Mission Values & Principles

MISSION

Since 1898, Gads Hill Center creates opportunities for children and their families to build a better life through education, access to resources, and community engagement. 

VISION

All individuals, regardless of where they start, will achieve their full potential. 

 OVERVIEW

Gads Hill Center values children and their families – their ability to learn, to lead and to positively shape their futures. Since 1898, Gads Hill Center supports working families through comprehensive programs and services that connect children and families to resources that meet their educational, employment, and health-related goals. 

Gads Hill Center works with more than 4,500 children across Chicago by providing the following high-quality accredited programs and services:

• EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION:  Empowers parents to be their children's first teachers with early childhood development resources including comprehensive educational and developmental services.

• YOUTH SERVICES:  Provides out-of-school programs to children from kindergarten through sixth grade, mentoring to at-risk youth from sixth through eighth grade, and STEM-focused academic enrichment and college preparatory programs to high school students.

• COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SUPPORT AND COMMUNITY SERVICES:  Connects children and families to resources that meet their educational, job and health-related goals.

• MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES:  Enhances academic success, social-emotional development and well-being through individualized support, access to mental health resources and community engagement.