Who We Help
The Be a Coffee Bean Foundation aims to help individuals who may have been negatively impacted by the current criminal justice system through disadvantages within their community. We address criminal justice reform by targeting generational incarceration through the children of incarcerated parents because kids do not get to pick their parents.
This is a critical intervention in the lives of those who are the most at-risk populations to have future negative interactions with the criminal justice system. We view it as both humanitarian and a public safety issue.
Our current criminal justice system can be very unforgiving, especially to disadvantaged communities. The effects of the criminal justice system can be traumatizing to not only the currently or previously incarcerated persons, but to entire generations and communities. Research has shown that children of incarcerated parents are more likely to also become incarcerated.