Creaghan Harry, co-founder of Racial Justice Reform, Launches the My Godparents Program for Urban Youth.

The My Godparent program gives Black, Brown, White, and Latino urban youth the attention and guidance they need to stay alive and out of jail.

New York City, New York Jul 24, 2024 (Issuewire.com)  - Creaghan Harry, co-founder of Racial Justice Reform, has not always been one of America’s leaders in the fight for judicial equality. Long before writing the Amazon Law Top 10 National Bestselling Self-Help Books, “Busting the Feds at Their Own Dirty Game” and “Warrior’s Guide for Defendants,” Creaghan Harry was a college student volunteering for the Big Brother and Adopt-A-Grandparent programs in New York. These programs were great, but he knew they could be better. All his fellow college student volunteers eventually moved away and moved on in life, ending the relationship with the adoptee. He knew there had to be a better way.

When Creaghan Harry began financially sponsoring the children’s orphanage Children of the Sun (Niños del Sol) around 2016, he recruited volunteers from his own company with one unique requirement: they had to commit to the one child they were assigned to regardless of their employment with his company. He realized that these kids did not need any more loss. Niños Del Sol still runs successfully today with this requirement, and the 25+ children the orphanage takes in are all the better for it.

Since 2019, Creaghan Harry has dedicated himself to helping the poor and disenfranchised in the criminal justice system, who are primarily Black, Brown, and Latino. During this time, he realized that they have a very standard profile. Here is their basic profile: (1) They come from severe poverty (2) They have no father (dead, arrested, not around) (3) They started stealing food by age seven (4) They started delivering drugs by age ten for older dealers in order to get clothes and shoes that were not ragged (5) They were arrested by age 15 (6) They didn’t make it past middle school. Most are now just part of the criminal justice system, facing bigger and bigger sentences or getting shot or killed from inner-city violence.

When Creaghan Harry started volunteering at the Overtown Youth Center in Miami in 2017, the kids he worked with were 5-7 years old and were blank slates. They needed a father figure in their lives and they needed stability. Most had ragged clothes and shoes and had no one stable in their lives. They all took to him, but how to make it better? The My Godparents Program was his answer.

Using technology, he could recruit, background check, and assign suburban couples to be the godparents for each young Black, Brown, Latino or White poor or disenfranchised child. The godparents would all make a personal commitment to be there for that one child FOR LIFE. They would become the one consistent part of the life of each child. These children live in a murderous, war zone-like life that no child would wish for. Now, if the child gets into a fight in school, needs someone to be on a parent-teacher call, or just wants someone to care, they would have it. Some would get a birthday or Christmas present this year for a change, and others will get regular gifts of clothes and sneakers.

Using the soon-to-be-launched My Godparent App, tools for video calls, text chat, homework assistance, sending gifts to the children via Amazon, and much more are included. By the time the child is 10 years old and is about to move to the stage of selling or moving drugs, they will have at least two people who have been a consistent part of their life already for half a decade. Maybe they will even go and live in the suburbs and be taken out of the mess of a life and given some real opportunity. Only one child at a time will this problem be fixed.

Creaghan Harry is still currently sourcing a tablet manufacturer and a cell phone provider to be able to provide a free connected tablet for each child who does not have one. Additionally, volunteers are always needed.  Racial Justice Reform is a 100% volunteer organization. For more information or to volunteer at Racial Justice Reform, email: admin@racialjusticereform.com