Help our youth turn the pageMore than 70% of inmates in American prisons read at a fourth grade level or below.
Kids who are locked up are 12% less likely to graduate high school and 23% more likely to be re-incarcerated as adults.
According to the Department of Justice: "The link between academic failure and delinquency, violence, and crime is welded to reading.”
More than 70% of inmates in American prisons read at a fourth grade level or below. Kids who are locked up are 12% less likely to graduate high school and 23% more likely to be re-incarcerated as adults. According to the Department of Justice: "The link between academic failure and delinquency, violence, and crime is welded to reading.”
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Your support fuels a trauma-informed creative writing program that meets youth behind bars— and stays with them as they return home.
Every dollar helps us:
Provide weekly writing workshops in youth detention and reentry settings
Supply journals, books, and arts-based materials for creative expression
Bring in volunteer editors from The New York Times, WSJ, and Hearst to help students develop their stories
Publish student work in professionally edited zines and collections
Build pathways to literacy, communication skills, and community reintegration
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Opus 1 Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (EIN 84-4029712), serves as the fiscal sponsor for the Next PAGE program, providing fiduciary oversight and enabling tax-deductible contributions to the program.