Our Mission
WPA is a
service and advocacy organization committed
to helping women with criminal justice
histories realize new possibilities for
themselves and their families. Our
program services make it possible for
women to obtain work, housing, and health
care; to rebuild their families; and
to participate fully in civic life. Through
the Institute on Women & Criminal
Justice, WPA pursues a rigorous policy,
advocacy, and research agenda to bring
new perspectives to public debates on
women and criminal justice.
Our Program Services
WPA provides
direct assistance to approximately 2500
women and their families each year. We
offer an integrated continuum of services to criminal justice-involved
women in response to five key areas of
need: livelihood, housing, family, health
and well-being, and criminal justice
compliance.
Our programs are based in jail and prisons,
as well as in the community. We
help women at different stages of involvement
with the criminal justice system address
their current needs and plan for their
futures.
WPA programs address each client’s
individual needs and strengths, dealing
with the client as a whole person. We
stress self-reliance through the development
of independent living skills; self-empowerment
and peer support; and client involvement
in the community. All of our programs
are designed to reduce the use of incarceration
and to help criminal justice-involved
women make decisions that support, strengthen
and enrich their own lives, and those
of their family members.
The Institute on Women & Criminal
Justice
The Institute on Women & Criminal Justice is a national center for policy analysis, research, and information about criminal justice-involved women, their families and communities. By fostering a national conversation on women and criminal justice, the Institute works to create breakthroughs in the ways in which our public systems address the issue of women and crime. We actively promote innovative solutions and highlight what works.
The Institute focuses the attention of policymakers, media, and the public on the issues of crime, women and families. We add gender to the criminal justice conversations on sentencing, corrections, and reentry, and focus attention on the role of other public systems in the lives of criminal justice-involved women and their families. The Institute promotes the development of more effective approaches to dealing with women in the criminal justice system, reducing reliance on prisons and shifting toward greater investment in communities.
Download WPA's Form 990 for the year ending September 30, 2006.
