Collaborative Partnerships

Collaborative Partnerships

Invite the broader McCormick community and neighboring academic institutions and community-based organizations to share in the work of SBI as co-laborers. We offer a variety of opportunities for engagement that range from volunteering, collaborating, sponsoring, learning, advocating.

 

Student-Led Partnerships

Emerging leaders in undergraduate and graduate programs are invited to consider SBI as a site for community based learning. In collaboration with the SBI team and the broader community, graduate and undergraduate students are invited to identify, develop and lead an SBI project that resonates with their professional and vocational call and SBI’s mission and vision.

Meet our Student Collaborators

Broad-Based Partnerships 

It will take all of us to change the tide and usher in a new world where jails and prisons are outdated institutions and practices for achieving so-called justice. We partner with local grassroots organizations, academic institutions, community based organizations and individuals committed to creating a beloved community for those who have been impacted by the criminal punishment system.  

The webinar series Isolation in Perspectives, annual publication The Prayer Collective, Teach-in “Know Your Rights as a Juror are examples of partnerships forged within the McCormick network and beyond that have inspired and activated our community to deepen their commitments of solidarity with those impacted by the criminal legal system. 

Let us together activate our radical imagination and dream into existence, a  partnership that moves us towards a world were love, accountability and repair are normalized response to healing harms.

For more information contact jjohnson@mccormick.edu.

“My pen pal changed forever the pre-conceived perceptions I had held about incarcerated people, however well-intended. Even while confined in jail – he makes sacrifices for his family.

He is a decorated combat veteran who suffers from PTSD and laments the lack of mental health resources for veterans. His dream for his life after being released is to work for or start his own organization to help and support people like him, veterans and others suffering from PTSD, and those who have been incarcerated to live more full and meaningful lives.

I am different for our correspondence, I pray for him and his family, and I pray for the courage and strength to stay involved in the work to change the system and honor him and what he has taught me.”

— Letter-Writing Companion