Harmony Education and Life Partners (H.E.L.P.) is a community-based organization that provides integrated and comprehensive services, in a sustained way,  to the children and families of Irvington, New Jersey.

Our goal is to design and provide effective programs throughout the lives of our families. Our services touch on every aspect of a healthful, positive, and successful life—including education, family, community, health, arts, culture, and recreation—and are designed to sustain young people as they progress into adulthood and independent lives of their own.

We hope to create a wellspring of community engagement and pride to break with the corrosive and desperate culture of street violence that, for decades, has been destroying lives and community in Irvington.

Irvington is a town dispirited by poverty, violence and apathy. H.E.L.P. brings quality services and mobilizes individuals and resources to create the necessary conditions to help people help themselves and their neighbors.

We also take an integrative approach to strengthening the community by organizing neighborhood institutions from the bottom up.

Our philosophy is to find the best practices and program models that address urban poverty and violence and adapt them to Irvington’s needs and particularities. We seek to partner with other organizations, when possible, to maximize resources.