About Nick

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As a nationally recognized leader in Restorative Practice, Nick Brown, Founder of 360 Connection Consulting Inc, brings over 18 years of experience working with vulnerable youth and their families. Upon completion of the Human Services Foundation program in 2003, Nick began his career at Lutherwood, a mental health treatment center and youth custody program. Throughout his career he has worked alongside a multi-disciplinary team, providing strength based, client centered treatment to youth struggling with racism and loss of identity.  From 2005 to 2018, Nick worked at John Howard Society in one of Canada's first gang-exit programs, Breaking the Cycle. In 2015 he moved into a Family Counsellor role, offering direct support to at-risk and high-risk families in the creation of goal setting and providing professional recommendations upon completion. Since 2019 Nick has worked for the award-winning WRAP Team through School District 36 while developing and designed a training module in Restorative Practice through Racism in Education.  Nick has been invited on several occasions to do lectures at SFU in Burnaby, BC to the fourth year Criminology students.

Nick is certified in Restorative Justice, Restorative Practice, Connect Parenting, Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, 

In his spare time Nick actively volunteers in community by coaching both high school and club basketball teams

Nick had the odds stacked against him right from the beginning. “I come from a single parent home. My mom is from Jamaica and came here when she was 18”. Nick grew up as the 7th child in a family of 10 and says his mother was strict, but also driven. Basketball, football, and track were what kept him on the straight and narrow, and he had older siblings to ensure that school didn’t end when the bell rang and was educated by his older siblings about Black History.  Although he had a good start, toward the end of high school, Nick started getting involved with the wrong crowd and was headed down the wrong path. " Being black, having negative interactions with police, being stereotyped, having low expectations put on me were par for the course. I kept getting pushed further away from community, school, and home. The streets were what I could relate with.”   It was ultimately his mother who dragged him out. Nick decided he needed to change his life. He went to his school guidance counsellor to look at his options. “I didn’t even think college was possible. I don’t know what kind of future I would have had without the adults in my life who were there when I needed them.”