ABCD Health Service

Provides the people of the Commonwealth with affordable medical health services especially women, children, and the disabled. Provides educational resources about illnesses through community outreach programs.

ACLU of Massachusetts

Works daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.

Advocates, Inc.

Help people with psychiatric illness, chemical dependency, developmental disabilities, or other problems in living. Provide community-centered services that empower people to deal effectively with their difficulties.

Aid to Inmate Mothers- Boston Chapter

Provides services to incarcerated women to enhance personal growth and strengthen the bonds between inmate mothers and their children through social rehabilitation classes, Project Reconnect, and the Story Book program.

City Mission Society of Boston

City Mission Society speaks prophetically regarding the issues impacting Boston and beyond by means of education, advocacy, and direct service. It provides service and service opportunities in partnership with individuals, churches, and other organizations to foster social justice.

Community Change

Promotes racial justice and equity by challenging systemic racism. Acts as a catalyst for anti-racist action and learning. Educates public policymakers about institutional racism and its public policy implications.

Community Resources for Justice

A direct service agency, it works with individuals in, or at risk of being in, the adult or juvenile justice systems; individuals transitioning out of these systems back to their communities; and individuals with developmental disabilities requiring intensive support to be part of the community.

Crime and Justice Institute

A subdivision of the Community Resources for Justice, it is nonprofit agency that provides nonpartisan consulting, policy analysis, and research services to improve public safety throughout the country. It works with a diverse group of practitioners and policymakers, including corrections officials, police, courts, and political and community leaders. The primary goal is to make criminal and juvenile justice systems more efficient and cost-effective to promote accountability for achieving better outcomes.

EPOCA

Ex-prisoners and current prisoners, along with allies, friends and family, working together to create resources and opportunities for those who have paid their debt to society.

Join Together

Join Together, founded in 1991, supports nationwide community-based efforts to take action to reduce, prevent, and treat substance misuse and addiction issues. Join Together Online is a comprehensive network of website services providing news articles, resources and online tools, including www.alcoholscreening.org.

League of Women Voters of Massachusetts

The LWV encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy. The Administration of Justice Committee of the Massachusetts League leads statewide justice advocacy efforts for over 50 local leagues.

The Lionheart Foundation

Provides men and women in prison with rehabilitation and change through reading in the organization’s National Emotional Literacy Project for Prisoners. Provides rehabilitation and effective prevention for at-risk youth through its National Emotional Literacy Project for Youth At-Risk.

Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts

Provides civil legal assistance to poor people incarcerated in Massachusetts prisons and jails. Focuses on health and mental health care, guard-on-prisoner violence, physical conditions of confinement, and segregation/isolation through administrative advocacy, legislative advocacy, and litigation.

Massachusetts Human Service Coalition

Promotes having a caring and compassionate Commonwealth that meets all the basic human needs of all of its residents. Informs and unifies the many diverse elements of the human services and progressive advocacy communities to present a clear message on social needs to our legislators, policy makers, the media, and the general public.

Massachusetts Public Health Association

Seeks through advocacy, education, coalition building, and organized action to improve the public's health. Promotes the establishment of health care as a human right, and secure optimal community, personal, and environmental health.

Association for Behavioral Healthcare (ABH).

Formerly known as Mental Health and Substance Abuse Corporations of Massachusetts (MHSACM), ABH represents the community-based mental health and addiction treatment organizations of Massachusetts.

Mental Health Legal Advisors

Secures and protects the legal rights of persons involved in mental health and retardation programs in Massachusetts. Ensures that the rights granted are implemented and that services that they are entitled to are actually delivered.

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Massachusetts

Provides support, education, and advocacy for the mentally ill and their families. Also provides research and services and education for all professionals, providers, and the general public about the mentally ill.

National Association of Social Workers, Massachusetts Chapter

Promotes the advancement of professional social work practice. Advocates for all who are denied equal people under the law. Advocates human rights, social and economic justice, and unimpeded access to services all.

Partakers, Inc.

Dedicated to reconciliation between prisoners and society. Advocates for sensible humane environment within prisons. Helps prisoners obtain college degrees through encouraging citizens to provide support to individual prisoners.

Prison Policy Initiative

The Prison Policy Initiative documents the impact of mass incarceration on individuals, communities, and the national welfare in order to empower the public to improve criminal justice policy.

Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute

Provides essential skill-based self-esteem education to high-risk, underserved populations and the professionals who serve them. Teaches essential skills to the staffs of employment, healthcare, and government services.

Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry

Works in low-income neighborhoods of Boston to provide education and skills that would enable people to overcome poverty. Educates the affluent about the nature of new urban poverty to involve other communities in reforming society.