Empowering Our Community
Our programs and services address social, economic, academic, and health inequities to reduce barriers of adversity.
Neighborhood Wellness Foundation
Navigating and Disrupting Intergenerational Trauma in Del Paso Heights and Surrounding Communities
Community Centered
Our services are expansive and constantly evolving to meet neighbors where they are. When people come to us with a need, we use all of our resources and connections to help.
Built on Trust
Empathetic
Building Healthier Communities One Neighbor at a Time
Built on a foundation of trust and understanding, our team addresses chronic toxic stress, legacies of incarceration, poverty, violence drug addition, and low educational attainment to improve lives and build resilience. Our programs and services focus on addressing the root cause of our disparities and finding pathways to improve and grow.
—Educational Training for Communities and Agencies—
Real Impact, Real Change
NW helps individuals break cycles of trauma by re-engaging communities in education, training, and employment. This provides economic stability and mobility for the community. We collaborate with agencies committed to building relationships, fostering self-awareness, and building community trust. Training becomes more than just an educational exercise; it catalyzes real impact and transformative change.
Bridging Community Expertise with Institutional Change
At NW, we believe relationship-building is the foundation of effective training. Before meaningful learning can occur, agencies must first establish trust, connection, and self-awareness. NW Healing Circles provide a structured yet compassionate space for professionals to recognize their own experiences with trauma and how these experiences shape their service delivery.
Our training goes beyond theory—it fosters genuine connection between providers and the communities they serve. By shifting from transactional service models to trauma-responsive, community-centered approaches, we help agencies build trust, improve outcomes, and create lasting change.
Training and Education for Agencies Serving Our Community – NW partners with a diverse range of institutions to help them recognize and address trauma—both in the communities they serve and within their own workforce:
• Law Enforcement – Training officers and cadets on trauma-informed policing, racial equity, and how unprocessed personal trauma can influence law enforcement interactions.
• Health Systems – Educating medical professionals on the impact of ACEs on both patients and providers, leading to better patient care and provider well-being.
• School Districts – Helping educators understand how their own childhood experiences shape their interactions with students, improving classroom management and student support.
• Faith-Based Organizations – Supporting religious leaders in addressing trauma within their congregations and strengthening their role in community healing.
• Criminal Justice System – Guiding probation officers, public defenders, and court officials in recognizing how personal and generational trauma influence sentencing, rehabilitation, and reentry.
Real Impact, Real Change
• Healing Beyond the Individual – By addressing personal trauma, professionals become more effective in serving vulnerable populations.
• Violence Mitigation & Mental Health – Healing Circles reduce community violence and increase access to support networks.
• Economic Mobility & Workforce Development – NW helps individuals re-engage in education, training, and employment by breaking cycles of trauma.
• Institutional Transformation – Our work leads to policy shifts and trauma-informed service models that create systemic change.
Impact Programs
Promoting healthier neighborhoods—socially, emotionally, physically, scholastically and economically.
We provide a safe space for our neighbors to understand how life experiences impact how brains grow in early childhood and how that affects the ability to envision choices. To appreciate how children and adults heal from childhood adversity, we need to understand how we live, how we cope with challenges and how stress affects us.
It’s Not What’s Wrong With Me
It’s What HAPPENED To Me
In 2022 we launched a School-Based Health Center (SBHC) at Grant High School, to improve the overall mental and physical health of students and community. We are working collaboratively with the staff and faculty to help build a school campus, a community where all feel welcomed, supported, and encouraged to thrive.
Low educational attainment and legacy of incarceration are interconnected and correlated to intergenerational trauma and poverty. We create an encouraging, empowering and welcoming place for students to learn and achieve. Our goal is to improve educational attainment through college matriculation and/or vocational education pursuits.
Restore Legacies is grounded in community restoration and provides a unique opportunity to break the legacy of incarceration and poverty. The goal is to disrupt intergenerational trauma and poverty by working with multiple family members for restorative justice, educational attainment, healing circles, vocational and workforce skill development and civic engagement. We have expanded our support to unhoused neighbors by providing food, clothing, Narcan, housing referral medical treatment and area clean up. 95838 is one of the highest areas impacted with fentanyl overdoses; we are providing harm reduction strategies including raising awareness, connectedness, healing circles, reversing overdoses and referrals to substance use disorder programs.