From career development to afterschool and summer programs, Neu-Life provides youths with engagement, life skills and opportunities to keep them on the right path. The NeuVue project is designed to bridge gaps related to housing, workforce development, mental health and economic opportunity in Milwaukee. “It’s really going to be a special place,” Mardak said. Seals, who moved to Milwaukee from Chicago at 13 with a gang-related background, joined Neu-Life at 16. This article first appeared on Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service and is republished here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.