Safer streets start with brothers who show up.
Brothers Organizing Safe Streets empowers youth, rebuilds lives, and breaks the cycle of incarceration through education, mentorship, and lived-experience curricula.
Education. Mentorship. Re-entry. Real tools for people the system has overlooked.
Empowering youth. Rebuilding lives. Breaking the cycle.
We assist marginalized communities and at-risk youth with the tools, education, and mentorship to handle life’s challenges, avoid the justice system, and return to society successfully. Through our partnership with Greenwood Publishing, we teach with curricula built from lived experience that builds personal growth, accountability, and long-term success.
Guiding at-risk youth
Young adults learn the real-world consequences of criminal behavior so they can make informed, positive choices.
Gang abatement and re-entry
Cognitive-behavioral tools help people leave destructive cycles and build legal, self-governing futures.
Reducing recidivism
Resources for employment, mental health, education, and community support after release.
A mission shaped by lived experience
Our curricula come from Gregory Greenwood, author and publisher at Greenwood Publishing. Sentenced as a teenager to Life Without Parole at Mississippi’s Parchman prison farm, he turned his circumstances into a testimony of faith, hope, and internal freedom, and now writes the textbooks and workbooks that anchor our programs.
That is the standard we hold ourselves to: accountability with empathy, and a clear path forward.
Free yourself from within.
Calvin Greenwood, co-founder
Programs built on proven curricula
Understanding the Consequences of Criminal Activity
The Mississippi Edition. A textbook showing at-risk youth the legal, social, and economic impact of criminal behavior.
Unchained: A Guide to Gang Abatement
A 30-lesson, three-phase program (Deconstruction, Execution, Sustainability) that moves participants from "Passenger" to "Architect" of their own lives.
10 Keys to Overcoming Recidivism
Practical strategies for education, employment, mental health, and community support after release.
Books and curricula
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Understanding the Consequences of Criminal Activity
Mississippi Edition, textbook
Educates at-risk youth and young adults on the long-term cost of criminal choices.
Unchained: A Guide to Gang Abatement
Textbook
Psychological analysis and evidence-based protocols to dismantle a high-risk identity.
Unchained: Facilitator's Guide
Facilitator’s guide
For leaders, mentors, and clinicians running the 30-lesson curriculum.
Unchained: Your Personal Journey Journal
30-day workbook
Audit risks, build safety plans, and set SMART goals.
10 Keys to Overcoming Recidivism
Textbook
Strategies for ex-offenders and reentry programs to break the cycle of reoffending.
Love Locked Away
Revised edition, memoir
A true story of Parchman, poetry, and self-discovery. A testimony of freedom.
Get involved
Bring a program to your group
Schools, churches, reentry groups, and correctional facilities can use our curricula.
Mentor a young person
Share your time and experience with someone who needs a steady brother in their corner.
Partner with us
Sponsors and organizations help us reach more communities.
Help us reach one more young person
Your gift pays for books, mentors, and program materials. Every dollar goes toward breaking the cycle.
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