New Community Corporation - The Faces of Homelessness

Family Resources

The NCC Family Resource Center takes a holistic approach to services by linking those who seek assistance with resources and information that will empower them to improve the quality of their lives.

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“I love the center. My oldest son has been here in Harmony House since he was four months old and he graduated two years ago,” said Janice Williams, a parent from the community who utilizes the center. “I still have two of my sons here. The teachers are doing a great job. They treat my children as their own children.”
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His Own Auto Body Shop

From NCC To His Own Auto Body Business
To find someone whose life has been changed by New Community’s Youth and Adult Automotive Training Center (YAATC), look no further than Tarik Mack. Now the owner of an auto body shop in East Orange, Mr. Mack enrolled and graduated from the YAATC program. Mr. Mack started as an automotive trainee and attended NCC night and day programs.

A HOME OF OUR OWN: FORMER HARMONY HOUSE FAMILY BACK ON THEIR FEET

When Adam and Tia Natal look back over the past few years, they marvel that their life has taken them on a journey from homelessness to basically living the American dream.

They have two wonderful sons, Gerald , 4, and Benjamin, 3. Both Adam, 26, and Tia, 25, are now employed full-time in good paying jobs and they recently purchased their first home— a modest, two bedroom trailer in South Jersey. Had it not been for their stop at New Community Harmony House transitional living facility in Newark back in 2009, however, the couple is convinced their upward mobility would have been much slower.

“Harmony House gave us a stable foundation,” said Adam Natal. “It allowed us to get some things done so we could get ourselves together.”

The family landed at Harmony House in October 2009 after Adam lost his carpet cleaning job and they could no longer pay the rent on their Newark apartment. While at Harmony House, where they had their own apartment, the couple was able to receive needed marriage counseling and parenting workshops, in addition to stabilizing their financial situation with public assistance. Adam Natal also received some training as an auto technician in New Community’s Automotive Technician Training Program, but never finished. Tia was trained as a cashier in an NCC Workforce program, which did lead to a local supermarket job.

The couple was able to move out of Harmony House into a Newark apartment in May of 2010, but was still not happy about having to depend on public assistance to make ends meet. Unable to find work, Adam Natal decided to pursue a career as an Emergency Medical Technician(EMT) and enrolled in a training center in Bergen County.

“It was very difficult,” he said.

He persevered and finished. The couple, who are originally from South Jersey, relocated after Tia found employment as an alarm company dispatcher. Adam graduated from the EMT program and found work with a local ambulance carrier. They bought the trailer, located in a well-maintained park in Willliamstown, with the help of a family member.

He works days and she works nights and things are still a bit of a struggle in terms of balancing out the finances and family life. But spending this past Christmas in a home of their own was more than they ever envisioned.

“Even though we still struggle, we’re doing it ourselves,” Adam said.

And that is the goal of Harmony House –to help residents become self-sufficient.

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