Project Description
Violence Prevention & Intervention
A violence prevention comprehensive model based on key components: mentoring, gang intervention, job readiness training, GED classes, court advocacy, social activities and family support.
The New Life Centers team responds to incidences of violence by providing gang mediation and family support to avoid further acts of violence.
Latest Updates
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 [...]
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 [...]
Prevention
What is distinctive about the ULS Mentoring Model?
Intervention
ADVOCACY
How does ULS mentorship help youth who are caught up in trouble?

From data in 2013-2014, youth involved in our program had a 33% recidivism rate, which is well below the national figures for similar populations.
Of those eligible during the data period, 75% of youth successfully completed probation without reoffending.
In 2015, we engaged over 500 at-risk and gang-affiliated youth, ages 13-24, in reconciliation, peace-making, and community building through sports-based youth development.
From 2013-2015, our mentors worked with 163 youth from our community.
In 25 years of studying efforts to stem youth violence, I know of no more important and comprehensive intervention work to gang members than that of the Urban Life Skills program. This faith-based organization is setting a new standard for how sacred-secular partnerships should work together in addressing and transforming individuals and communities.
– Byron R. Johnson, Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences, Baylor University