Bronx Community Solutions

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Bronx Community Solutions provides community-based alternatives to jail, restores community relationships, and helps participants avoid further criminal justice involvement.

Bronx Community Solutions limits the impact of the criminal justice system by reducing the use of incarceration, promoting equity, and working with residents to create safe and healthy communities. Built on our proven neighborhood community court models, the program reduces crime and incarceration at scale by serving the entire Bronx.

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Connect with Us

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Highlights

  • Driver Accountability Program

    The Driver Accountability Program is an innovative response to driving-related offenses that seeks to improve traffic safety and increase accountability among dangerous drivers. 

  • Project Reset

    Project Reset diverts people out of the justice system with a proportionate, restorative, and effective response to low-level arrests. 

  • Youth Impact

    Youth can be transformative leaders, addressing inequity in their communities and the factors that lead to youth involvement in the criminal legal system.  

Our Impact

  • 15,000 Bronx Community Solutions connects participants to 15,000 hours of community service opportunities annually—working on transformative projects in Bronx neighborhoods

  • 5,000 Bronx Community Solutions works with more than 5,000 cases each year

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  • 43% New York City credited Bronx Community Solutions with contributing to a 43% drop in jail sentences for misdemeanor defendants in the Bronx

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Photo Gallery

Bronx Community Solutions staff outside at an event; all dressed in Blue Bronx Community Solutions shirts and standing around a table with a blue tablecloth.
Bronx HOPE

Bronx HOPE represents an innovative approach to resolve low-level arrests for possession of a controlled substance by diverting eligible participants from the court system at the precinct

Bronx Community Solutions helping the community with a food distribution event outdoors.
Community Service

Bronx Community Solutions creates community improvement projects that address local needs which include painting over graffiti, packing food and care kits, and assisting with community events.

BCS Office Photo
Alternative Sentencing

Providing alternative sentencing options to judges reduces reliance on jail. In the case of Bronx Community Solutions, less than one percent of convicted clients receive jail sentences compared to 16 percent of a comparison group.

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Youth Impact

Staff provide opportunities to empower and develop local youth leaders. Youth Impact members are trained in restorative justice practices, attend educational and professional development trainings, and spearhead projects that give back to their community.

Publications & Digital Media

  • Publication

    Fact Sheet: Bronx HOPE

    Bronx Heroin Overdose Prevention and Education (HOPE), a new initiative of Bronx Community Solutions, addresses substance use issues with a harm-reduction model at the precinct level. By giving clients the option of accessing community services instead of appearing in court, Bronx HOPE gives Bronx residents the opportunity for rehabilitation and connection to community rather than jail or options that don’t address the underlying issues.

    Reducing Trauma, Rethinking Incarceration

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    Treatment Not Jail

    SG’s heroin addiction cost him his family, his health, and his job. He knew he had to stop before it also cost him his life. Bronx Community Solutions made the difference that helped SG change his life around. The opioid crisis is an epidemic, affecting thousands, but you can be a part of the solution.

    Diversion, Problem-Solving Justice

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    Community Justice Is... Showing Up for the Holidays

    In the Bronx, we celebrated with the second annual winter holiday giveaway event, featuring Councilmember Althea Stevens whose support will help our Bronx Community Solutions continue their vital work in both the courts and the community. Community justice means showing up to make the holidays a joyous, restful time.

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News

  • Juneteenth in the Bronx: Black Freedom and the Arts

    On a busy street just off Fordham Road in the Bronx sits the most visited library in all of New York City, the Bronx Library Center. Here residents, artists, social service providers, and our own Bronx Community Solutions team gathered to celebrate Juneteenth with art, performance, and a resource fair.

  • Where Justice Meets the Arts

    A source of beauty and hope and an instrument of change, art holds a mirror up to our society, casting light on injustice while bringing a better world into view. Take a look at some artwork and murals that our teams have recently brought to life to build community, encourage healing, and make justice a reality.

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Partners

Partners include the New York State Unified Court System, Bronx District Attorney’s Office, Criminal Justice Coordinator’s Office of the City of New York, the local defense bar, members of the Bronx community, and hundreds of local service providers and community groups.

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