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THE CROP FOUNDATION
"Innovations for Positive Social Change"

CROP’s Mission Statement

CROP exists to create and provide the methods and the means to improve efforts to rehabilitate prisoners, to improve and organize community reentry operations and support mechanisms, to reunify and strengthen families, and to break the cycles of generational failure through improved prevention and intervention operations in at-risk communities.

 

CROP’s Foundational and Operational Premises

CROP recognizes that many previous rehabilitation efforts have not been successful as evidenced by continuing and unacceptably high recidivism rates in many areas.  CROP believes that past programmatic failures are due, in part, to the lack of a sufficiently comprehensive program approach that addresses the needs of the whole individual.  CROP is dedicated to addressing and remediating the core causative factors that drive offender populations in addition to providing quality programs in education, substance abuse treatment, and in job training and placement.

CROP intends to build upon and enhance recent worthwhile prison reform efforts in California in relation to the Expert Review Panel Report, the passage of Assembly Bill 900, and the findings of the Governor’s Rehabilitation Strike Team.  CROP is developing strategic partnerships and alliances with a diverse group of individuals and organizations that can provide the support needed to bring about major improvements in rehabilitation, reentry, education, family reunification, and prevention and intervention.  A special emphasis will be placed upon developing efforts to more adequately address the issues relating to Disproportionate Minority Contact.

 

CROP’s Key Strategic Partners

Correctional Officials
CROP is partnering with, and offering support to, correctional officials all across America to assist in their efforts to improve rehabilitation and reentry practices and programs, and to reduce operational costs.  CROP’s innovative support efforts include a dynamic computer-based learning system, development of rehabilitation and reentry support coalitions, and cost-cutting programs for food service operations.

Legislative Leaders
CROP is working with elected officials and governmental agencies at the local, state, and federal levels of government in order to help develop reform policies and pilot projects that can improve program outcomes, improve systems operations, and reduce taxpayer costs.

Community and Faith-Based Organizations
CROP is developing partnerships with community and faith-based leaders and organizations in order to incorporate their invaluable assistance in providing support mechanisms, volunteers, capabilities for transformative programming, and for community-based reentry and prevention operations.

Business Community
CROP is working with the business and corporate communities to develop partnerships that can help provide resources to bring about significant change in addressing some of our society’s most pressing social issues and concerns.  Special emphasis is being placed upon developing employment opportunities that will aid in successful reentry efforts.

Private Foundations
CROP is working with private non-profit organizations to develop partnerships and to coordinate resources to support the types of efforts that will be needed to implement successful reforms on a large scale.