ABOUT BREAKING CHAINS MAKING AMENDS
Breaking Chains Making Amends (BCMA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing educational scholarships for children and grandchildren of both the incarcerated individual behind prison walls and the victim of the crime. The foundation also provides a mentoring component to pre and post incarceration. Additionally, BCMA has a prison ministry team that goes into prisons and conduct Spiritual Encounters.
About
Established to help eliminate the overwhelming statistics of generational incarceration:
1
million children in the U.S. have an incarcerated parent. That is 1 in 28 children
1
%
of these kids are doomed to follow in the same footsteps as their parents becoming imprisoned at some point in their lives.
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more likely than their peers to commit crimes.
BCMA gives hope by providing the opportunity of a higher education or trade by offering a scholarship. This vision also gives hope to the incarcerated by providing a mentoring concept as well as an opportunity to connect to their spirituality.
MAKE AMENDS TO FAMILIES OF CRIME VICTIMS and their own families
Break the generational cycle of crime
PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS TO CRIME VICTIMS and descendants of the currently incarcerated
PROVIDE MENTORING TO those CURRENTLY and formerly INCARCERATED
PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES to the currently incarcerated TO EXPLORE THEIR SPIRITUALITY
BREAKING CHAINS
The chains of crime can be broken by providing the children and grandchildren of those currently incarcerated an education; an opportunity they may otherwise not have. The statistics indicate that 70% of all incarcerated persons children will follow in their footsteps and become a victim of incarceration themselves.
MAKING AMENDS
Donations to the scholarship by currently or formerly incarcerated individuals can assist them to make amends to their families and crime victim by helping make the opportunity of an education possible to the children and grandchildren.
LEADERSHIP
BCMA SPOTLIGHT
Read stories about how BCMA has impacted and changed the lives of children of the incarcerated and helped rehabilitate the formerly incarcerated.
DONATE
Invest to give hope to both the children and grandchildren of the incarcerated and crime victims by providing the opportunity of a higher education or trade.