About

Mission

New Life Village provides a residential community where families seeking permanency for children impacted by foster care or trauma can seek healing in a safe and stable intergenerational Village.

Vision

A Village where children and families heal and are empowered to thrive for generations.

Meet Our Village

New Life Village, a unique residential community for families helping to prevent children from entering or removing children from the foster care system. The Village opened its doors in 2012 and is located in Tampa, Florida – an area which is heavily impacted by both the affordable housing and foster care crises. NLV is an intergenerational community designed to support families raising foster to permanency and kinship children who have survived abuse, neglect and traumas, offering them program-rich, below-market housing and onsite wrap-around services.

The Village was designed for the foster-adoptive-kinship families now providing these children permanency and serving seniors seeking intentional mission-focused retirement. Our community-driven intergenerational housing and integrated onsite services improve health and wellbeing, housing stability, and educational attainment for residents at all stages of life. The Seniors living at the Village serve as surrogate grandparents, tutors and mentors to neighboring children. Autonomous families live at the Village which is not a “Group Home”.

The Village program allows children to realize safety, housing stability, permanency, healing and the ability to thrive within a trauma informed community. We serve 52 households, approximately 170 residents, 113 of which are children, by offering them an Affordable Housing Program and an onsite Housing, Healing & Resilience Program.

New Life Village was recognized by the Florida Civic Advance with the 2019 Honorable Mention FCA Civic Excellence Award for Intergenerational Civic Engagement and named Small Nonprofit of the Year, 2022 by Tampa Bay Business & Wealth Magazine. New Life Village has also been recognized by the Florida Council on Aging as the 2024 Florida Power and Light Quality Senior Living Awards “Service to Senior” award recipient. New Life Village is the only community of its kind in Florida!

We are living the proverb “It Takes a Village to Raise a Child”.

Why Do We Exist?

Both nationally and locally, the foster care system is filled with children who need a forever home. These children have been through more than most of us can imagine and end up in foster care through no fault of their own. Hillsborough County is amidst both a Foster Care and an Affordable Housing crisis. There are simply not enough affordable housing options for seniors and families with multiple children. There are also not enough foster homes for the volume of children entering into the system of care.

Nationally…..

Foster children, on average, wait 3-4 years or more to become adopted and spend about 12-20 months in care Get the Facts: Foster Care & Adoption
Over 20,000 children age out of foster care each year, leaving many homeless or at risk of homelessness Department of Health and Human Services
The US spends about $11.0 billion annually on child welfare Congressional Research Service
Florida is 3rd in US, behind California and Texas, with the number of children in foster care

Locally, as of January 2026:

In the State of Florida, the Suncoast Region and Circuit 13 (Hillsborough County) rank 2^nd& 3^rd in the State with the number of children in the System of Care
In Circuit 13, Hillsborough County, there are approximately 1,139 children in out of home care DCF Child Welfare Dashboard
In Circuit 6, Pinellas/Pasco Countys, there are approximately 974 children in out of home care DCF Child Welfare Dashboard