Project NIA is a community based organization focused on ending youth incarceration and building alternatives to the criminal legal system. The organization develops educational resources, research, advocacy campaigns, and community programs that support restorative justice, transformative justice, abolitionist organizing, and violence prevention.
The website offers toolkits, reports, curricula, reading lists, workshops, and public education materials for people working to reduce reliance on policing, prisons, detention, and punishment based systems. Its resources are especially useful for educators, organizers, youth advocates, social workers, community groups, and anyone seeking practical frameworks for addressing harm without expanding the carceral state.
Project NIA emphasizes community accountability, youth empowerment, and long term systemic change. Its work helps communities explore responses to harm that prioritize safety, healing, prevention, and accountability rather than criminalization. The organization also provides accessible materials that explain abolitionist principles and connect them to real world organizing.
For the Resistance Directory, Project NIA is a strong resource for people researching prison abolition, juvenile justice reform, restorative justice, transformative justice, and community based responses to harm.
Key Features
- Provides toolkits and curricula on abolition and restorative justice.
- Shares resources on youth incarceration and juvenile justice.
- Offers educational materials for organizers, educators, and advocates.
- Supports community based alternatives to policing and prisons.
- Publishes reports, zines, reading lists, and campaign resources.
- Centers youth empowerment, prevention, healing, and accountability.