NEW FOUNDATIONS TRUST

New Foundations Trust (NFT) was established in 2008 following a number of serious crimes being committed by young people in Manurewa. As concerned community members with vast experience in alternative education, Youth Justice, Child Care and Protection, school chaplaincy, youth training and mentoring we banded together to form a trust with a plan to help. We saw that by the time young people ended up in alternative education, they were so badly damaged emotionally that only a few were ever able to be redeemed sufficiently to reach their full potential in life. From this insight we committed ourselves to be ‘a fence at the top of the cliff' - making a difference when it's most needed. We created a pilot program called "BRIDGE" (Building Respect Inspires Dreams Goals and Expectations) and offered it to James Cook High School. The outcomes were extremely positive. Since then we have continued to run this program in more local secondary schools, continuing to strengthen the content and..