New Moms is a grass roots agency that has served thousands of teenage mothers and their children in northwest Chicago.

Early 1980’s – New Moms begins in Chicago’s greater Humboldt Park neighborhood.  Founder operates program out of her apartment and car to help young teenage mothers in crisis.
1983 – Officially incorporated as a 501(c)3. Official beginning of Community Outreach Program for at-risk teen moms (ages 13-21) and their children.
1983 – New Kids Enrichment Program implemented, serving children 0-5 years old.
1988 – New Moms Pioneers homeless services for 18-21 year old pregnant and parenting girls and their children by opening a transitional living shelter – The Cooperative Living Program.
1992 – State of Illinois chooses New Moms as the shelter program model used by DCFS in providing housing for pregnant and parenting wards-of-the-state.
1996 –The Ounce of Prevention Fund selects New Moms to create a pilot welfare-to-work program for pregnant and parenting teens – our Rising Star Career Readiness Program.
1998 – Chosen by Crown Financial as a national pilot site for career aptitude assessment material designed for high-risk urban youth. 
1999 – Featured in a A Heart for the City master’s level college textbook on urban needs and programs. 
2000 – Featured in a national manual/video package highlighting model welfare-to-work programs in the United States.
2001 – New Moms received an award as an outstanding homeless shelter provider from the Apostolic Church of God on the south-side of Chicago.   
2003 – Documentary film featuring New Moms created by Regan Rohde.
2003 – Opened the first Bright Space in Chicago. This play space in our shelter is part of a national initiative between Bright Horizons Foundation for Children and local homeless shelters for women and children. New Moms is honored to be the first Bright Space in Chicago and only the second in Illinois.
2004 – The Illinois Department of Human Services awarded $129,000 to expand our Cooperative Living transitional shelter program and enhance our Rising Star Program.
2006 – Moody Radio and Compassion International selected New Moms for an on-air “awareness-building campaign” to insure that more Chicagoans hear about our agency.