Family Life Center

Thank you for choosing to support The Family Life Center!

Who We Are:

The Family Life Center began supporting local families in 2008, created in response to a growing need for a centralized resource within the community. Its purpose was to serve as a clearinghouse and referral hub for under‑resourced families, reducing duplication of services while maintaining a comprehensive database that tracks each family and the assistance they receive.

Our Mission:

The Family Life Center’s mission is to bring hope to individuals and families facing seemingly hopeless circumstances. We do this by walking alongside them with encouragement, education, and empowerment—helping them move from crisis to stability and ultimately to sustainability. This mission is not ours alone; it is a shared commitment embraced by our network of partnerships with local churches, nonprofits, corporate sponsorships and the entire community. The Family Life Center serves as the first point of contact for individuals and families experiencing crisis in our community. We provide compassionate, comprehensive assessments to understand each household’s unique needs and connect them with the resources that support long‑term stability. Our core mission is to help families maintain safe, secure, and affordable housing — preventing homelessness before it begins and empowering families to move toward lasting sustainability.

Our Principles:

The following philosophical principles and understandings guide the daily operations in all areas and activities as the Family Life Center.
 • We believe in the ability of people to solve their own problems when given access to opportunity and resources.
 • We believe the resources within a community are adequate to initiate genuine renewal and redevelopment.
 • We devote ourselves to the discovery and mobilization of individual and community resources and capacities.
 • We believe in partnership and collaboration, therefore we hold all of the resources at our disposal with an open hand.
 • We believe that our walk with God will always lead us into the community around us.
 • We believe charity must be replaced by compassionate community building as a basic strategy.
 • We believe the public, private and faith-based organizations of a city must all play important roles in community development.
 • We believe it is better to teach a man to fish rather than to give him a fish, but best of all is "pond ownership."

Remember... TOGETHER, with your support, we are building a better community!