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Creative Reaction Lab

United States of America

Creative Reaction Lab (CRXLAB) is creating a youth led community centered movement and professional pipeline challenging racial inequities in the education media health and government sectors. Through real world project based educational programs Black and Latinx youth apply a healthcare racial equity and design lens to community challenges impacting the quality of life and life expectancy of both races. Changing the way youth (and people in general) address systemic oppression CRXLAB has pioneered a social justice form of creative problem solving called Equity Centered Community Design. CRXLAB's vision is a world that embraces the humanity rights and power of Black and Latinx people.

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United States of America

Capacity Building

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Reentry Solutions

The Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that the number of parolees has risen to 4.3 million and that an additional 630000 persons will be released from state and federal prisons in the next year. Researchers Christopher Uggen Melissa Thompson and Jeff Manza estimate that number of current and former felons exceeds 13 million which constitutes 6.5 percent of the adult U.S. population and a staggering 37 percent of Black males. Despite this few resources have been devoted to develop an infrastructure to support community reintegration or address the institutional roadblocks that prevent ex prisoners from re entering their communities in healthy and productive ways. Discrimination against former prisoners in employment housing education and benefits contributes to high rates of recidivism. Reentry Solutions promotes the reintegration of former prisoners through community education leadership development and policy reform. Based in Oakland California it builds organizational networks and initiates statewide reentry justice organizing campaigns in California Texas and New York states that account for more than one third of all former prisoners.

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Capacity Building