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Reimagining safety, together.
Just Communities Arizona works alongside under-resourced communities to build safety through connection, opportunity, and community-led solutions.
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Just Communities Arizona
Every community has immeasurable worth.
JCA supports the people creating safer, stronger, and more connected communities across Arizona.
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Just Communities Arizona
Every community has immeasurable worth.
JCA supports the people creating safer, stronger, and more connected communities across Arizona.
How JCA Creates Change
Community Safety Incubator Projects
Communities creating safety on their own terms.
Community Safety Incubator Projects provide small groups of neighbors with the resources and support to make their communities safer and more connected.
Arroyo Chico
Arroyo Chico transformed a walkway used by neighborhood children through a community cleanup, new planters, and a collaborative mural designed and painted with local residents.
Fairgrounds
The Fairground Project cleaned up neighborhood streets, added planters and a free book bank near the park, and hosted a fiesta with community resources and services.
Julia-Keen Native Pollinators
Through workshops at Midtown Farm, the Julia Keen Project taught residents how to care for native desert plants, distributed 100 pollinator plants, and hosted a community fiesta.
Our Impact
Just Communities Arizona is investing in the safety of those most harmed by the criminal punishment system. We support community members in working together to improve safety and wellness in their neighborhoods.
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Supporting Tucson neighborhoods through community-driven Incubator Projects
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Uplifting diverse voices within the communities we serve
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Expanding resources for community-based organizations in Maricopa County
JustReinvest
Justice Reinvestment
Funded through Proposition 207, Just Reinvest supports Maricopa County nonprofits working in areas such as behavioral health, restorative justice, jail diversion, workforce development, and the restoration of civil rights.
In 2026, JCA will award $1,000,000 in renewed and new grants.
FAQ
The highlights
We are an organization of abolitionists that affirms the inherent and undeniable dignity of every person and the immeasurable worth of every community.
We are creating new models for justice and safety outside of Arizona’s punishment system.
For decades, the conversation around community safety, meant surveillance, policing, and criminalization with arrest or incarceration as the go-to solutions.
But when affected communities are asked directly what makes them safe, they refer to things that exist entirely outside the criminal justice system: conditions that bring people together, build relationships and trust, attend to the needs of children and families, and support both physical and emotional health.
We serve those directly impacted by the punishment system: people with convictions, formerly incarcerated people, and their communities.
Community Voices
What does community safety look like?
I feel safer and more connected to my community.
It made the neighborhood feel more welcoming.
I got to meet new neighbors and connect.
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