What is Neighborhood Transformation?

Neighborhood Transformation is a strategy which helps churches minister in a wholistic manner to people in urban poor neighborhoods. It empowers people to take responsibility for their own lives. It helps neighbors to help their neighbors and moves them from welfare and relief to empowerment. It focuses on assets found in the neighborhood which fosters local ownership instead of being based on problems which they expect outsiders to fix for them.

Neighborhood Transformation (NT) trains church lay-people how to enter a nearby poor neighborhood, develop relationships, identify assets already found in the neighborhood in individuals and groups. Then, by working with the local people, this information is used to improve the living conditions.

• Neighborhood Transformation Overview (a 1.65mb Microsoft Word format file)
• Spanish NT Overview (a 1.1mb Adobe Acrobat file)
• Church Initiated Neighborhood Transformation (a 1mb Microsoft PowerPoint format file)
• From Rural CHE to Urban NT (a 63kb Microsoft Word format file)
• Transforming Neighborhoods (a 3+ mb PowerPoint format file)
• New Description of Neighborhood Transformation

• NT TOLT1, Illinois - June 27 - 29, 2013 - This Training of Local Trainers (TOLT) is being offered Thursday and Friday evenings and all day Saturday. The training will introduce NT concepts while showing the tools and processes of implementing and managing Urban NT. Sessions are conducted in a participatory style with large and small group discussions, as well as various hands-on activities. These methods all easily transfer to the urban neighborhood setting. Deadline to register is June 19. Download registration document. For additional questions email Heidi -
• NT TOLT1, Minnesota - October 3 - 5, 2013 - This Training of Local Trainers (TOLT) is being offered Thursday and Friday evenings and all day Saturday. The training will introduce NT concepts while showing the tools and processes of implementing and managing Urban NT. Sessions are conducted in a participatory style with large and small group discussions, as well as various hands-on activities. These methods all easily transfer to the urban neighborhood setting. - Click here to register or for more info.