A facility tour will be available on Sunday, November 2. Transportation will be provided. There is a $25 required donation to the NCCHC Foundation to register. 

The New Beginnings Youth Development Center (NBYDC) is a secure and structured 60-bed residential facility in Laurel, Maryland for DYRS-committed youth. The program’s focus is on preparing youth for a productive re-entry into the community by providing academic, behavioral health, vocational, recreational, restorative justice, and family engagement services, supports, and interventions. The Oasis Reserve Campus is an outdoor transformative healing space, encouraging urban youth to engage in activities they rarely, if ever, experienced in the past. Specifically, participants are exposed to the natural environment and outdoor activities including kayaking, ropes course team building, animal encounters, and creative spaces potentially influencing their neuroplasticity and capacity to reduce biological effects of ACE’s.