Right now, someone you know is embattled in a conflict they don't have the skills to resolve alone. A friend is fighting with a neighbor over a parking space or the trash. A loved one is facing the devastating choice of dropping out of school to pay the bills. A family member could be struggling to decide between a bad and worse job. Right now, you know someone who needs NYCID’s help.
Communicating effectively through conflict is a cornerstone of healthy human relationships and thriving communities. For 50 years, we at New York Center for Interpersonal Development (NYCID) have nurtured people and helped them develop those skills which makes New York City move toward the goal of being a more civil and economically stable city for all.
Every day, we bring that vision closer to reality by providing youth, community, and professional development programs, each one emphasizing problem-solving, communication, trauma care, and intercultural awareness. If not for NYCID’s services our community would not have a trusted ally in finding solutions to their everyday problems. Our neighbors would be at odds and have no choice other than arbitration; and our kids would not have mentors to help them through the tough stuff like failing out of school, homelessness, addiction, teen pregnancy, and dead-end jobs.
Based in Staten Island, a historically underserved borough, and operating throughout New York City, our teams are embedded in schools, courts, family spaces, and neighborhoods, becoming a part of daily life for many of the more than 9,000 New Yorkers we currently serve. Our approaches include numerous innovative mediation and conflict management services, dynamic workshops centered on personal and professional development, after-school enrichment programs, alternative pathways to high school completion, dropout-prevention services, essential skills training, entry level and advanced credentialing and job placement.
Our success stems from how we bring our conflict management expertise into our focus on youth and workforce development. Our conflict management approach leverages effective communication and addressing trauma and harm, while our youth and workforce development tactics help empower our kids through extensive social-emotional learning, goal setting, and personal leadership and essential skills training.
Every day we are in our community helping people resolve their conflict through one-on-one mediations, conflict management and communications training. Each year we mediate more than 700 cases, and train more than 1,000 people in effective communication and conflict resolution.
Every year over 5,200 “At-Promise'' 4 to 24 year olds begin various programs with NYCID. Each of our kids gets a fresh start. Thousands get the extra support in after school enrichment, some are being given a second chance at a high school diploma and a job. Dozens are introduced to a NYCID Credible Messenger who helps them stay focused instead of behind bars.
This is how we improve lives.