the development of friendships between volunteers and men and women in Minnesota's prisons and has expanded to include post-release transitions, African-American programs and youth restorative justice. These innovative programs: - Promote caring, respectful relationships - Engage communities and resources to support offenders? self-sufficiency through successful transition into healthy community life - Educate the public in an effort to increase awareness and understanding, dispel fear, and promote justice - Forward its mission through promotion of the AMICUS model locally and nationally - Instill hope for the future, develop spiritually, heal communities and transform lives.
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.