WELCOME
to the Capital Region Community Page

This page is under construction, but soon here you will find:

Curated resources around reentry, policy, and local gov. in Upstate NY!
Community forum for local providers to communicate, ask and answer questions, and share news!
Grounding page for the coalition of reentry providers and advocates in the Capital Region!

WELCOME
to the Capital Region Community Page

This page came out of the Reimagining Reentry conference on 8/22/23 in Albany, NY.

We brought together almost 100 service providers, advocates, Sheriff's Department staff, and formerly incarcerated folks to discuss our Capital Region criminal legal system, reentry programs, local and New York State policy,

Co-hosted by Amanda Duff and Carrie Dunn-Herrera of Healthy Capital District, and Darby Larkin, creator of this website and reentry/ATI advocate in Upstate.

We brought together almost 100 participants and over 50 agencies, including:

Healthy Capital District - Saratoga County Jail - Healing Springs Recovery Center - Reentry Columbia - Center for Community Alternatives - Legal Action Center - Arkview Recovery Center - Fusion Recovery Center - Albany LEAD Program - Warren and Albany County Sheriff's Office

Resources

Here find a variety of linked resources related to reentry, alternatives to incarceration, alternatives to arrest,

Diversion NOT Incarceration

Recommendations to Reduce Incarceration of Black, Indigenous and People of Color with Mental Health Challenges

Report by Urban Justice Center: Mental Health Project. The report is geared toward NYC and informed by their contributors' extensive work in Rikers Island, but the data around folks with mental health challenges and the inability of the criminal legal system to help folks' mental health is excellent and universal.

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