Drug-Use
Programs
The Ithaca Plan
Organizations
The Drug Policy Alliance
VOCAL-NY
Homelessness
Reports/Programs
Housing Not Handcuffs: Ending the Criminalization of homelessness in US Cities. National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty.
Searching Out Solutions: Constructive Alternatives to the Criminalization of Homelessness. US Interagency Council on Homelessness
Serving and Protecting? Survey Results on Homeless New Yorkers' Experience with Law Enforcement, National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty.
Supportive Housing as a Cost-Effective Way to Reduce Homeless Shelter Capacity, Coalition For the Homeless, NYC
Unlocking the Door: An Implementation Evaluation of Supportive Housing for Active Substance Users in New York City, CASA, NYC
What is Housing First?, Housing and Urban Development, DC
Education
Across the country organizations are working to create safer and more successful schools without criminalizing students. The resources for school police usually come out of school budgets and do little to improve education. We need to divest from school policing, "zero tolerance" disciplinary systems and the "school to prison pipeline" and invest in restorative justice, counseling services, and basic educational quality.
Organizations
Advancement Project, Washington, DC
Black Lives Matter at School
Dignity in Schools
Educators for Excellence
School Investment Programs
Counselors not Cops: Ending the Regular Presence of Law Enforcement in Schools, Dignity in Schools.
We Came to Learn: A Call for Police Free Schools, The Advancement Project.