• JustUs – Rising Ground – Diversion program for LGBTQ+ and GNC youth in the justice system, offering holistic support and stipends.
• Recess Assembly Art - Diversion program for young folks including TGNC + Queer System Impacted Young people (18-26 y/o) facing houselessness, felonies, misdemeanors, mental health mandates, and open immigration cases. 

• Recess Assembly Art - Diversion program for young folks including TGNC + Queer System Impacted Young people (18-26 y/o) facing houselessness, felonies, misdemeanors, mental health mandates, and open immigration cases. 
  
• New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) — Offers free legal services on housing, public benefits, family law, immigration, employment, and LGBTQ+ legal issues for low-income New Yorkers.
  
• Sylvia Rivera Law Project – Free legal services for low-income TGNC individuals, including ID changes, name/gender marker updates, immigration, and incarceration support.
• Emergency Release Fund: Provides bail assistance for transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people held in New York City jails and ICE detention while advocating for an end to cash bail and immigration detention.
• Brooklyn Community Bail Fund — Posts bail for New Yorkers who cannot afford it while organizing to end pretrial detention and cash bail. The organization also supports community-led efforts to reduce incarceration and invest in alternatives to policing.
  
• NYC LGBT Health & Human Services Network – Connects queer youth to over 60+ service providers across NYC.
• Audre Lorde Project – Grassroots organizing, peer support, and TGNC youth empowerment for LGBTQ+ people of color.
• Legal Aid Society LGBTQ+ Law Unit – Legal representation for name and gender marker changes, housing, benefits, and discrimination cases.
• TLC Name Change Project: Step-by-step guidance and legal clinic connections to support trans and nonbinary New Yorkers with court-ordered name and gender marker changes 
• National Bail Out Collective: Supports Black people impacted by incarceration through community bailouts, organizing, and resources that address the harms of pretrial detention and the criminal legal system.

Support Groups: 

• NYC Books Through Bars — A volunteer-run collective that sends free books, educational materials, and resources to incarcerated people nationwide, supporting self-education, literacy, and intellectual freedom.
• Brooklyn Jail Support — A volunteer-led mutual aid collective that welcomes people released from Brooklyn jails with food, MetroCards, clothing, emotional support, transportation assistance, and connections to community resources. 
• Bronx Jail Support — Provides direct support to people leaving the Bronx criminal legal system through transportation, meals, clothing, care packages, and referrals to housing, healthcare, and social services.
• Queens Court Support & Jail Support — A community-led network of mostly queer and trans organizers providing court accompaniment, jail support, transportation, mutual aid, and resource navigation for people impacted by the criminal legal system in Queens.

Alternatives to using the Police: 

• Fireweed Collective: Offers free mental health education, peer support resources, crisis, mutual aid, and collective care.
• Interrupting Criminalization: Develops practical resources that help communities respond to conflict and crisis without relying on policing, jails, or surveillance. Their toolkits include de-escalation strategies, safety planning, and transformative justice practices. 
• Creative Interventions Toolkit: A free step-by-step guide for responding to interpersonal violence, abuse, and conflict through community accountability and transformative justice, without involving police. 
• Project NIA: Shares resources, curricula, and practical tools for ending youth incarceration while building community-based approaches to safety, accountability, and healing. 
• Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (BATJC) Resources:  A widely used collection of transformative justice guides, accountability processes, facilitation tools, and survivor-centered resources that can be adapted by communities everywhere. 
• The Audre Lorde Project – Safe OUTside the System (SOS) Collective — A community safety initiative that supports LGBTQIA+, Two-Spirit, and gender nonconforming communities in building neighborhood safety practices without relying on policing through organizing, training, and collective action. 
• TransformHarm.org: A free online library of transformative justice, restorative justice, consent, conflict resolution, and community accountability resources from organizers around the world.