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Building Youth Power to Transform Systems

The Andrus Family Fund supports the self-determination, power and liberation of Black, Brown, AAPI and Indigenous youth impacted by the youth justice, child welfare and other disruptive systems.

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Building Youth Power to Transform Systems

The Andrus Family Fund supports the self-determination, power and liberation of Black, Brown, AAPI and Indigenous youth impacted by the youth justice, child welfare and other disruptive systems.

Learn more about our funding priorities

Building Youth Power to Transform Systems

The Andrus Family Fund supports the self-determination, power and liberation of Black, Brown, AAPI and Indigenous youth impacted by the youth justice, child welfare and other disruptive systems.

Learn more about our funding priorities
Podcast
CJSF + AEJ

In the third episode of Organizing for Abolition. Envisioning Liberation. we hear from Jaime Koppel of Communities for Just Schools Fund and Geoffrey Winder of the Alliance for Educational Justice. They discuss abolition in the context of educational justice, and why dismantling schools’ policing infrastructure, culture and practice is crucial to that justice. Jaime and Geoffrey also touch on why creating the environment for schools to be safe spaces can enable individual students to thrive and lead to the liberation of whole communities.

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By the Numbers

Approximately $5M awarded each year in AFF grants

$73M awarded since 2001

43,580 youth reside in juvenile detention, correctional and/or residential facilities in the U.S.*

*As of 2017. Figure provided by Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

39,210 children ages 16-20 exited foster care in 2018**

**Figure provided by KIDS COUNT data center.

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