Broken Crayons Can Still Color is a trauma-informed nonprofit providing direct support to women, youth, and families impacted by incarceration, addiction, and abuse. We offer reentry services, healing-centered programs, and community education, while advocating for policy change to end cycles of harm. Rooted in lived experience, we help individuals rebuild their lives with dignity, support, and purpose.
Supported by Statistics
Over the past quarter century, there has been profound change in the involvement of women within the criminal justice system.
This is the result of more expansive law enforcement efforts, stiffer drug sentencing laws, and post-conviction barriers to reentry that uniquely affect women. The female incarcerated population stands over six times higher than in 1980. Over half (58%) of imprisoned women in state prisons have a child under the age of 18.
“Taking a mother out of the home shatters the entire foundation.”
Natasha White
Founder