What We Do
CM3 provides a credible messenger mentoring model, training curricula, capacity building, technical assistance, and ongoing support to community-based organizations and their government partners in communities seeking to implement and advance credible messenger work
BUILDING AN UNDERSTANDING
CM3 provides consultation, training, technical assistance, and support to national, statewide, and local stakeholders interested in advancing credible messenger work.
BUILDING THE MODEL
CM3 collaborates with community and government partners to implement local credible messenger mentoring programs with fidelity to the CM3 model and centered on individual, community, and systemic transformation.
BUILDING A MOVEMENT
CM3 facilitates a national Learning Community that serves as a platform for networking, organizing, knowledge building, and advocacy for the advancement of credible messenger work.
Theory of Transformation
To help interrupt the destructive impact of the criminal justice system on black, brown, and marginalized communities and advance fairness, equity, and restoration in the administration of justice, sustained investment in those communities is required. Such an investment should focus on the recruitment, development, and empowerment of Credible Messengers to have transformative influence and impact in their communities and throughout the entire continuum of the justice system – including policing, court processes, community supervision, incarceration, and re-entry.
“Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
Meet the TEAM behind
the Credible Messenger Mentoring Movement
President & CEO
Credible Messenger Mentoring Movement – CM3
Clinton Lacey is the president and CEO of the Credible Messenger Mentoring Movement (CM3), a newly launched organization focusing on supporting Credible Messenger Mentors – community rooted natural leaders who have successfully navigated their own prior involvement in the justice system, who share similar life experiences with current justice-involved young people, and are poised to have transformative impact on an individual, family, community and systemic level – and maximizing their impact around the nation.
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Before joining DYRS, Clinton was appointed to the New York City Department of Probation as the Deputy Commissioner for adult operations in 2011. In this capacity, he was responsible for the oversight of a division that supervised approximately 24,000 clients on probation and led a series of innovative initiatives, including the Neighborhood Opportunity Networks (NeONs) and Arches Transformative Mentoring (the first iteration of Credible Messenger Mentoring).
Other positions held by Lacey over his 30-year career include project manager with the W. Haywood Burns Institute, addressing racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in several jurisdictions around the nation (2005-2010); director of the Youth Justice Program at Vera Institute of Justice, where he led an initiative to build collaborative relationships between community-based youth advocates and system based juvenile justice officials from various jurisdictions around the nation (2004-2005); and associate executive director of Friends of Island Academy, where developed services for 16 to 24-year-olds at Riker’s Island in New York City (1992 – 2004).
Clinton is an experienced trainer, facilitator, writer, and keynote speaker on such issues as racial disparity, comprehensive re-entry services, gang/power group intervention strategies, and overall youth development. In addition, he has studied justice systems and provided trainings around the nation, as well as in Puerto Rico, Brazil, Barbados, Norway, and Finland.
He has a B.A. in Latin American and Caribbean History from Herbert H. Lehman College (City University of New York) and is a graduate of the Institute for Not-for-Profit Management at Columbia University. Clinton is married, and the father of two sons and a daughter and has one granddaughter.
Brandon Fontenot Johnson
VP Strategic Initiatives & Chief of Staff
Credible Messenger Mentoring Movement – CM3
James Hartman
Chief Financial Officer
Credible Messenger Mentoring Movement – CM3
Mosi Deterville-Makori
Chief Program Officer
Credible Messenger Mentoring Movement – CM3