California TPW Coalition Members​

Interested in becoming a member? Email us at admin@thetpw.org

​Acting with Compassion & Truth

​We are a diverse group of individuals,  LGBTQ+ people as well as  heterosexual / cisgender people, of many races, ages, and faiths, who are dedicated to building empathy and compassion regarding gender identity and sexual orientation, particularly within the context of incarceration.

Ahimsa Collective

Working to respond to harm in ways that foster wholeness for everyone.

All of Us or None​

A grassroots civil and human rights organization fighting for the rights of formerly- and currently- incarcerated people and our families.

Alliance for California Traditional Arts

The Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA) promotes and supports ways for cultural traditions to thrive now and into the future.

Anti-Recidivism Coalition

Empowering formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network, comprehensive services, and opportunities to advocate for policy change.

Arts for Incarcerated Youth Network

An interdisciplinary collaborative that provides exceptional arts programming in order to build resiliency and wellness, eliminate recidivism, and transform the juvenile justice system.

Asian Prisoner Support Committee

Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC) provides direct support to Asian and Pacific Islander (API) prisoners and raises awareness about the growing number of APIs being imprisoned, detained, and deported.

Awareness Into Domestic Abuse

Our mission is to eradicate/abolish domestic abuse from the inside out, by deconstructing the distorted belief system of men who abuse and view women as an inferior, objects and/or property.

Barrios Unidos

Promoting multicultural social justice, nonviolence and economic equity through cultural healing, civic leadership and youth & community development.

BayNVC Safer Communities Project

Teaching nonviolent communication classes to incarcerated people at San Quentin State Prison and in jails in Sonoma County

Boundless Freedom Project

Lighting a path to freedom by sharing mindfulness, ethics & compassion practices with people impacted by incarceration.

California Coalition for Women Prisoners

Monitoring and challenging the abusive conditions inside California women’s prisons. Fighting for the release of women and trans prisoners. Supporting women and trans people in their process of re-entering the community.

California Reentry Institute

Our mission is to work with justice-impacted individuals to eliminate recidivism and rebuild communities through empowerment, healing and personal transformation.

California Reentry Program

California Reentry Program's mission is to assist people incarcerated in California prisons to a successful reentry.

Catalyst Foundation

Lighting a path to freedom by sharing mindfulness, ethics & compassion practices with people impacted by incarceration.

Center For Council

Center for Council delivers programs and trainings that promote communication, enhance well-being, build community, and foster compassion.

Choices for Freedom

Claremont Critical Justice Education

To confront mass incarceration as a defining social problem of the contemporary era. The initiative will coordinate collaborative justice education programs across The Claremont Colleges at regional carceral institutions, and with local community partners.

Coaching for Healing and Non-Violence

Bringing the rigor of the Coaching Certification program utilized by Leadership That Works to 26 men that are peer educators, teachers, facilitators and mentors at CSP Lancaster.

Coaching for Healing, Justice and Liberation

Coaching for Healing, Justice and Liberation aims to weave in patterns of liberation into the fabric of our lives. Liberation begins with the identification of how we are impacted by interlocking systems of oppression. Through coaching support we can see that the psychological and symbolic iron shackles that limit us are in fact open.

Community Works West

Empowering people impacted by incarceration, and using our work on the front lines to advocate for a more humane criminal justice system.

Compassion Prison Project

Compassion Prison Project (CPP) focuses on bringing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and trauma awareness to prisons and communities. We’ve created compassion-based curricula for people who have experienced ACEs, empowering them with awareness, information and tools for healing.

Creative Acts

Creative Acts is an organization that seeks to transform urgent social justice issues through the revolutionary power of the Arts; to heal trauma, build community, raise power, and center the voices of those who are or have been incarcerated

Defy Ventures

An entrepreneurship, employment, and leadership training program that serves people with criminal histories.

Family UNIty Network

Striving to build leadership of family members in the communities most affected by incarceration.

Getting Out by Going In

Providing Prisoner Leadership Training, Peer Coach Education, and positive decision making tools to any prisoners wanting to make positive changes.

Green Arrow CoLab

Our mission is to support young people harmed by systemic injustice, structural racism and a societal disconnect as they reconnect to themselves and their future opportunity for success through an earth-based program of healing, self-actualization and connection to community and nature.

GRIP Training Institute

Guiding Rage into Power (GRIP) Training Institute creates the personal and systemic change to turn violence and suffering into opportunities for learning and healing.

HEALING DIALOGUE AND ACTION

Healing Dialogue and Action envisions a world free from violence.

Humane Prison Hospice Project

​To help transform the way people in prison die in the United States by training prisoners in Compassionate End of Life Care and grief support.

Hustle 2.0

Hustle 2.0 is an innovative educational program designed to equip incarcerated people with the tools to transform their lives, impact, and hustle.

IMPACT / CARE Program

Designed to help break the power and influence gangs and violence wield. Working to maintain and expand our recovery community supportive services so that all persons seeking a healthy and safe supportive environment will have the opportunity to reside within one.

Impact Justice

Impact Justice dares to dream of a humane and restorative system of justice in the United States. Through innovation, research, policy, and advocacy, we are forging a new path to a justice system that is fair to all of us.

Initiate Justice

Ending mass incarceration by activating the power of the people it directly impacts.

Inside Circle

We build transformative environments for justice-involved youth and adults to heal, find purpose, and build meaningful lives of service.

Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program

An educational program with an innovative pedagogical approach tailored to effectively facilitate dialogue across difference.

InsideOUT Writers

Reducing the juvenile recidivism rate by providing a range of services that evolves to meet the needs of currently and formerly incarcerated youth and young adults.

Insight Garden Program

Facilitating an innovative curriculum combined with vocational gardening and landscaping training so that people in prison can reconnect to self, community, and the natural world.

Insight Prison Project

Transforming the lives of those impacted by crime and incarceration through evidenced-based programs designed to develop behavior inspired by insight, accountability, and compassion.

Jail Guitar Doors

Providing musical instruments and mentorship to help rehabilitate prisoners through the transformative power of music. 

Latino Coalition for Community Leadership

We seek out grassroots faith and community based organizations serving low-income youth and families. These providers are uniquely skilled to meet their community needs with a level of cultural sensitivity, understanding, and competence.

Lioness Tale Prison Project

Bringing transformational tools for spiritual freedom and emotional literacy to women serving long term to life prison sentences at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla.

The LIonheart Foundation

​Empowering trauma-impacted populations through transformative social and emotional programming. 

Marin Shakespeare

We offer Drama Therapy inspired programs that give participants opportunities for Shakespeare Study and Performance. Exercises foster self-reflection, self-expression, cooperation, compassion, and goal-setting. We practice being human together.

No More Tears

No More Tears (NMT) is a violence- and crime-prevention program founded in 2002 by men incarcerated at San Quentin and concerned citizens both seeking to remedy the rise of violent crime in their communities and reduce the recidivism rate of returning citizens.

Paws for Life K9 Rescue

Pulling dogs from city and county shelters and placing them with incarcerated trainers throughout California State Prisons who dedicate all of their time to their rehabilitation.

Prison Arts Project - William James Assoc.

Bringing the arts to institutionalized individuals is based in the belief that participation in the artistic process significantly affects a person’s self-esteem and general outlook on the world.

Prison Education Project

Expanding educational opportunities for inmates in 14 California correctional facilities.

Prison from the Inside out

Investing in the incarcerated community and transforming them from within.

Prison Yoga and Meditation

Prison Yoga + Meditation is committed to bringing trauma-informed yoga, lovingkindness, mindfulness, and quantum meditations, as well as self-compassion and breathing practices to incarcerated people so they can cope, heal, and restore their lives and their families.

Prison Yoga Project

Supporting incarcerated people with trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness practices to promote rehabilitation, reduce recidivism, and improve public safety.

Prison to Employment Connection

Connecting prisoners to the employment resources they need to succeed on the outside.

Project PAINT

Project PAINT is an arts organization that creates collaborative projects, conducts visual arts workshops, provides informative lectures and organizes public art events as rehabilitation to people who are incarcerated at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, and California State Prison- Centinela in Imperial, California.

Project Rebound at CSUS

CSUS Project Rebound works to transform those who are formerly incarcerated into scholars through counseling, mentoring, academic resources, and career development.

Project Rebound at Fresno State University

Helping formerly incarcerated individuals successfully reintegrate into society via higher education.

Project Rebound at SFSU

Supporting the formerly incarcerated on their journey through successful reintegration in a college setting.

Re:store Justice

Re-imagining and reforming our criminal justice system to be one of true inclusion and justice.

ReEvolution

Facilitating circles of intergenerational healing and support to reduce the risk of incarceration and recidivism.

Root & Rebound

Working to transfer power and information from the policy and legal communities to the people most impacted by our criminal justice system, so that the law serves, rather than harms, low-income communities and communities of color in the U.S.

STRONGHOLD

Stewarding sustainable shifts in systems and cultures towards equity and liberation through strategic consulting and restorative practices.

Success Stories

Facilitating workshops that help people at high risk of committing patriarchal violence overcome harmful gender behaviors and be their highest selves.

The Freedom To Choose Project

The Freedom to Choose Project (FTC) is all about redemption and the power of second chances. We assist men and women in stepping free of past identifications as “criminals” and re-identifying themselves as valuable members of our society.

The Last Mile

Preparing incarcerated individuals for successful reentry through business and technology training.

The Place4Grace

Providing services and programs aimed at restoring families and advocating for children impacted by incarceration.

The Roots and WingS Project

The Roots and Wings Project is a politically-charged, socially transformative project based theatre company with a mission to provide stage and space for voices of the unnamed, unknown and misunderstood.

TheatreWorkers Project

Dedicated to providing opportunities for members of underserved communities to tell their stories through the medium of theatre and to providing classical and contemporary theatre experiences that reflect and illuminate the human condition.

Tía Chucha's Centro Cultural

The mission of Tía Chucha’s Centro Cultural is to transform community in the Northeast San Fernando Valley and beyond through ancestral knowledge, the arts, literacy and creative engagement.

UnCommon Law

Delivering trauma-informed, healing-centered mental health and legal counseling to help provide a safe pathway home for people currently serving lengthy prison terms in California prisons.

Unconditional Freedom Project

We aim to transform prisons into monasteries. We view prison as a system. Our programs address the critical areas of food and nutrition, the interior life of its residents, and the wellbeing of its guards, in order that the system as a whole is elevated to an environment of inquiry, contemplation and sustainable change towards contribution.

Uncuffed

Uncuffed is a show made by people behind bars in California prisons. We share intimate stories of our struggles and triumphs, and of the heartache and forgiveness taking place within these walls.

Yolo Conflict Resolution Center

YCRC helps individuals and communities resolve conflicts, address interpersonal harms, and restore relationships through restorative justice and mediation services