Community Services
Organic Farming and Geothermic Growing Spaces
Our organic farming and geothermic growing spaces offer community members a chance to reconnect with the Earth while cultivating nutrient-rich, healing foods. Using sustainable, chemical-free methods and geothermal energy for year-round food production, these growing spaces support food sovereignty and environmental restoration. They are designed not only to nourish the body but also to reduce environmental exposure to toxins that drive chronic stress and disease. Through this work, we move trauma from the body, empower individuals and families to reclaim agency over their health, and cultivate ecosystems of care, healing, and collective resilience.
Mobile Health & Nutrition Outreach: Food as Medicine (FaM) Unit
We sustain and expand our Mobile Food as Medicine Unit to deliver direct health, wellness, and nutrition services to families, pregnant people, and new mothers across low-income neighborhoods. Our mobile team ensures language access and connects eligible residents with WIC, Medicaid, and SNAP benefits, while also providing culturally responsive care, health screenings, cooking demonstrations, and holistic education grounded in food justice and healing traditions. The van acts as a mobile safe haven for those navigating limited access to healthcare.
Survivor Advocacy & Crisis Response Services
We enhance our trauma-informed support services for individuals impacted by gender-based and state violence. Our team of master’s-level social work interns, peer advocates, and cultural healers provides ongoing counseling, emergency intervention, safety planning, accompaniment, and healing circles. Whether someone is in immediate crisis or seeking long-term care, we offer culturally grounded mental health services rooted in dignity, restoration, and empowerment.
Community Doula Training & Birth Justice Advocacy
We continue training a new generation of community-based doulas through our holistic birth justice program. Our approach guarantees access to quality, continuous, and culturally grounded care before, during, and after childbirth, especially for those traditionally excluded from support systems. Our trained doulas and birth workers serve families with compassion and advocacy, offering prenatal education, labor support, postpartum care, and emotional healing.
Cooperative Economics
Our Healing Cooperative is our shared effort to build a community-rooted healing economy where everyone contributes and everyone benefits. Members offer time, skills, resources, or financial support, and in return gain access to wellness services, retreats, farm programs, education, and crisis care. Our Mutual Aid network extends this cooperative spirit by providing solidarity-based assistance for those facing financial hardship or health and family crises. Through pooled resources, sponsorship circles, and collective decision-making, we ensure access to integrative therapies, Fresh Earth food shares, herbal medicine, transportation, crisis counseling, maternal health support, and restorative land-based retreats, creating a durable safety net for whole-person healing.
Our Mutual Aid Commitment
Leading With Love Emergency Food and Funds Assistance is a mutual aid project within The Reconciliation Center (formerly Black Women’s Blueprint) that has been part of our tradition. We stood on the frontlines during COVID-19 and have been using this model successfully to provide our community with essential resources in times of crisis. We work with local food packing partners – Brooklyn Packers and local farms from central NYC to source good food as part of our food as medicine programming. We also work with partners and groups outside of NYC in central and upstate NY. These partners are Somali Bantu, Utica immigrants, and Ghanaian women farmers. Over the years we have provided mutual aid to thousands of Black women and people on the margins across NY State in ways of supplies, stipends and support around food insecurity and health.
