Newark Community Street Team

What Newark Community Street Team does

Newark Community Street Team (NCST) is a community-owned nonprofit organization founded in 2015 in Newark, New Jersey, that operates as the city's primary community-based violence intervention strategy. NCST deploys trained outreach workers, high-risk interventionists, and case managers to serve at-risk youth and young adults (ages 14-30), violent crime survivors, and Newark residents, with operational focus on the South and West Wards and service extension into Essex and Hudson counties. The organization runs eleven interconnected programs spanning crisis response, prevention, and healing: High Risk Intervention (HRI), Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program (HVIP) embedded in University Hospital Trauma Center and Newark Beth Israel, Trauma Recovery Center (TRC), Overdose Response Team (ORT) co-responding with University Hospital EMS, Safe Passage at contracted schools, Victim Services Department, Sentinel Leadership Academy, Public Safety Round Table, Assertive Outreach, Community Walks, and Survivors Group. All outreach workers hold Professional Community Intervention Training Institute-International certification, and many are non-traditional community leaders with prior incarceration or drug-trade backgrounds, applying a public health, trauma-informed methodology. The case management model maintains caseloads of 5-7 individuals per worker.

NCST's business model is a hybrid of grant-funded, contract-funded, and donation-supported revenue. Primary revenue streams include the VOCA Victim Assistance Grant Program (since 2017, currently under renewal risk following October 2025 rejection), foundation funding from Ford Foundation and The Pershing Square Foundation, school Safe Passage contracts through Newark Board of Education, hospital partnership contracts with University Hospital and Newark Beth Israel, individual memberships at $20-$80/year, and direct donations. NCST does not operate a technology platform; its core delivery assets are trained personnel, institutional partnerships (Rutgers Newark Law Fellows, NJ Crime Victims' Law Center, Newark Jobs Connect, Department of Health and Community Wellness), and community legitimacy built through resident ownership and transparent governance. UCLA's Social Justice Research Partnership conducted a three-year independent evaluation recommending NCST as a national best practice, and the organization has been credited with supporting a 50%+ reduction in Newark homicides over the past decade.

Name

Newark Community Street Team

Legal name

Newark Community Street Team

Website

https://newarkcommunitystreetteam.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Newark Community Street Team is a community-owned nonprofit founded in 2015 that delivers violence intervention, victim services, and trauma recovery programs to at-risk youth, crime survivors, and Newark residents through trained outreach workers and hospital and school partnerships.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Newark

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Government Grants: NCST received VOCA (Victim Assistance Grant Program) funding since 2017. The organization partners with government agencies for victim services. The City of Newark passed an ordinance to reallocate 5% of the police budget to a new Office of Violence Prevention.
2. Foundation/Philanthropic Funding: NCST has received support from the Ford Foundation. The organization is backed by foundations supporting community-based violence intervention initiatives.
3. Donations: NCST accepts donations through PayPal and DonorPerfect. The organization states they need 'cold, hard, cash to pay our outreach workers what they deserve.' EIN: 82-1719128.
4. Membership Fees: NCST offers paid membership tiers including Individual ($30/year), Family ($80/year), Student ($20/year), and Staff membership ($30/year after first free year). Members receive digital cards, merchandise, voting rights, and newsletters.
5. Service Contracts: NCST provides Safe Passage at contracted schools. Staff are all paid (not volunteers), so schools or organizations must have a grant or contract to fund services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Newark Community Street Team (NCST) is a community-based violence intervention organization that deploys trained outreach workers and high-risk interventionists to reduce violent crime in Newark. It operates interconnected programs including crisis response (HRI, HVIP, Overdose Response Team), prevention (Safe Passage, Sentinel Leadership Academy), and healing/trauma recovery (Trauma Recovery Center, Victim Services, Survivors Group). Services are delivered directly to at-risk youth, crime survivors, and residents in Newark's South and West Wards.

Product overview

Newark Community Street Team (NCST) is a community-based violence intervention organization operating as a single, unified suite of interconnected programs rather than a platform-with-modules architecture. NCST's core consists of eleven distinct programs: High Risk Intervention, Victim Services Department, Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program (HVIP), Safe Passage, Trauma Recovery Center (TRC), Overdose Response Team (ORT), Sentinel Leadership Academy, Public Safety Round Table, Assertive Outreach, Community Walks, and Survivors Group. These programs are coordinated through a central organizational structure, share Outreach Workers and High Risk Interventionists, and operate in partnership with University Hospital, Rutgers Newark Law Fellows, the Department of Health and Community Wellness, the New Jersey Crime Victims' Law Center, and Newark Jobs Connect. Together they form a public health approach to reducing violent crime and murder in the City of Newark, addressing the full continuum from crisis response (HRI, HVIP, ORT) to prevention (Safe Passage, Sentinel Leadership Academy) to healing (TRC, Victim Services, Survivors Group).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Trauma Recovery Center (TRC): A nationally acclaimed model designed to help victims of violent crime overcome barriers to accessing mental health treatment, health care, and legal resources in the acute aftermath of trauma.
• Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program (HVIP)
• Overdose Response Team (ORT)
• Sentinel Leadership Academy
• Public Safety Round Table
• Safe Passage

Products and services

• High-Risk Intervention (HRI)

Quantifiable outcome

• Homicides reduced by over 50% in the past decade
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• University HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNCST partners with University Hospital for multiple programs: Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program (HVIP) where outreach workers are embedded in the Level 1 Trauma Center; Overdose Response Team where two outreach workers co-respond to overdose calls with University Hospital EMS twice a week; follow-up services to address health and social needs of individuals.
• Department of Health and Community WellnesscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for wellness support providing participants with access to confidential wellness evaluation and therapeutic counseling services.
• Rutgers University Newark Law FellowscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership provides free legal services to outreach workers and participants to address barriers to employment and self-sufficiency. Law students provide legal support as part of the wraparound services.
• New Jersey Crime Victims' Law CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership facilitates the Victims Compensation Fund application process for mentees and survivors of crimes and connects them to support services.
• Newark Jobs ConnectcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership provides priority referral and job training opportunities for NCST participants through employment and education referrals.
• UCLA Social Justice Research PartnershipcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUCLA conducted a three-year evaluation (March 2017 to January 2020) documenting NCST's origins, development, successful implementation, and evolution from pilot project to national model. Oversees NCST's Institutional Review Board.
• Crime Survivors for Safety and JusticeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNCST staff receive frequent trainings from this organization as part of ongoing professional development for public safety professionals.
• Alliance for Safety and JusticeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNCST staff receive frequent trainings from this organization as part of ongoing professional development.
• Community Based Public Safety CollectiveminorGTM or Marketing PartnerDonors can designate CBPS as the donation recipient through NCST's PayPal donation process. Organizations are related through shared mission of community-based public safety.
• Professional Community Intervention Training Institute-InternationalcoreTechnology or IntegrationElite professional certification organization that trains all NCST outreach workers. Provides the foundational training for NCST's trauma-informed violence intervention methodology.
• Newark Police DepartmentminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNCST receives information from law enforcement for intervention purposes but does NOT share information with law enforcement. They accept referrals of people in need of casework. Relationship has improved over time.
• Safer Newark CouncilminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNCST has access to crime data through partnership with Safer Newark Council for systematic evaluation of outcomes.
• Newark Beth IsraelcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNCST provides victim services at Newark Beth Israel in addition to University Hospital. Services include VCCO assistance, advocacy, court accompaniment, and mental health referrals.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Market position

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/NCST_newark
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@ncst_newark
• Facebookfacebook.com/newarkcst
• Instagraminstagram.com/ncst_newark
• TikToktiktok.com/@ncst_newark
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/newark-community-street-team

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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