The Nehemiah Group mission is to serve the underserved, empower the underprivileged, and create prosperity through community revitalization. The vision is focused on community revitalization and stabilization through a comprehensive plan for economic and community development, providing a tomorrow of hope, promise and opportunity.
Founded in 1999, The Nehemiah Group exists to equip, mentor, counsel, and empower transitional men and women striving to recover from a life of crime and life-controlling problems. We provide a comprehensive approach to recovery for each person including the physical, mental, social, emotional, and spiritual aspects of their lives. Our vision is to provide a refuge for people desperately seeking to change their behavioral destructive lives, to become productive and healthy members of society.
We have consistently demonstrated our foundation is solid, our leaders are passionately committed, and we have the vision and energy to accomplish what we undertake. Founded in 1999 The Nehemiah Group came about through the unfortunate closing of a transitional housing program that lost its funding and was ordered to vacate the premises. Amir Khan was told by a colleague that her brother and fifteen other men were going to be put out on the street with nowhere to live. Amir Khan’s passion to help those in need and serve the under-served led him to birth The Nehemiah Group. A building to facilitate these men was purchased within days. We began organizing our efforts helping them receive the practical and material assistance they desperately need to move from a life of dependency to an independent, productive and meaningful life.
Over the past ten years we have been diligently and passionately mentoring prisoners and ex-prisoners. In 2001, we acquired a single-family transitional house for women and a 40-bed facility in Bridgeton, NJ called the Genesis House. We provided housing, food, employment assistance, elementary counseling and a full recovery curriculum.
