Center for Family Life in Sunset Park

Who We Are

Center for Family Life is a neighborhood-based family and social services organization serving Sunset Park, Brooklyn since 1978. We support our community through a range of free services including school and camp programs, food pantry, workforce development, English-language classes, tax and legal services, advocacy, and family counseling. 

Mission

Our mission is to promote positive outcomes for children and adults in Sunset Park through 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. Poverty, inadequate educational opportunities, and limited access to employment are a few of the enormous challenges confronted by Sunset Park residents. The Center offers access to resources that families need to thrive. Each year, nearly 20,000 children and adults engage with our programs 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.

Center for Family Life’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. 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. As inequity is eliminated in our community, human potential becomes limitless.