This impact program is recognized by the Sacramento District Attorney’s Office as an alternative to incarceration. Adult participants attend education and training sessions twice weekly and Healing Circles once weekly. Youth participants are provided with ongoing mentorship. We create healthy learning spaces and engage them in educational field trips and outdoor activities to improve educational engagement that will result in diploma achievement, pathways to college, or sustainable vocational careers by lowering barriers of adversity that undermine learning. We are creating a new culture of mental health wellness, self-efficacy, and socio-emotional intelligence.

Our program includes support for unhoused neighbors.  We support these neighbors through food, clothing, Narcan, housing referral medical treatment and area clean up. Our goal is the reduce the incident of overdoes through harm reduction strategies including community awareness, connectedness, healing circles, reversing overdoses  and referrals to substance use disorder program. 

NW is part of the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS), please follow this link for HMIS Privacy Statements which outline the minimum safety standards that our community has set for how client Personal Private Information is collected, used, and protected.