Our Mission

Neighborhood Safety Advocates mission is to build capacity in the community to reduce our nation's reliance on incarceration and out of home placements and keeping young people and families and neighborhoods safe.

NSA works in close partnership with local government agencies, nonprofit organizations, credible messengers, young people and families, to design, build and operate neighborhood-based programs and supports that strengthen communities and support youth and families to reach their full potential.

NSA brings veteran community practitioners and people with lived experience together with local community coalitions to create new and innovative solutions to child abuse and neglect, neighborhood crime, supporting people with mental illness, or disabilities, citizens returning from prison, human trafficking, unemployment and other issues effecting safety in neighborhoods.

In lieu of traditional responses to these critical issues, such as detention, prison, out of home residential placements, hospitalization, NSA looks to work locally to build upon the strengths of neighborhoods, local nonprofits, existing stakeholders to create new approaches that are safe and effective.

NSA's Board of Directors and cadre of guides and organizers bring hundreds of years of lived experience and careers reforming child welfare, juvenile and criminal justice systems, behavioral health systems and work force programs together with neighborhood stakeholders. NSA goal is to build upon the experience of local stakeholders; government officials, local grass roots nonprofit organizations, police, local community advocates and citizens that are most impacted by the lack of safety in communities.

NSA can support the efforts of communities to create new approaches that are tailored to the unique situations of each jurisdiction.

Services Offered:

Consultation and technical assistance to develop robust community-based continuum of care for:

• Alternatives to youth and adult detention
• Alternatives to youth and adult prisons
• Alternatives to out-of-home placements
• Youth and adult reentry services
• Neighborhood Anti violence programs

Direct services;

• When necessary to fill gaps NSA is willing and able to provide direct services