New Life Centers seeks to equip this generation in every community we serve. We work alongside community partners and listen to neighbors to create solutions that fit our neighborhood. Our desire is to host Centers where people can continually come to with needs or ideas that transform their community.

While now serving as a nationwide model for gang intervention and a citywide model for after-school programs, New Life Centers of Chicagoland, NFP was originally created in 2005 to address the needs of communities surrounding New Life Community Church locations. As neighbors approached the church with pressing issues–gang violence, teen pregnancy, justice system involvement, unemployment–New Life responded with custom-made Centers programs that fit the community. Initial sites grew in the Little Village and Midway neighborhoods (2005). Subsequent programs sprang up at Humboldt Park (2008), Cicero, Jefferson Park, and Oak Forest. To this day, New Life Centers continues in its culture of creating programs that address neighborhood needs and empower neighborhood involvement.

New Life Centers seeks to equip leaders within each of these New Life communities to serve their neighbors through health, education and employment services for all ages.