New Community Outreach creates restorative spaces for healing, reconciliation and flourishing.
About Us
We are a community based, non-profit organization committed to Bronzeville’s youth and community. We collaborate with residents and organizations on the South Side of Chicago to provide programs, host events and respond to community-identified opportunities.
We envision a Bronzeville where youth and other community members meet trauma with restorative justice in order to renew the relationships (with ourselves, our neighbors, and our environments) which lead to our individual and collective flourishing.
Our commitment to restorative justice drives the work of our organization. Born out of the ministry of New Community Covenant Church, we lead restorative justice programming utilizing the circle process for high school students at Bronzeville high schools, maintain a community garden in order to provide fresh produce to our neighbors, and organizes & hosts a community-wide back-to-school fair, among other neighborhood initiatives.
Our work depends on trusted partnerships with neighborhood residents, community organizations, and schools in the greater Bronzeville community; we are intentional to allow space to be responsive to the needs of our community as they rise.
Everything we do is shaped by our values.
Sankofa
We build on the foundation of our community’s history.
Healing-Centered
We ground our practices in the understanding that holistic restoration from trauma occurs collectively in community and always with abundance (of strengths, skills, talents, interests, and competencies) as a starting point.
Reconciliation
We confront violence, segregation, and racism as harms opposed to flourishing.
Justice
We fight the root causes of inequity and poverty in pursuit of peace.
Youth
We focus our efforts on uncovering opportunities and exposing challenges facing young people.
Collaboration
We learn from, work with, and support our community partners.
Receptivity
We assess and adapt our programs to maximize effectiveness.
Hope
We orient our attitudes and efforts toward a hopeful future.