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We’re the leading provider of reentry services for women across Long Island.

New Hour's vision is to empower justice impacted women and provide successful support for mothers and children. 

With your help we can make a difference.

EMERGE

EMERGE is an advocacy and leadership training program for those who identify as women and have been impacted by the criminal justice system.

Our programs provide women with life skills, conflict resolution training, resume assistance, parenting skills, and much more. 

In addition, New Hour partners with financial planners for our EMERGE 2.0 program, where women are taught financial literacy and wellness skills. 

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Our Spring 2022 EMERGE Graduates celebrate their growth and accomplishments.

Our EMERGE program is held every spring and fall, and each session runs for 12 weeks. Click below to learn more or submit your application to join our next cohort. 

In The Community

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New Hour's Executive Director, Serena Martin, delivered powerful testimony at the Joint Public Hearing: Safety of Persons in Custody, Transparency, and Accountability within State Correctional Facilities —lifting the voices of women who’ve been pregnant behind bars, shackled during labor, and denied basic reproductive care.

Under the Trump administration, Americans are looking to the states to safeguard their fundamental rights and reproductive health. That’s why New York must pass the Compassionate and Reproductive Equity (CARE) Act to protect the health care rights of a very vulnerable population: incarcerated mothers and their infants.

In this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff delivers updates on the North Carolina union election at an Amazon warehouse, the deportation of immigrants, and the U.S. construction industry, a lesson in how capitalism installs new technology like A.I. and how it could be far better done. In the second half of this week's episode, Professor Wolff interviews Serena Martin, a formerly incarcerated social activist and executive director of New Hour for Women and Children.

Our Impact This Year

  • Women Impacted

    2,600

  • Volunteer Hours

    1,200

  • Mary A., EMERGE graduate
    Mary A., EMERGE graduate

    New Hour's EMERGE program helped me to believe in myself again.

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