As President and CEO of Amity Foundation, Doug Bond leads all facets of the organization, overseeing dozens of contracts in California and Arizona, including four residential campuses serving over 500 people with histories of criminal justice system involvement, addiction, and homelessness per day. Under his direction, Amity is now developing 300 units of permanent housing and over 200 more beds for residential services.
Bond has been instrumental in expanding Amity’s California services, which have increased from serving 2,000 to over 35,00 people each year. He has helped to ensure that men and women with lived experience have the same opportunities he has been given. Bond has also served on the design and management team for the Just In Reach (JIR) jail project funded through the Department of Health Services which works to serve some of the most at risk for recidivism and homelessness.
Bond first went to Amity in 1983 after being in several foster homes and was reunited with his father who had been incarcerated. His father and sister spent two years at Amity, and he was one of the first children to be allowed to reunite with his father while going through a reentry program. Bond’s mother, Betty Garcia, also went to Amity after her release from prison in 1986 and later went on to help open the first in-prison therapeutic community in California at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility. Bond reunited with his mother almost twenty years later when he went to Amity as a student in need of services. He has lost several of his family members due to the opioid crisis in America and he received custody of his then eight-year-old niece after his sister’s overdose. His family experience with incarceration, addiction, poverty, and violence has driven his commitment to creating safe teaching and therapeutic environments for men, women, and children.
Bond is the chair of Executive Committee of the Los Angeles Regional Reentry Partnership (LARRP) and sits on the boards of the World Federation of Therapeutic Communities (WFTC), Treatment Communities of America (TCA), the California Association of Alcohol and Drug Program Executives (CAAPDE), CASA Los Angeles, and Episcopal Community Services.
