United Methodist Neighborhood Centers Inc

Flagship program serving children afterschool from September until May. This program provides a safe haven and "second home" for students during the year where they experience transformative cultural enrichment through education, character and leadership development, economic empowerment, and faith.

Direct social service support that helps families achieve stability through coaching and personal support to achieve education, employment, housing, and health goals as well as access to life's basics.

Dedicated to connect students to nature, create adventure, and inspire joy across Chattanooga.

Dedicated to funding and furthering our Programs.

Our team has designed Client Support Services to deliver intensive, effective, and specialized community-based services to adults and families in need in Alton Park and surrounding neighborhoods of Chattanooga, TN. These services will include the casework and crisis interventions necessary to assess, plan, link, coordinate, and facilitate on behalf of the client. Resource Access services are designed to prevent extreme crises and to assist clients in reaching their short-term and long-term goals. Client stability and support are the primary program goals.

Our Summer Grants Program provides support, resources, and opportunities for local nonprofit organizations and ministries offering youth enrichment during the summer months, ensuring that students' learning and personal growth continues beyond the traditional school year. Through this grant opportunity, we provide summer program funding for organizations that deliver education, discipleship, and/or leadership development programming for youth representing underserved communities, with an average award of $4,000.

Dedicated to creating a sustainable urban farm and communal gathering space around food that empowers the community through health education, food access, and economic empowerment.

The Bethlehem Leadership Unit (B.L.U.) is our leadership training program for high school students in the Chattanooga, Tennessee area. B.L.U. seeks to empower youth with the tools they need to be effective citizens by introducing them to the concept of being a leader who serves and values innovation.

Created in 1993 as Independent Youth Services Foundation, the youth basketball club has served youth from all over the Chattanooga area. In 2001, IYSF, Inc. shifted its service model focus to male mentoring, primarily stressing personal and social development with educational attainment. IYSF, Inc. merged with UMNCI in 2019 and became Boys to Men at the Beth, a male mentoring model.