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ANOTHER CHOICE YOUTH AND FAMILY OUTREACH

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ANOTHER CHOICE YOUTH AND FAMILY OUTREACH

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. 

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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. 

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CENTER FOR SOLUTIONS


The Center for Solutions is an initiative of Another Choice Youth and Family Outreach Inc. (ACYFO) in East Harlem, designed to serve as a hub for artistic expression, community empowerment, and strategic problem-solving. Rooted in the transformative power of Strategic Arts Engagement, the Center builds space—both physical and conceptual—for residents, artists, advocates, and leaders to collaborate on local solutions to systemic challenges such as poverty, mass incarceration, community violence, and health inequities.

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LOCAL AND NATIONAL ORGANIZING

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.

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Reconnecting, Reimagining, and Rebuilding Collective Power Through Art and Justice

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RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY

GALVANIZING AND MOBILIZING PEOPLE

BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS

In order to foster informed solutions in East Harlem to offset poverty and incarceration we conduct community- centered research with youth and adult participants. The information gathered is directly useful to impacted individuals, their communities, policy makers, academic institutions, nonprofits and beyond. 

BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS

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BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS

We form relationships to build our individual and collective capacity to be change agents.

ACYFO is a safe space for community members to seek direct and referral social-psychological support. We have ordained ministers and licensed social workers with lived-experience on call to support community members with mental wellness coaching, individualized mentorship, and referrals for mental health services. 

GALVANIZING AND MOBILIZING PEOPLE

GALVANIZING AND MOBILIZING PEOPLE

GALVANIZING AND MOBILIZING PEOPLE

We execute our mission by forming strategic collaborations enabling multi-dimensional advocacy and educational strategies. We believe that there is strength in numbers. In 2022 we brought community stakeholders together for community symposiums and discussions about fostering and implementing community-based solutions to promoting public safety and reducing  poverty in our communities.

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