Here you’ll find our collection of Project Avary videos from throughout the years. By watching these videos, you’ll receive an up-close look at our program, and you will learn directly from the children about how parental incarceration has impacted their lives and how Project Avary has supported them through this experience. Sit back, watch, and enjoy!

Who We Are:

This is us—in our truest essence.

Camp Avary:

The camp videos showcase the heart and soul of our Bay Area Leadership Program. Watch as the children, alumni and staff share their camp experience and how much the program means to them.

Avary Online:

This video showcases the transformational power of our national online program, Avary Online. By watching this video, you’ll witness just how possible it is to create meaningful community in an online space and will see firsthand what a pivotal step this program is for breaking generational cycles of incarceration on a national scale.

Independence of Love:

Learn about Project Avary's pioneering work inside California Prisons. Watch as the teen leadership group, the "Peacemakers", leads restorative justice parenting workshops that guide incarcerated parents as they build relationships with their own children.

How It All Began:

Watch to learn about Project Avary's history and how we got started.

Avary Voices:

Avary Voices is a video series, sharing stories and personal reflections of youth in the Avary Community.

Praise and Acclaim:

Watch a video testimony about Project Avary's impact from Piper Kerman, prison reform advocate and best-selling author of Orange is the New Black.

Preview Invisible Bars, a Documentary Film Featuring Project Avary:

For over a year, Bay Area filmmaker John Beck has followed several Project Avary youth and the evolving challenges we face in our program to show on a very intimate level the effects of mass incarceration on the American family. The documentary film takes viewers behind bars to show the ongoing generational cycle of incarceration and shines a light on the children and families left behind, looking for the answer to the question: How do we break the generational cycle of incarceration?