Our Mission

The Utica Center for Development was organized to render quality professional development and assistance to the community in a vast array of fields. To utilize assets given, to improve the quality of life for the residents within our service area. To fulfill any unmet needs with-in the following populations: Low-income families and individuals, the homeless, the elderly, the disabled, Veterans, people suffering from addictions, people living with HIV/AIDS, the terminal ill, and disadvantaged children. To spearhead environmental causes to help ensure a safe and healthy area for residents to live in. To lessen the burdens of government, to reduce neighborhood tensions, work towards the elimination of prejudice and discrimination, to defend human and civil rights secured by law, and to combat community deterioration and juvenile delinquency. To utilize economic and urban redevelopment to accomplish the agency's goals.