Reconcile New Orleans/Café Reconcile

Reconcile New Orleans, an integral part of this community's revitalization and recovery, is a nonprofit organization providing at-risk youth with opportunities to learn life, interpersonal, and work skills for success. Since the program's launch in 2000, Reconcile has graduated nearly 400 youth between the ages of 16 and 22. The culinary training project utilizes a nonprofit restaurant, Café Reconcile, as a training, mentoring, and independent skill-buliding site to provide support, experience, and ability enhancement in the hospitality industry. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Reconcile implemented a construction program utilizing the same hands-on mentoring model to train youth while at the same time building affordable housing units in the community. With the late Fr. Harry Tompson, SJ, co-founders Tim Falcon and Craig Cuccia believe that all people are called to be part of the solution by encouraging self-sufficiency and providing viable opportunities for those who might otherwise find themselves on inhumane and destructive paths. Visit their website.