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Peaceprints of WNY

Strengthening Communities by Rebuilding Lives 660 Smith Street
Bufflalo, NY 14210
716.856.6131

06/23/2026

Gioacchino first connected with Peaceprints while incarcerated at the Erie County Correctional Facility, where he met his Transition Coordinator Kenny and asked for help addressing homelessness, substance use, and the patterns Gioacchino recognized had been keeping him stuck.

After his release, things were not easy right away. Gioacchino found himself without stable housing and still struggling with addiction. But when he was ready to take the next step, he reached back out to Kenny.

Kenny met him where he was, brought him into the Peaceprints office, and helped him connect with treatment. Gioacchino completed 46 days at First Step, graduated from the 28-day program, and has since continued his recovery journey at Cazenovia Manor for longer-term treatment.

He continues to keep in touch with Kenny and share his progress.

In Gioacchino’s words: “Thank you Kenny for your guidance and help and helping me grow as an individual in my journey of recovery and my life and becoming the better version of myself. This program works and helps become a better you.”

Congratulations, Gioacchino! Your honesty, persistence, and willingness to keep going are worth celebrating. We are grateful to walk alongside you.

06/22/2026

Peaceprints is hiring!

We currently have several opportunities available across four position types, with some roles filling more than one opening. If you are looking for meaningful work rooted in reentry, youth support, housing, community care, and second chances, we would love to hear from you.

Our team works alongside justice-impacted adults, young people, families, and community members as they build stability, reconnect with support, and move toward their goals.

We are looking for people who are compassionate, dependable, mission-driven, and ready to be part of work that matters in Western New York.

View current openings and apply here:
https://www.peaceprintswny.org/get-involved/job-opportunities

06/21/2026

Happy Father’s Day from Peaceprints!

Today, we celebrate fathers in all the ways families know them: dads, stepdads, grandfathers, uncles, mentors, chosen family, and the father figures who show up with love, guidance, protection, patience, and care.

We also hold close the fathers who are spending today separated from their children and loved ones. For many families impacted by incarceration, Father’s Day can carry both love and grief, pride and pain, hope and distance.

To every father working to heal, rebuild, reconnect, provide, and show up better than the day before: we see you and we celebrate you.

06/20/2026

Earlier this week we handed our social media over to our Empower Youth client Lundyn to introduce herself. Today, we're giving the microphone to another one of our standouts, Delley!

My name is Delley, I’m a 12th grade high school student and I’m 18 years old. Some of my hobbies are playing the game and eating good food. What Empower Youth did for me was help me get a job through the YEP program and help me get my drivers permit by helping setting up my appointments at the DMV.

06/19/2026

Happy Juneteenth from all of us at Peaceprints!

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas were finally freed, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

Today is a celebration of freedom, culture, family, joy, music, food, history, and community. It is a day to honor the strength, brilliance, creativity, and resilience of Black communities, and to celebrate the generations who carried hope forward even when freedom was delayed, denied, or incomplete.

Juneteenth also reminds us that justice delayed is still justice denied. It carries the weight of promises deferred and truth withheld, but it also carries something even more powerful: the proof that resilience, courage, and community can move us closer to liberation.

At Peaceprints, this day is deeply connected to our values. We believe in compassion because healing requires us to tell the truth about harm. We believe in courage because building a more just and equitable future means confronting the systems that continue to separate families, criminalize poverty, and deny second chances. We believe in community because liberation has never been the work of one person alone. We believe in commitment because freedom is not a single day in history. It is work we keep doing.

Today, we celebrate how far we have come as a nation. We honor the joy, power, and legacy of Black communities. And we recommit ourselves to the work still ahead.

06/18/2026

Peaceprints’ administration and community programs office at 1001 E. Delavan Ave. will close at noon on Thursday, June 18 so we can come together as an agency in celebration of Juneteenth.

Clients needing emergency support should contact their assigned case manager.
We will reopen for business as usual on Monday, June 22 at 8:00 AM. At that time, we will respond to non-emergency inquiries sent to [email protected], our Erie County voicemail box at 716.449.5450, and our Niagara County voicemail box at 716.365.9747.

Thank you, and Happy Juneteenth!

06/17/2026

Transportation can be one of the biggest barriers between someone and their next opportunity.

That is why we are so grateful for our partners at Wheels for Workers 716 who provide fully restored bicycles, new locks, and helmets to help working and job-seeking clients get where they need to go.

Last week, our client Brandon met the program requirements and picked up his bike. In his words: “Thank you for everything Peaceprints does and all the help they give. Small things like this make it possible.”

But that is the thing. Sometimes what looks like a “small thing” is actually the thing that makes work, appointments, stability, and independence more possible.

Congratulations, Brandon, and thank you to Wheels for Workers for helping our clients keep moving forward.

06/16/2026

We’ve celebrated Pride this month, but June is also PTSD Awareness Month, and it serves as a reminder that trauma does not belong to one story.

Many people first think of PTSD in the context of combat veterans, but PTSD is not unique to military service. It is also deeply relevant to people impacted by the criminal legal system, including people who have survived childhood trauma, community violence, s*xual harm, grief, poverty, incarceration, and repeated exposure to crisis.

When we ignore trauma, we misunderstand behavior. When we punish trauma without treating it, we deepen the harm.

That is why trauma-informed care matters in reentry work. Healing is not separate from public safety. It is part of it.

06/15/2026

We love the chance to shine the spotlight our clients and offer a peak at what makes them so special, but don't take our word for it-- we asked some of our Empower Youth clients to introduce themselves in their own words! From here, we're going to let Lundyn run the show.

My name is Lundyn and I am in 11th grade. My favorite hobby is doing drill and going out with my friends. The Empower Youth program has helped me by getting me a job here at Peaceprints, helping me focus on school and get my grades up.

06/14/2026

Pride is a celebration. It is also a reminder that LGBTQ+ justice and criminal justice reform are deeply connected.

LGBTQ+ young people are drastically overrepresented among youth experiencing homelessness and youth involved in the juvenile justice system. LGBTQ+ youth make up only about 5–7% of the overall youth population, but an estimated 40% of youth experiencing homelessness and 20% of youth in the juvenile justice system.

That does not happen by accident.

For too many q***r and trans young people, the path into the legal system starts with rejection. Being kicked out. Running from abuse. Sleeping somewhere unsafe. Missing school. Needing food, transportation, hygiene products, or a place to stay.

When young people are forced to survive without stable housing or support, they may turn to criminalized behaviors like s*x work, selling drugs, or stealing to meet basic needs. That drastically increases their risk of arrest, detention, exploitation, and deeper system involvement.

This is sometimes called the “survival pipeline”: the path from rejection and homelessness to poverty, criminalization, court involvement, and incarceration. The risks are even more pronounced for q***r youth of color, who are also navigating racism, over-policing, and unequal access to safety and support.

LGBTQ+ youth do not need more punishment. They need housing. They need affirming adults. They need mental health support, education, food, transportation, and community-based services that meet them before survival becomes a charge.

Address

1001 East Delavan Avenue
Buffalo, NY
14215

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

Telephone

+17168566131

Website

http://www.peaceprintswny.org/

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