Center for Family Life in Sunset Park

Our mission is to promote positive outcomes for children and adults in Sunset Park through the provision of a comprehensive range of neighborhood-based family and social services. Sunset Park is a densely populated, low-income neighborhood with a large percentage of recent immigrants. As such, the Center offers access to resources that families need to thrive, including family counseling, cultural, educational, and recreational programs at neighborhood public schools, adult and youth employment programs, and an emergency storefront for food and advocacy. In partnership with our community, we provide opportunities for personal development, enrich neighborhood residents’ quality of life, and nurture relationships that sustain families and support youth in becoming confident, capable adults.

Poverty, inadequate educational opportunities, and limited access to employment are a few of the enormous challenges confronted by Sunset Park residents. At our Center, we have witnessed the powerful human struggle to overcome such challenges, as well as the creativity and productivity of the residents who form our vibrant community. The Center’s work is rooted in daily, lived experience and guided by a vision of families and social institutions in an ever-evolving cycle of mutual sustenance and collaborative growth. We dedicate ourselves to this service because we believe that the social inequity impacting the residents of Sunset Park is deeply unjust. As inequity is eliminated in our community, human potential becomes limitless.

Who We Are

Center for Family Life (CFL), a program of SCO Family of Services, is a neighborhood-based family and social services organization with deep roots in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. CFL's work is grounded in the daily, lived experience of the Sunset Park community and guided by a vision of neighborhood families and social institutions evolving over time and contributing to each other’s ongoing development.

Our comprehensive range of services aims to sustain and nurture families, and to create a supportive community from which children can emerge as confident, capable adults.

The Center’s programs are designed to reinforce the role of the agency as a stabilizing anchor in the community, one that provides culturally consonant services and creates environments where participants’ strengths are recognized and they are treated as valued partners rather than subjects.

Through our extensive portfolio of integrated services in counseling, employment, education, the arts and recreation, Center for Family Life serves nearly 15,000 individuals in 10,500 families each year.