Dedicated to empowering justice-impacted
women, mothers, & their children.

New Hour was founded to provide meaningful support to current and formerly incarcerated women, their children and families. We build community to promote successful re-entry and lasting reintegration, and to reform unjust criminal justice system policies. We empower directly impacted people to utilize their lived experiences to create lasting reforms to the carceral system.

• A New Way of Life

• Assemblyman Phil Ramos

• Belzer Charitable Trust

• Capital One Giving

• The Charles T. Bauer Family Foundation

• Circle for Justice Innovations

• David Rockefeller Fund

• Engage New York

• FREE Her

• FWD.us

• The Jewish Communal Fund, Malka Fund

• Galaxy Gives

• The Good Neighbors Fund

• The Horace and Amy Hagedorn Fund

• The Knapp-Swezey Foundation

• Laura B. Vogler Foundation, Inc.

• Long Island Racial Equity Donor Collaborative

• LICF’s Long Island Unitarian Universalist Fund

• New York Community Trust

• Serving USA

• The Good Neighbor Initiative

• The New York Women's Foundation

• The Patrina Foundation

• The Pritchard Charitable Trust

• The Public Welfare Foundation

• The Sunshine Foundation

• Together Rising

• UU Congregation Shelter Rock Women’s Committee

In 2013, a small group of volunteers began mentoring women in the Riverhead Correctional Facility. One of the volunteers was Mrs. Patty Kraus. She and others quickly realized there were almost no re-entry or supportive services for women. As a result Mrs. Kraus and her husband, Mr. George Kraus, became New Hour's founding donors after being introduced to Serena Liguori through Sister Tesa Fitzgerald of Hour Children. Ms. Liguori developed a vision plan which, with the help of the Krauses' generous seed funding and founding board members, created New Hour.

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• Weekly Jail Programming in both Nassau & Suffolk Facilities

• Monthly Empowerment Support Groups

• 15-Week Advocacy & Empowerment Program EMERGE

• Financial Education Workshops

• New Hour 2020 Program Participation Statistics

• Join the Long Island Social Justice Action Network (LISJAN)

• #Project Dignity

• New Hour Freedom Forever 2023 Gala

New Hour's vision is to empower justice impacted women and provide successful support for mothers and children. We recognize the critical role mothers play—often as the primary caretakers for their children. We understand the need for specialized support for mothers whose pathways to prison or jail are often tied to domestic violence or substance abuse. By providing  parenting skills, work skills, and wellness programs during and after incarceration, we aim to give women the tools needed to become powerful change agents for themselves, their community and their children. 

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