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All AVARY programs are offered at no cost to participants. Your tax-deductible donation helps children learn how to deal constructively with conflict. We appreciate your generosity.
"You all have meant so much to me and my child. You have no idea. Exposing her to positive things at a young age. Helping her keep centered and on track. People tell me I’m a good dad, but I say I had a lot of help." ~ H.S. |
Project AVARY supports children & youth with incarcerated parents in developing the skills, confidence, and positive life views that promote healthy personal development and responsibility to community.
We're a regional organization, serving young people throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. This allows AVARY participants to remain in the program, even if their home placement or living situation changes.
The California Research Bureau estimates there are approximately 106,000 children with incarcerated parents living in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. The CRB also maintains that these children are up to five times more likely than other children to experience incarceration sometime in their lives because of:
The project is the result of a collaboration between Chaplain Earl Smith of San Quentin State Prison and our founder, Danny Rifkin. In 1998, while working together on a different project, Chaplain Smith remarked to Rifkin that in all his work with inmates and their families, it was the children who most often failed to get much needed attention.
AVARY became a reality with the first Summer Camp in 1999. The pilot session brought 32 children the Sierra foothills for one week. Since that first Summer, we've grown in size and breadth, becoming a year-round enrichment program for more than 150 children and their families.
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