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December 30, 2017
Police commissioner: BPD making strides
The mayor’s relationship with philanthropist and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other local leaders is bringing Roca and several long-overdue…
From: The Baltimore Sun
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December 22, 2017
Veronica Award Winner – Roca Youth Worker Alycia Gay
Roca has had unparalleled success altering the life trajectories of America’s most high-risk young people – the young people that are involved in crime, engaged in…
From: The Superstar Foundation
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December 17, 2017
Roca, Anti-Violence Youth Program On Its Way to Baltimore
Mayor Catherine Pugh has worked overtime to find $17 million in funding to bring Roca, a Massachusetts-based anti-violence youth intervention program to Baltimore. This…
From: AFRO
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December 15, 2017
Molly Baldwin’s Statement at Baltimore Mayor Pugh’s Press Conference
Thank you, Mayor Pugh and the City of Baltimore, for your remarkable generosity, due diligence into our work, and your incredible commitment to help…
From: Roca
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December 14, 2017
Anti-violence program to target high-risk youth in Baltimore
A new anti-violence program will focus on helping high-risk young men in Baltimore without relying on the criminal justice system. News outlets report that Mayor…
From: The AP
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December 13, 2017
Mayor Catherine Pugh Brings Anti-Violence Program to Baltimore
Mayor Catherine Pugh announced today that the City of Baltimore would be partnering with Roca—an anti-violence, nonprofit program based in Massachusetts…
From: Baltimore Magazine
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December 13, 2017
Mayor Pugh Announces Plans to Implement Roca in Baltimore, Disrupt Cycles of Poverty and Incarceration Through Program Focused on High-Risk Youth
Mayor Catherine E. Pugh announced today a $17 million public-private partnership with Roca, anchor business institutions and philanthropic organizations to…
From: City of Baltimore
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December 13, 2017
Greater Baltimore Committee raises $6.5M for city anti-crime program
The Greater Baltimore Committee raised $6.5 million to help Baltimore launch the Roca program, an anti-crime program successful in Massachusetts. GBC member…
From: Baltimore Business Journal
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December 13, 2017
Youth Anti-Violence Program Coming To Baltimore
A new youth violence prevention program could be a game changer in Baltimore City. Roca was announced Wednesday with fanfare at City Hall amid a wave of…
From: CBS Baltimore
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December 13, 2017
Anti-violence program Roca, funded by private donors, coming to Baltimore, Mayor Pugh says
Mayor Catherine Pugh said Wednesday that an anti-violence program that focuses on the most troubled teenage boys and…
From: The Baltimore Sun
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November 2, 2017
18-year-olds can barely rent cars. Are they old enough for jail?
In February of 2012, just a few months after his 18th birthday, Daniel Almodovar got high and, with his stepbrother, made a terrible decision: The two of them attempted a…
From: The Boston Globe
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October 26, 2017
OP-ED by Molly Baldwin and Gregg Croteau: Criminal justice bill can be game changer for young adults
The Commonwealth’s criminal justice reform efforts offer a unique opportunity to achieve a triple impact: improve public safety, reduce public spending on crime prevention, and redefine futures for our…
From: Commonwealth Magazine
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October 18, 2017
Roca, Harvard, DOJ Release a Report on a Model to Reduce Young People’s Crime
The report outlines Roca’s intervention model – a first-of-its-kind intervention, and the only community corrections model in the country that focuses exclusively on high-risk…
From: Roca, the Harvard Kennedy School Executive Session on Community Corrections, and the National Institute of Justice
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October 10, 2017
Trading gangs and guns for a future
Hakeem Jackson doesn’t mince words. “Just a couple of years ago I was shooting at people,” he says. A wiry 20-year-old with an affable bearing, Jackson is sitting at the…
From: CommonWealth Magazine
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October 5, 2017
The Business of Changing Lives – Allison Weiner, 2017 Farber Intern
I had the privilege of working this summer at Roca, a Massachusetts-based organization that for 30 years has worked to break the cycle of…
From: REDF Farber Blog Series
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September 29, 2017
When Crime Data Becomes Politicized
Thomas Abt, a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law School, discusses how politicking gets in the way of implementing workable solutions…
From: On The Media, WNYC
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September 20, 2017
Chelsea, MA named 2017 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize Winner
To begin to understand Chelsea, Massachusetts, take a drive from the McArdle Bridge down Marginal Street, past…
From: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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July 9, 2017
In Chelsea, coalition aims to save lives on verge of unraveling
Nicole Castro was someone who could have slipped through the cracks. Homeless, destitute, and addicted to heroin and other drugs, she…
From: The Boston Globe
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July 3, 2017
Keeping Your Eye on the Long Term in a World of Short-term Pressures
Roca was featured alongside Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com as leaders who think about the long term and are committed to taking intelligent risks in order to meet high standards…
From: The Drucker Institute
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June 28, 2017
Non-profit Roca celebrates Somerville’s Detective James Slattery
Community law enforcement is always changing — as police develop new techniques and strategies, they’ve found that sometimes the most innovative ways are also the most…
From: Wicked Local Somerville
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June 26, 2017
‘Pay-for-success’ proves a boon to social services
A group of investors has made a big bet — not on a company, but on a local nonprofit…
From: The Boston Globe
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June 20, 2017
19-year-olds don’t belong in adult prisons
Governor Baker introduced a criminal justice bill in February to great fanfare. Designed to give prisoners incarcerated on mandatory minimum sentences access to good-time credit to hasten their release and to provide reentry programming, it received…
From: The Boston Globe
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June 16, 2017
Seen@ Roca Springfield’s 7th anniversary of service celebration at CityStage
Roca, the leading Massachusetts nonprofit dedicated to improving the lives of the highest-risk young people and disrupting the cycle of incarceration and poverty, recently celebrated the 7th anniversary of the opening of its…
From: MassLive and The Republican
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June 12, 2017
Roca founder Molly Baldwin to visit Springfield to celebrate anniversary of local chapter
Molly Baldwin, the founder and chief executive officer for Roca, is scheduled to be in Springfield Wednesday night for a celebration of…
From: MassLive
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June 7, 2017
Raise the Age
Much has been written about the important campaign to raise the age of juvenile court jurisdiction to include 18-, 19-, and 20-year-olds. There are four bills filed by…
From: Jean Trounstine
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June 5, 2017
Roca Testimony- Raise the Age
Roca testified at the Massachusetts State House before the Joint Commission on the Judiciary on supporting legislation to raise the age of the juvenile court jurisdiction to include 18,19, and 20 year olds.
From: Roca
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June 5, 2017
Bill Seeks Mass. Delinquency Raise From 18 to 21
Proposals have been offered in Massachusetts to raise the age limit for young people to have their criminal cases heard in juvenile court.
From: NECN
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June 1, 2017
Roca celebrates year’s accomplishments at annual breakfast
Roca’s annual breakfast welcomed a packed house of local official and supporters at the Intercontinental Hotel, including Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey; Glenn E. Martin…
From: Chelsea Record
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May 31, 2017
Grant Makers, Put Results First in Deciding How to Give
In New York City, the social-service organization BRC saw its shelter clients rapidly returning to homelessness because they could not keep up with rising rental costs. So BRC decided to…
From: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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April 23, 2017
Roca Springfield working to help ex-convicts see a life beyond jail
At the risk of sounding cliched, Daniel Almodovar-Vazquez said he is turning his life around. After spending his teens going between…
From: MassLive
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April 18, 2017
Pay-for-Success in Action
Preventing recidivism among formerly incarcerated youth is a difficult challenge, but pay-for-success approaches like this one are beginning…
From: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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March 30, 2017
Why Are We Stalking You? To Keep You Out of Jail
Watch Roca Founder and CEO Molly Baldwin’s TED talk at TEDxPennsylvaniaAvenue.
From: TedX Talks
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March 17, 2017
An Evening of Inspired Leaders
Roca Founder & CEO, Molly Baldwin and Roca Young Mother, Linette Nieves perform poetry with Mass Poetry.
From: Mass Poetry
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March 16, 2017
Roca’s Work in The Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — Tykeam Jackson’s mellow voice and warm smile give little hint of how the 21-year-old spent his youth: in and out of juvenile detention and jails, leading…
From: The Associated Press
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March 2, 2017
Roca on News Channel 5
New initiatives aimed to help young people from Central America
From: WCVB5
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February 28, 2017
Accounting for Violence
How to Increase Safety and Break Our Failed Reliance on Mass Incarceration
From: The Vera Institute of Justice
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February 17, 2017
Roca CEO Speaks in Washington, D.C. about Organization
Molly Baldwin, founder and CEO of Chelsea-based Roca Inc. delivered a powerful talk Thursday, Feb. 9, at TEDxPennsylvaniaAvenue, sharing the story of Roca and how relentless…
From: Chelsea Record
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February 10, 2017
Why are We Stalking You? To Keep You Out of Jail – Tedx Talk
Molly presented a talk about Roca at the Tedx Pennsylvania Avenue 2017. Read the transcript here.
From: Roca
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February 8, 2017
Op-Ed: Think outside box to deal with young adult criminals
Massachusetts has long been recognized as a leader in juvenile justice reform for youth who commit crimes prior to age 18…
From: Boston Herald
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February 6, 2017
Massachusetts lawmakers to consider raising court age from 18 to 21
A bill that would raise the age for the juvenile court system one year at a time for the next three years was sponsored by State Sens…
From: MassLive
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