ABOUT
NEW FREEDOM
PROJECT
In 2006, a group of incarcerated men joined together on common ground after realizing their time was best served by helping others. Inside the confined walls of prison they developed a full curriculum of peer lead courses to teach their fellow inmates fundamental life-skills and recovery principles to prepare each other for reentry into society.
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Family members of one of the founding peers applied for 501(c)3 status for a non-profit entity, originally named Gold Canyon Heart & Home (GCHH). The success of this group led to corrections administration allowing the nonprofit to support peer mentors having their own classroom settings unsupervised by corrections officers.
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Of the 140+ original mentors of the peer-to-peer program that have been released, none have recidivated. These original mentors were responsible for helping over 4,200 men and woman successfully reenter the community.​
We do ask that you return one good deed with another and perform an act of kindness. This generous cycle of compassion and goodwill continues indefinitely.
- Joe McDonald
Today GCHH, now known as The New Freedom Project (NFP), is working from the outside-in on our mission to create generational change and strengthen communities by providing critical resources to post incarcerated individuals. We partner with New Freedom Operation’s intensive outpatient behavioral health program to reach the largest population of people who have been released from Arizona prisons. Our current programs have served over 4,000 individuals by providing funds for housing, meals, clothes, hygiene and other basic needs to New Freedom's members.