ESSIE JUSTICE GROUP
1700 Broadway Suite 200, Oakland, CA 94612 www.essieiusticegroup.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Essie Justice Group Is building a loving and powerful community of women with incarcerated loved ones. It's mission is to end mass incarcerations harm to women and communities.

Essies mission is to harness the collective power of women with incarcerated loved ones to end mass incarcerations harm to women and communities. Our award-winning Healing to Advocacy Model brings women together to heal, build collective power, and drive social change.

Healing to Advocacy Program: 33 member-leaders were accepted into Essies Facilitators Training Program and attended three weekend-long retreats to prepare to lead cohorts. We then launched 12 new cohorts in ten cities: Los Angeles, Oakland, Vallejo, Rancho Cucamonga, Walnut Creek, Fairfield, Fresno, Sacramento, San Jose, and Stockton. Essie provided childcare to approximately 50 children in these cohorts as a form of barrier-reduction for participants. In Fall 2019, we held three joyful and standing-room-only graduation ceremonies across California for the 109 graduates of the Healing to Advocacy cohorts: one in the Bay Area (76 graduates), one in the Central Valley (10 graduates), and one in Los Angeles (23 graduates). This increased our total membership to 209 women with incarcerated loved ones. In the Spring, we held an overnight Love, Leadership, and Liberation retreat for member leaders. 2019 was our third year partnering with National Bail Outs on the National Mamas Day Bail Out, resulting in the bail release of 123 Black mamas.

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