GRIP Training Institute

A powerful day of advocacy at the Capitol. 🙌

We’re grateful to stand with organizations across the state fighting to continue to push for investment in healing, rehabilitation, and trauma-informed programs that create safer communities and support transformation. ✨

On April 20th, GRIP participated in a Lobby Day at the Capitol alongside and a powerful coalition of community partners to advocate for the RIGHT Grant, funding that sustains restorative justice and healing-centered programs across California.

We’re proud to uplift GRIP’s Capitol Advocates—a dedicated group of survivors, alumni, and staff leading this work and showing what it means to advocate from a place of lived experience, accountability, and transformation.

The RIGHT Grant (Rehabilitative Investment Grant for Healing and Trauma) supports community-based organizations delivering trauma-informed programming inside CDCR institutions. Since 2022, it has funded nearly 100 organizations across the state. This year, we are advocating for $25 million to continue and expand this critical work.

We’re just getting started.

📍 Join us on May 20 as we return to the Capitol for another Lobby Day.

👉 Sign up to stand with us and take action:

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Stay tuned for more ways to support this movement and help advance healing-centered solutions across California. 💛

AdvocacyInAction

Our Executive Director, Kim Moore, was honored to be invited to a small convening in Sacramento to confront the crisis facing boys and men. and brought together state agency leaders, educational leaders, philanthropies, and community organizations to explore how to tackle rising loneliness, disconnection, lack of opportunity, and violence experienced by our boys and young men.

You can read more about the convening and California’s progress on these issues: https://lnkd.in/gyhTjGic

This topic is near and dear to our work. As an organization working with men incarcerated for having committed serious, violent crimes, we see the impacts of this crisis every day. We also know that there are solutions: it is possible to support the development of a strong and healthy masculine identity that is not rooted in violence and domination, and that leads to strong families and communities.

GRIP Training Institute is one of those solutions, and we are grateful to have contributed to this important conversation.