Resources

GrassROOTS Community Foundation

GrassROOTS Community Foundation (GCF) is a training organization with an emphasis on public health and social action. We invest in our community members’ collective well-being, and teach them how to use their healthy energy to transform themselves, their families and communities

Transformative Justice: A Curriculum Guide

Project NIA kicked off a series of transformative justice-focused discussions, film screenings, an art exhibition, and other activities to raise public awareness about transformative justice and to think critically about the practice of mass incarceration.

Burnout Prevention Tools

This presentation, Burnout Mitigation: Stress Management for the Workday, by Kris Mereigh includes six evidence-based strategies for completing the Stress Response Cycle. Two other related tools: Burnout Prevention Workbook and book Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle.

2024 LiberateMKE Toolkit

This toolkit was created by the African American Roundtable (AART) for its partners and supporters who are interested in helping amplify the efforts of its 2024 LiberateMKE campaign.

In It Together: A Framework for Conflict Transformation In Movement-Building Groups

This toolkit provides a step-by-step diagnostic tool to assess conflict in movement-building organizations and groups and provides strategies, tools, and resources to transform that conflict.

Me Too Healing Room

This digital space features guided meditations, healing playlists, journaling, and activities to support you in your healing.

Mapping Community Ecosystems of Collective Care

This toolkit offers some resources, responses, and additional questions to consider for organizing around community-based approaches to building safer communities free from the violence of policing.

What’s Next: Safer and More Justice Communities Without Policing

This guide will empower you to begin building a police-free future in your community and provide you with some strategies for ensuring this.

Mental Wellness Resources for Black People

Black Space is a new organization normalizing therapy for Black and Brown people. They’re for us by us.

AART General Fundraising Toolkit

This toolkit was created by the African American Roundtable (AART) for its partners, influencers and supporters who are interested in helping amplify the organization’s fundraising efforts. 

AART General Participatory Budgeting Toolkit

This toolkit was created by the African American Roundtable (AART) for those who are interested in sharing information about the organization’s Participatory Budgeting Program or implementing a PB program in their community.

Abolitionist Strategy Binder

This binder includes organizing resources that cover basic principles of abolitionist strategy, as well as tips, guides, frameworks and lessons learned from organizing for prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition.

Let This Radicalize You: Reading & Discussion Guide

This is a practical and imaginative resource created by Rachael Zafer for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.

Let This Radicalize You Workbook

Created by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba, this workbook features resources, helpful books, essays, wisdom from veteran organizers.

Defund the Police – Invest in Community Care: A Guide to Alternative Mental Health Crisis Responses

The primary purpose of this guide by Interrupting Criminalization is to serve as a pragmatic tool for individuals and communities organizing and advocating for non-police mental health crisis responses, and to offer key considerations for what can be a complex, costly, and long-term intervention strategy.

Abolition and the State: A Discussion Tool

As movements to defund and divest from policing and invest in community safety expand, abolitionist organizers are increasingly grappling with questions around the role of the state in abolitionist futures. This Discussion Tool by Interrupting Criminalization helps readers move beyond existing analyses and frameworks.

In Our Own Hands: Tools for Talking Abolition & Transformative Justice with Little Ones

This guide was developed by artist, organizer, and social justice educator Rania El Mugammar and provides tools for starting conversations about policing, prisons and transformative justice with children, families and the broader community.

Building Your Abolitionist Toolbox

Here are some everyday resources for a punishment-free world from Interrupting Criminalization.

Don’t Take the Bait

We all deserve freedom, safety and protection, and this guidance from All in Wisconsin shows how to combat divisive language from the opposition.

ARPA/ Participatory Budgeting Toolkit

This toolkit was created by the African American Roundtable (AART) for its partners and supporters who are interested in helping amplify the efforts of its 2023 ARPA/ Participatory Budgeting campaign.

Improving Community Safety Through Public Health Strategies

This report offers early lessons and recommendations from work the Annie E. Casey Foundation is supporting in Atlanta and Milwaukee to prevent gun violence.

LiberateMKE Toolkit

This toolkit was created by the African American Roundtable (AART) for its partners and supporters who are interested in helping amplify the efforts of its 2021 LiberateMKE campaign.

Don’t Call the Police

Dontcallthepolice.com is an online directory of local resources available as alternatives to calling the police or 911. It was founded to provide easy access to alternatives to calling the police when faced with a situation that requires de-escalation or intervention, not violence.