Newark Community Street Team

The Newark Community Street Team (NCST) was founded by Mayor Ras J. Baraka’s as the City’s community-based violence reduction strategy. NCST draws upon an evidence-based, trauma informed approach to violence reduction. NCST hires, trains and deploys Outreach workers and High Risk Interventionist in the South Ward and West Wards of Newark to:

• Provide casework to those at greatest risk of becoming a victim or a perpetrator of violence
• Engage in high-risk intervention, both mediating on-going disputes that may result in violence and preventing retaliation.
• Offer Safe Passage at contracted schools
• Provide support to crime survivors who are overlooked by traditional victim services agencies.