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“If it weren’t for Camp AVARY, I’d probably be on the streets right now, smoking weed and doing drugs. But being part of AVARY is something positive that I can come to instead of doing all that other stuff.
I like AVARY so much, mainly because it’s a place you feel safe. You can talk to anybody, and you always have somebody there to catch you when you fall.
AVARY is just a perfect perfect perfect place to be!”
- S.A.
AVARY Counselor-In-Training
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Project AVARY Partner Organizations
AcroSports
Offers classes year-round for students age 18-months through adult in gymnastics, tumbling, circus arts, dance, and more.
Blue Water Foundation
Gives inner city and at-risk children the opportunity to experience sailing.
Centerforce
Provides services for prisoners, ex-prisoners, and family members of prisoners.
Environmental Traveling Companions
Opens the beauty and challenge of outdoor adventures to people with special needs.
Family Support Services of the East Bay
Provides support to parents and other caregivers of vulnerable children.
Pacific Leadership Institute
Promoting learn-by-doing experiences using challenge, the outdoors, and play as teaching tools for self-esteem, team-work, leadership, and life skills.
San Francisco Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership
A coalition of social service providers, representatives of government bodies, advocates and others who work with or are concerned about children of incarcerated parents and their families.
Slide Ranch
A non-profit teaching farm located at a historic coastal dairy perched above the ocean in the Marin Headlands.
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Local Agencies Serving the Needs of Children of Incarcerated Parents
The Chowchilla Family Express
Provides free transportation for the families and loved ones of the women incarcerated at the two prisons in Chowchilla, California to come visit.
Get on the Bus
Brings children and their caregivers from throughout California to visit their mothers and fathers in prison.
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National Agencies Serving the Needs of Children of Incarcerated Parents
Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents
Founded in 1989 by Denise Johnston and Katherine Gabel, our mission is the prevention of intergenerational crime and incarceration. Our goals are the production of high quality documentation on and the development of model services for children of criminal offenders and their families.
Family & Corrections Network
Since 1983, has provided ways for those concerned with families of prisoners to share information and experiences in an atmosphere of mutual respect.
Yellow Brick Roads
A non-profit organization, specifically designed to cater to the needs of children of incarcerated parents.
General Research & Information sources
Children of incarcerated Parents, C.W. Simmons, California Research Bureau, March 2000
Children of Incarcerated parents, K. Gabel & D. Johnston (Eds.) New York: Lexington Books, 1995
"Mental Health: A Report of the surgeon General" U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1999
Children of Incarcerated Parents, January 2006, Council on Crime and Justice
All Alone in the World, Nell Bernstein, 2005
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