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Children of Promise, NYC

Overview
Headquarters: 
Brooklyn, NY
Founded: 
2009
Populations Served: 
Children and Youth
About Us
Mission: 

To embrace children of incarcerated parents & empower them to break the cycle of intergenerational involvement in the criminal justice system.

Programs: 

In 2009, Sharon Content founded Children of Promise, NYC (CPNYC) after growing increasingly concerned about the lack of support offered to young people who experience parental incarceration.  

CPNYC is the first and only after-school program and summer day camp specifically designed to meet the needs, interests and concerns of children left behind by a parent serving time in prison. Since its inception, we have provided services to over 1,500 children and their families. The agency has developed broad collaborative relationships and community partnerships, raised over $5M dollars in government and philanthropic funding and established it's own innovative and holistic model to support children of incarcerated parents in leading healthy and productive lives.

industry: 
Nonprofit