Celebrating our All-Stars
Wow, what a weekend! Our young people were highlighted, celebrated, and got to spend the weekend with the stars!
Day in and day out we get to do life together with our young people and we know how amazing they […]
February 2020
December 2019
Tackling & Thanksgiving Brings Little Village Together
The Turkey Bowl brought community together for a day of Football, Food and Fellowship. With the weather at a crisp 40 degrees, we were able to play 3 games, one flag football and two old fashion tackle football. The community brought a lot of food to share like rice, mashed potatoes, hot chocolate and tamales. […]
October 2019
‘Hope Squad’ Bringing Light to Incarcerated Young People
This past year, New Life Centers has had the privilege of serving youth at another Juvenile Detention Center located in St Charles, IL. This project is a collaborative of the Restorative Justice Hubs (www.rjhubs.org) with partners who are located in the neighborhoods with the highest rates of violence, and are committed to hyper-local programming, […]
July 2019
NLC Featured in Obama Foundation’s Annual Report – Check It Out!
New Life Centers was recently featured in the Obama Foundation’s annual report. Click on the link below to see what Benny and our street outreach team is doing on a regular basis!
June 2019
NLC Youth Engage In Paintball Battle with Alpha Psi Lambda
New Life Centers youth participated in paintballing with the brothers of the intercollegiate fraternity Alpha Psi Lambda. The group of youth that we took from Little Village had never experienced paintballing and were excited try it. It was an evenly matched battle as the teams were mixed with both NLC youth and Alpha […]
January 2019
Chosen by Obama Foundation as My Brother’s Keeper Seed Grantee!
Check out the video!
May 2018
Urban Life Skills Receives Award for Innovation in Mentoring
On May 18th New Life Centers was recognized by Mentor Illinois with the 2018 Innovation in Mentoring Award. This was given for all the mentoring innovations we have implemented in the Urban Life Skills Program. Thanks to our staff for all their hard work!
February 2018
Urban Life Skills Partners with SGA To Give Youth on Probation a New Experience
The Urban Life Skills Juvenile Justice program is striving to not only teach our young people essential life skills, but also, to give them the opportunity to experience different things and meet new people.
Urban Life Skills Receives National Gold Star Mentoring Recognition Award
We were honored to receive the National Gold Star Mentoring Recognition Award for our top quality standards in mentoring. Jorge Roque, our Mentoring Director, was on hand to receive the award.
We are very proud of the hard work that the Urban Life Skills team has invested in order to receive this recognition. Thanks to all […]
December 2017
Turkey Bowl 2017
Great night of football and food on Thanksgiving Day!