About Nick

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Nick Brown is a nationally recognized leader in Restorative Practice and the Founder of 360 Connection Consulting Inc. With over 21 years of experience working with vulnerable youth and their families, Nick brings a deep commitment to equity, healing, and systems change.

After completing the Human Services Foundation program in 2003, Nick began his career at Lutherwood, a mental health treatment centre and youth custody program, where he supported youth through strength-based, client-centred approaches. He has since worked extensively within multidisciplinary teams, focusing on supporting young people navigating racism, trauma, and loss of identity.

From 2005 to 2018, Nick worked with the John Howard Society as part of one of Canada’s first gang-exit programs, Breaking the Cycle. In 2015, he transitioned into a Family Counsellor role, providing direct support to at-risk and high-risk families through goal setting, intervention planning, and professional recommendations.

Since 2019, Nick has been a member of the award-winning WRAP Team in School District 36 (Surrey), where he has also developed and designed training modules focused on Restorative Practice through the lens of racism in education. He has been invited on multiple occasions to lecture fourth-year Criminology students at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC.

Nick holds certifications in Restorative Justice, Restorative Practice, Connect Parenting, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). He currently serves as the Racial Equity Manager for the Surrey School District and is completing his Master’s in Compassionate Systems Theory, expected in July 2026.

Outside of his professional work, Nick is an active community volunteer, 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.”