Who We Are
The Center for Community Alternatives was founded in 1981 with the belief that the solution to crime rests in communities, not imprisonment. Our mission is to promote reintegrative justice and a reduced reliance on incarceration through advocacy, services, and public policy development in pursuit of civil and human rights. Recognizing the devastating impact of incarceration on low-income communities and communities of color, CCA was one of the first community-based alternative-to-incarceration programs in the State of New York. Since then, CCA has grown into a statewide organization widely recognized for its principled stance on criminal justice reform, and for its high-impact programs for justice-involved youth and adults.
What We Do
The Center for Community Alternatives (CCA) was founded in the belief that solutions to poverty, addiction, and violence rest in communities, not incarceration. Over the past 40 years, CCA has grown into a statewide organization widely recognized for its principled stance on criminal justice reform and its high-impact programs for justice-involved people. Today, we work for restorative justice and an end to mass criminalization and mass incarceration.
