ANOTHER CHOICE YOUTH AND FAMILY OUTREACH
ANOTHER CHOICE YOUTH AND FAMILY OUTREACH
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OUR MISSION
Another Choice Youth and Family Outreach, (ACYFO) is an East Harlem based nonprofit organization dedicated to providing access to supportive services for local youth, families, seniors and especially citizens returning from incarceration. We use strategic arts engagement as a tool to engage the East Harlem community to disrupt violence, and promote public safety.
In addition to providing professional development and artistic literacy courses, we operate a food pantry program to address food insecurity in our community. We take a holistic approach to facilitating referrals and service delivery, ensuring that community members have access to a diverse catalog of local resources.
OUR VISION
We believe that the fight for social change will end at the intersection of criticizing and enacting social change with clear collective action. We are asking for your support as we “Reclaim the 2nd Floor Space” by creating the ACYFO Theater and Center for Solutions. Your donation will help us to execute our community engagement strategy to utilize the transformative power of strategic arts engagement to address and offset the often-interlacing dilemmas of poverty, domestic violence, re-entry, and recidivism.
HOW WE ADVOCATE
Our coalition seeks to advance alternative to incarceration (ATI) possibilities by positioning the arts as a necessary tool in prevention, pre-trial, supervised release, and post-conviction sentencing options by utilizing trauma-informed arts practices to inform public safety strategies and to center the humanity of individuals who are system-impacted.