MLK Center is the designated community center serving the Mid-North area of Indianapolis, including Crown Hill, Butler-Tarkington, Meridian-Kessler, and Mapleton-Fall Creek neighborhoods. MLK Center was established to create a meaningful impact on the lives of those we serve through quality, multi‐generational programs that build community, invest in youth, empower families, advocate for our neighbors and provide a peaceful space to connect.

To achieve our mission, MLK Center offers a holistic continuum of programs to engage the community we serve and address the systemic barriers that prevent them from reaching their full potential. Our core program is a two-generation Family Success program which integrates our after-school and summer programming into a whole-family approach that helps parents first meet the family’s basic needs, address personal and family trauma, set and attain education and employment goals, and enhance their sense of community and network of social supports. The program addresses academic underachievement with an emphasis on literacy through evidence-based out of school programming and disrupts systemic academic underachievement at Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) School #43 and the cycle of generational poverty.