Programs

  • A leadership program for directly impacted families that prepares them with organizing, policy and other skills along with how to integrate Healing Justice into campaigns for justice & accountability so they may assume their rightful place as leaders in the movement to end state violence.  

  • A National network of trained community healers and cultural practitioners co-leading the creation of alternative and sustainable healthcare frameworks that provide support to individuals and communities experiencing trauma, harm, or crisis. The Justice

    Teams Network, mobilizes families, organizations, and the CA Healers Network to support impacted communities. The vision is that these networks lead the implementation of Healing Justice programs and provide organizational support across the state and country. 

  • When communities experience violence or tragedy, healing teams are mobilized to provide emotional support, cultural healing practices, and community care.

  • Community-based responses to harm that prioritize care and accountability.

    Programs include:

    • Survivor Line

      • A safe and anonymous hotline to report experiences of state violence with an option to join support groups, advocacy efforts or Healing Justice clinics

    • Mental Health First Response

      • Hotline and rapid response for community crisis including mental health, substance over utilization and domestic violence safety planning

    • Substance Recovery & Harm Reduction

      • Addressment of the opiate epidemic through Traditional Chinese Medicine, support groups, and values aligned talk therapy

    • Domestic Violence Intervention & Prevention

      • Research and development of holistic responses to DV and IPV

    • Indigenous Medicines and Community Networks as Violence Prevention  

      • Community Skill Building Circles where impacted families and communities learn and re-member ancestral healing modalities

  • NIPSA’s communications and narrative work is rooted in the belief that changing systems requires changing the story people are told about safety, harm, healing, and accountability. For too long, public safety has been defined through policing, punishment, surveillance, and incarceration. NIPSA works to disrupt those dominant narratives by advancing a new vision of safety grounded in Healing Justice, community-led care, dignity, collective well-being, and liberation for Black, Brown, and all colonized people.

    Through strategic storytelling, media engagement, political education, campaign messaging, digital organizing, and public narrative strategy, NIPSA uplifts the models, leaders, and communities already building alternatives to the carceral state. This work helps shift public understanding from crisis response to prevention, from punishment to healing, and from state control to community power. By shaping the language, stories, and frameworks that define real safety, NIPSA strengthens the cultural conditions needed to disrupt harm, heal trauma, and transmute violence into systems of care.