Get On The Bus a program of the Center for Restorative Justice Works

We believe that children have the right to see, touch, and speak face-to-face with incarcerated parents. The Get On The Bus program provides free bus transportation and specialized family visits so that low-income children and their incarcerated parents can engage in bonding family activities, including sharing meals and playing games together. We also provide access to art therapists, mental health staff and other resources to help families heal.

Get On The Bus would like to expand our pilot Camp Suzanne restorative justice summer camp program for children and their incarcerated parents taking place inside prison walls. This weeklong camp was successfully piloted during the summer of 2015 for 12 children and their mothers at the Federal Correctional Institution-Dublin Facility. Our goal is to offer the camp to a greater number of children and add a much-needed art therapy component.