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- EIN 80-0956021
- (510) 740-2508
- 1700 Broadway Suite 200 Oakland CA 94612-2141 USA
- www.essieiusticegroup.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Crime & Law, Inmate Support
Mission: Essie justice group is building a loving and powerful community of women with incarcerated loved ones.
Programs: Sister circle network: in 2017, essie justice group launched 5 healing to advocacy cohorts in three bay area counties and in los angeles. We trained 18 women with incarcerated loved ones as facilitators of the healing to advocacy model and after graduation, our membership base doubled. Advocacy: along with grassroots and policy advocacy organizations in our field, in 2017, essie justice group led a public awareness campaign about the impact that the money bail system and industry has on women with incarcerated loved ones, and in particular, black women. Thought leadership: essie justice group along with 14 partners led a participatory action research process and collected over 2600 surveys from women with incarcerated loved ones across the country in 46 states and puerto rico. The survey data and analysis is the centerpiece of a report published in the following fiscal year.