by Douglas Keillor | Mar 30, 2017 | News
Our first “Know Your Rights” workshop with juveniles and family members at the CERSAI juvenile detention center in Ciudad Juárez… Saturday, March 18th we were very excited to begin our “Know Your Rights” workshop, in collaboration with...
by Douglas Keillor | Mar 15, 2017 | News
By Olivia Meneses Coordinator of the Mobilize Volunteers Project This is the second time we have completed Family Reunification in Chihuahua. This time I coordinated it remotely from Mexico City, but I would still like to share some of the stories of families and...
by Douglas Keillor | Feb 28, 2017 | News
This past weekend, we started our monthly “Family Reunification” project for children in prison in Chihuahua state. Olivia Meneses, our project director, worked with the prison´s list of four teenagers who have not had visitors for months. They all live at least three...
by Douglas Keillor | Jan 25, 2017 | News
Last Saturday, January 14th, I went to the juvenile detention center (CERSAI) # 3, in Ciudad Juárez to deliver donated Care Packages. It is part of our Mobilize Mexico Volunteers project to help meet the needs of teens in the juvenile justice system who are detained....
by Douglas Keillor | Sep 21, 2016 | News
Part 4: Two boys, one seeing his mother for the first time in 11 months, one seeing his mother for the last time Olivia and Amanda returned from Chihuahua state on Monday after three very busy days with our Family Reunification Project – helping families...
by Douglas Keillor | Sep 16, 2016 | News
Part 3: Normalizing the Trauma and Dehumanizing Kids Our Family Reunification Project and the “Every Child Has a Story” documentary heads out this weekend to Chihuahua state. The goal is to help families who cannot afford to visit their children in prison get...
In Honduras, we celebrated Mother’s Day Over the past several weeks, thanks to the generosity of our Restore the… Read more: A Mother’s Day of Hope in Honduras
This month, our community advanced juvenile justice reform efforts across Latin America and supported families with children deprived of… Read more: April 2026 Update
Strengthening family bonds in Honduras and Costa Rica through family reunification, family committees, and coordinated justice reform efforts.
We are working to break that cycle. In Central America, families whose children end up in the juvenile justice… Read more: In Central America, the juvenile justice system keeps punishing the same families.
In Costa Rica and Honduras, on paper, families have the right to visit their children in juvenile detention. But… Read more: This Mother’s Day, you can restore the bond between a family and a child.
Our Mobilize & Empower (M&E) project mobilizes communities to protect children in prison and empowers youth and families directly… Read more: November 2025 Newsletter