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Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
www.acjs.org
The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences is an international association established in 1963 to foster professional and scholarly activities in the field of criminal justice. The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences promotes criminal justice education, research, and policy analysis within the discipline of criminal justice for both educators and practitioners.

American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
www.aahpm.org
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine is an organization of physicians and other medical professionals dedicated to excellence in and advancement of palliative medicine through prevention and relief of patient and family suffering by providing education and clinical practice standards, fostering research, facilitating personal and professional development, and by public policy advocacy.

American Correctional Health Services Association
www.achsa.org/index.cfm
The American Correctional Health Services Association mission is to be the voice of the correctional healthcare profession, and serve as an effective forum for communication addressing current issues and needs confronting correctional healthcare.

American Friends Service Committee
www.afsc.org
The American Friends Service Committee carries out service, development, social justice, and peace programs throughout the world. Founded by Quakers in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors with an opportunity to aid civilian war victims, AFSC's work attracts the support and partnership of people of many races, religions, and cultures.

American Probation and Parole Association
www.appa-net.org
T he American Probation and Parole Association is at the vanguard in exploring issues relevant to the field of community-based corrections. The American Probation and Parole Association provides training and technical assistance, clearinghouse services and advocacy.

Americans for Better Care of the Dying
www.abcd-caring.org
Americans for Better Care of the Dying is an organization dedicated to ensuring that all Americans can count on good end of life care. Our goals are to: build momentum for reform; explore new methods and systems for delivering care; shape public policy through evidence-based understanding.

American Society of Criminology
http://www.asc41.com/index.htm
The American Society of Criminology is an international organization whose members pursue scholarly, scientific, and professional knowledge concerning the measurement, etiology, consequences, prevention, control, and treatment of crime and delinquency. The Society's objectives are to encourage the exchange, in a multidisciplinary setting, of those engaged in research, teaching, and practice so as to foster criminological scholarship, and to serve as a forum for the dissemination of criminological knowledge.

Assisting Families of Inmates
www.afoi.org
The mission of Assisting Families of Inmates, Inc. is to help families preserve and strengthen positive relationships with relatives incarcerated in Virginia’s state correctional centers. Through a continuum of direct informational and support services, Assisting Families of Inmates helps families cope with the incarceration and prepare for release and reunification

Bereavement Academy
www.bereavementacademy.org
The Bereavement Academy is an affiliate of the Center for Hospice and Palliative Care in Buffalo, New York. The Institute's mission is to provide education and training for health care professionals, counseling professionals and the general public on topics related to palliative care, bereavement, serious illness, grief, loss and/or other subjects relevant to the field of thanatology.

Centerforce
www.centerforce.org
Centerforce provides services for prisoners, ex-prisoners, and family members of prisoners through direct services, its annual conference and, through consultation and training for government agencies, community-based organizations and correctional facilities across the country and internationally.

The Center for Crime Prevention and Control
http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/
The Center for Crime Prevention and Control fosters innovative crime reduction strategies through hands-on fieldwork, action research, and operational partnerships with law enforcement, communities, social service providers, and other practitioners. The Center is actively engaged in crime prevention initiatives in jurisdictions around the country and the world.

Center for Policy Alternatives
www.stateaction.org
The Center for Policy Alternatives is the nation's only nonpartisan nonprofit organization working to strengthen the capacity of state legislators to lead and achieve progressive change.

Dying Well
www.dyingwell.com/grace2001.htm
The publication of this Handbook for Improving End-of-Life Care in Corrections marks a period of remarkable achievement in efforts to establish prison hospice programs. Ironically, this progress comes at a time of unprecedented challenges confronting correctional systems and particularly correctional health care.

Engaged Zen Foundation
www.engaged-zen.org
The Engaged Zen Foundation is an independent organization originally founded to foster zazen (seated contemplative meditation) practice in prison. Meditative training alters the functioning of the mind of the practitioner and these changes manifest with the development of positive perspectives on life.

The Fortune Society
http://fortunesociety.org/
The Fortune Society is a nonprofit social service and advocacy organization, founded in 1967, whose mission is to support successful reentry from prison and promote alternatives to incarceration, thus strengthening the fabric of our communities. Fortune works to create a world where all who are incarcerated or formerly incarcerated can become positive, contributing members of society.

Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
www.hpna.org
The purpose of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association is to exchange information, experiences, and ideas; to promote understanding of the specialties of hospice and palliative nursing; and to study and promote hospice and palliative nursing research.

Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation
www.hpnf.org/default.asp
The Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation was incorporated in 1998 to support research and education for nurses and healthcare team members working in end-of-life care and to strive to meet the strategic goals of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association. We are committed to the belief that quality care for people with serious and advanced illness lies in evidence-based practice. The Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation is a source for funding and support to individuals and groups who want to increase their knowledge in end-of-life care and issues through research and education.

Hospice Foundation of America
www.hospicefoundation.org
Hospice Foundation of America provides leadership in the development and application of hospice and its philosophy of care with the goal of enhancing the American health care system and the role of hospice within it.

Hospice Patients Alliance
www.hospicepatients.org
The Hospice Patients Alliance was formed by experienced hospice staff and other health care professionals who saw that hospices were not always complying with the standards of care, and in fact, were in some cases, violating the rights of patients and families and exploiting them for financial gain, or not providing adequate care to control pain or other distressing symptoms during the end of life period.

Iowa Department of Corrections
www.doc.state.ia.us
The Department of Corrections is committed to advancing nationally recognized best practices in Iowa’s correctional system. Progress requires developing opportunities to improve operational, program, and staff efficiency and effectiveness. The Department's Strategic Plan advances important initiatives to provide better management of Iowa's offenders to reduce criminal victimization for a safer Iowa.

JFA Institute
http://www.jfa-associates.com
The JFA Institute team works in partnership with federal, state, and local government agencies, and philanthropic foundations to evaluate criminal justice practices and design research-based policy solutions. The Institute is a non-profit agency whose staff has over 30 years experience assisting jurisdictions around the country to implement more effective criminal justice policies.

National Board for Certification of Hospice and Palliative Nurses
www.nbchpn.org
The purpose of the National Board for Certification of Hospice and Palliative Nurses is to promote delivery of comprehensive palliative nursing care through the certification of qualified hospice and palliative nurses.

National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
www.nhpco.org
The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization is the largest nonprofit membership organization representing hospice and palliative care programs and professionals in the United States. The organization is committed to improving end of life care and expanding access to hospice care with the goal of profoundly enhancing quality of life for people dying in America and their loved ones.

National Institute of Corrections
www.nicic.org
Providing federal, state, and local corrections agencies with training, technical assistance, information services, and policy/program development assistance.

National Prison Hospice Association
www.npha.org
The National Prison Hospice Association promotes hospice care for terminally ill prisoners. Our purpose is to assist corrections and hospice professionals in their continuing efforts to develop high quality patient care procedures and management programs. We provide a network for the exchange of information between corrections facilities, community hospices, and other concerned agencies about existing programs, best practices, and new developments in the prison hospice field.

Open Society Institute
http://www.soros.org/
The Open Society Institute, a private operating and grantmaking foundation, aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. On a local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to support the rule of law, education, public health, and independent media. At the same time, OSI works to build alliances across borders and continents on issues such as combating corruption and rights abuses.

Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog
http://www.pallimed.org/
Their target audience is the professionals working in hospice & palliative medicine, as well as patients, families and other medical professionals outside of this field. Their goal is to review current palliative medicine, hospice, end-of-life research with a particular focus on publications not from the major palliative care journals. They also highlight important events in end-of-life care from the news media and entertainment arenas. Pallimed is not intended to replace the patient-physician relationship.

Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC)
http://www.prisonactivist.org
PARC is a prison abolitionist group committed to exposing and challenging all forms of institutionalized racism, sexism, able-ism, heterosexism, and classism, specifically within the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC). PARC believes in building strategies and tactics that build safety in our communities without reliance on the police or the PIC. We produce a directory that is free to prisoners upon request, and seek to work in solidarity with prisoners, ex-prisoners, their friends and families. We also work with teachers and activists on many prison issues.

The Real Cost of Prisons Project
http://realcostofprisons.org
The Real Cost of Prisons Project seeks to broaden and deepen the organizing capacity of prison/justice activists working to end mass incarceration. The Real Cost of Prisons Project brings together justice activists, artists, justice policy researchers and people directly experiencing the impact of mass incarceration to create popular education materials and other resources which explore the immediate and long-term costs of incarceration on the individual, her/his family, community and the nation.

Sentencing Project
www.sentencingproject.org
The Sentencing Project is an organization which promotes reduced reliance on incarceration and increased use of more effective and humane alternatives to deal with crime. It is a nationally recognized source of criminal justice policy analysis, data, and program information. Its reports, publications, and staff are relied upon by the public, policymakers and the media.

Urban Institute
www.urban.org
In the mid-1960s, President Johnson saw the need for independent nonpartisan analysis of the problems facing America's cities and their residents. The President created a blue-ribbon commission of civic leaders who recommended chartering a center to do that work. In 1968, the Urban Institute became that center.

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