Cross Over

5411 Camellia Ave.
North Hollywood, CA 91601

Phone: 818.980.7714

Fax: 818.980.7702

Sr. Suzanne Jabro
Executive Director
Email: Suzanne@crjw.us
Ph: 818.980.7714

Sister Suzanne Jabro, CSJ, is the founder and executive director of the Center For Restorative Justice Works, a community-based non-profit organization that innovates gender-responsive solutions to the issues impacting women in prison and their families. The agency's flagship program, Get On The Bus, mobilizes grassroots communities throughout California to send more than 1,000 children of prisoners to visit their parents in prison for Mother's and Father's Days. She also serves as the Co-Convener of the Women and Criminal Justice NETWORK, a coalition of faith-based communities, service agencies and college chapters that advocate for human rights, personal development and re-entry opportunities for women in prison. Sr. Suzanne is a nationally recognized leader in the development and evolution of prison ministry. She led two Roman Catholic Diocesan Detention Ministry Departments, and built the Archdiocese of Los Angeles' program into the largest in the country. She also has more than 25 years of direct-service experience serving as a prison chaplain and co-director of a residential program for ex-offenders.

Jan Urban
Program Director
Email: janurban@roadrunner.com
Ph: 714.423.5802

Jan began serving the CRJW in September 2008 after attending a Network Core meeting.  Jan’s focus is grass roots organizing, inviting the faith communities that surround the women’s prison in Corona, CA, the California Institution for Women, CIW, to journey inside to be in conversation with the women inside.  She speaks to Church groups, plans invitations to and disseminates flyers for the monthly WOW Circles, the annual WOW Retreat, and special, day-long Cross-over events.  As liaison with the WOW Sponsor inside CIW, she works on visitor clearances and insures prison requirements are followed by the visitors.

Jan comes to the Cross-over Program from 10 years working as a volunteer Chaplain in the Woman’s Central Jail in Santa Ana, CA.  She also continues her 10 year commitment to community organizing with the California People of Faith Working Against the Death Penalty.  She earned her MA at the University of Wisconsin.

Gigi Breland
Assistant

Gigi Breland was born in Laurel Mississippi in 1958 and relocated to California in the late 1960’s. Currently I am working at the Center for Restorative Justice Works as an Assistant, working here I have learned so much, I am apart of something really wonderful and unique, working with people who have a true passion for helping others. I ask myself how could I not be apart of this experience. I too was incarcerated for twenty nine years while incarcerated I became involved with The Women of Wisdom (WOW) group and it changed my life. I knew then that I was a part of something really big and I have not been disappointed.