Accomplishments

EJUSA provides nationally acclaimed training and leadership development, boots-on-the-ground support, and strategic assistance to state and local organizations working to provide healing-centered services to survivors of violence, create trauma-informed approaches to public safety and violence prevention, and to end the death penalty.

Healing Justice

  • Helped secure more than $4 million in federal funding for 12 grassroots community organizations supporting crime survivors in communities of color
  • Increased funding for victims healing services in two states, using funds saved from repealing the death penalty
  • Supported 26 grassroots crime survivor-healing organizations to become stronger and expand their reach
  • Organized a White House roundtable on trauma, race, and violence
  • Hosted a national convening on Trauma for more than 20 grassroots leaders impacted by trauma across the justice system—including crime survivors, formerly incarcerated people, families of the incarcerated, and law enforcement
  • Co-led a groundbreaking, two-year dialogue to find common ground between criminal justice and victim assistance advocates, resulting in the report Bridging the Divide
  • Supported coalitions that successfully expanded health-based violence intervention programs in two states

Trauma-Informed Policing

  • Designed a one-of-its-kind trauma training, From Trauma to Trust: Police Community Collaborative Training
  • Trained over 500 police officers and community members, including nearly 20% of the Newark Police Department
  • Secured law enforcement policy changes in Newark, NJ, that removed barriers for victims seeking compensation and created the police department’s first LGBTQ policy
  • Educated police departments in six cities on trauma and police/community relationships in communities of color

Death Penalty

  • Ended the death penalty in nine states together with state partners
  • Launched the nation’s only conservative anti-death penalty group, Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty, in 2013, with local branches in 14 states
  • Generated thousands of media stories about the death penalty’s failures, including features in the New York Times, the Washington Post, MSNBC, Fox News, Harper’s Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Daily Caller, and many more
  • Founded the EJUSA Evangelical Network in 2011
  • Built coalitions of family members of murder victims, law enforcement, and other key stakeholders in more than half a dozen states
  • Organized hundreds of thousands of people to speak out against dozens of executions
  • Trained dozens of organizers and advocates on strategy and communications to strengthen repeal campaigns in dozens of states