Mission of CRIFC:
The Center for Resilient Individuals, Families and Communities (CRIFC) is committed to the sustainability of
healthier communities across the southern region by employing abolitionist tactics centering folks and
their families directly impacted by mass incarceration. Our programming involves social services
stabilization for the collective change makers of local, regional and national abolitionist movements,...
direct action, community organizing apprenticeships and political education, reading circles for children and
youth, seasonal micro grants, emergency funds, social services referral, and creating/re-envisioning
community services networks. The extension of our mission is to educate, support and organize
individuals, families and communities, local, nationally, and internationally around best practices, best
tactics, innovative service methods, and social policies which govern the lives we live.
History and Vision:
The Center for Resilient Individuals, Families and Communities (CRIFC) was born in 2017 as a
kindred organization of Southerner’s On New Ground, who works for a sustainable South that embodies
the best of its freedom traditions and works towards the transformation of our economic, social,
spiritual, and political relationships. We, CRIFC, employ tactics to change the course of generations. We work
to shift the hearts and minds of communities, get policy wins, build base, and open up possibilities for
long-term engagement in communities and systems change by the very people that are being pushed out of
them.