Mission

The Center for Resilient Individuals, Families and Communities (CRIFC) is committed to the sustainability of healthier communities across the southern region and beyond by employing abolitionist tactics centering folks and their families directly impacted by mass incarceration. Our programming involves social services stabilization for the collective change makers of local, regional and national abolitionist movements, direct action, community organizing apprenticeships and political education, reading circles for children and youth, seasonal micro grants, emergency funds, social services referral, and creating/re-envisioning community services networks. The extension of our mission is to educate, support and organize individuals, families and communities, local, nationally, and internationally around best practices, best tactics, innovative service methods, and social policies which govern the lives we live.

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History and Vision

The Center for Resilient Individuals, Families and Communities (CRIFC) was born in 2017 as a kindred organization of Southerner’s On New Ground, who works for a sustainable South that embodies the best of its freedom traditions and works towards the transformation of our economic, social, spiritual, and political relationships. We, CRIFC, employ tactics to change the course of generations. We work to shift the hearts and minds of communities, get policy wins, build base, and open up possibilities for long-term engagement in communities and systems change by the very people that are being pushed out of them.

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