The Atlanta Bailout
The Inspiration
Starting At The Drawing Board
Starting At The Drawing Board
The Atlanta Father's Day Bailout was inspired by the film 13th by Ava Duvernay and documentary Slavery By Another Name. The mass incarceration of people of color began shortly after the end of chattel slavery and has continued until today.
Starting At The Drawing Board
Starting At The Drawing Board
Starting At The Drawing Board
DCMO Executive Director Monique James (R) and Atlanta Municipal Court Judge Terrinee L. Gundy (L) worked together to create a system where Father's Day Bailout participants could be released on Signature Bonds in a group for the first time in Atlanta's history.
Help From Law Enforcement
Starting At The Drawing Board
Help From Law Enforcement
During Atlanta's first Father's Day Bailout in 2017, we could not have succeeded with out the help of the Atlanta Public Defenders department and the Atlanta Department of Corrections.
The Release
Families Are Reunited
Help From Law Enforcement
Help us build our communities by releasing parents jailed for "Quality of Life" charges such as jaywalking, not having a license present, asking for a cigarette or just being homeless.
The Life Changer
Families Are Reunited
Families Are Reunited
Through our Kaleidoscope Project, we provide emotional, physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being training. It begins with our 3-day and 2-night Survival Empowerment Retreat.
Families Are Reunited
Families Are Reunited
Families Are Reunited
In the end with the Atlanta Bailout, parents are brought back to their children. Those individuals can be home with their families instead of spending tax payers dollars housed in a jail cell.
Working Cooperatively With...
The Gateway Center
Atlanta Municipal Court
The Gateway Center
- The Gateway Center, located in Atlanta Georgia, strives to make homelessness, rare, brief through strategic and innovative programs and services as part of our collective impact model. Gateway has consistently provided housing, job training, connection to services like Mercy Care and so much more for Bailout participants. Gateway's staff
- The Gateway Center, located in Atlanta Georgia, strives to make homelessness, rare, brief through strategic and innovative programs and services as part of our collective impact model. Gateway has consistently provided housing, job training, connection to services like Mercy Care and so much more for Bailout participants. Gateway's staff has given the Bailout participants the care and attention they need to reach self-sufficiency.
Hosea Helps
Atlanta Municipal Court
The Gateway Center
Hosea identifies families and individuals that are at risk of slipping into poverty or that are living in poverty, and then mobilizes financial resources, products and volunteers to solve their problems and stabilize those households. Hosea volunteers have provided holistic support to the bailout participants, from haircuts upon release to family starter kits for each person released.
Atlanta Municipal Court
Atlanta Municipal Court
Atlanta Municipal Court
The Atlanta Bailout is successful in large part due to the cooperation of the Atlanta Municipal. Judge Terrinee L. Gundy lead the charge to release the first Father's Day Bailout participant in 2017 on Signature Bond. She has been a faithful supporter of the people released and their families. As a result of the Signature Bonds, Judge Gun
The Atlanta Bailout is successful in large part due to the cooperation of the Atlanta Municipal. Judge Terrinee L. Gundy lead the charge to release the first Father's Day Bailout participant in 2017 on Signature Bond. She has been a faithful supporter of the people released and their families. As a result of the Signature Bonds, Judge Gundy orchestrated the change in bail policies in the Municipal Court and later the City of Atlanta.