New Orleans Dance Collective (NODC) is a 501(c)(3) organization using dance as intervention for inner-city at-risk youth. The New Orleans Dance Collective actively links dance with social work and seeks to address the overwhelming need for life-affirming, esteem-building cultural activities for inner-city at-risk youth in New Orleans. Its mission is to celebrate community and diversity by providing dance programs for inner-city at-risk youth that utilize group therapy techniques as a means of intervention and to positively affect behavior through dance within a group setting.