The Life Change Center Family Health & Wellness Campus supports treatment for an average of 42 pregnant women each year, addressing a critical gap in community health services. Children raised in addiction-impacted households are four times more likely to experience addiction themselves, making early, accessible, family-centered care essential. The new Campus will include low-cost or no-cost childcare, removing one of the most significant barriers to treatment and supporting long-term family stability.

At JPackerStudio, social impact is the backbone of our practice. We believe architecture carries a responsibility that extends well beyond the building, toward strengthening community resilience, advancing environmental justice, and creating spaces that foster long-term wellbeing. The new TLCC Campus will substantially expand and enhance the organization’s ability to serve families, ensuring a positive influence on the surrounding community and providing a stable, future-ready home for its growing programs.

The architectural renovation builds from TLCC’s core concept of renewal and uplift. The design expands existing openings to bring increased natural light into the building and strategically opens sections of the roof to physically express a sense of optimism for the anticipated community of organizations and members who will use the space. Exterior cladding celebrates both continuity and transformation: the existing brick is preserved and refinished, and paired with a rich mixture of fiber-cement slats, large wood-finish panels, metal rainscreen with refined reveals, steel shading elements, and a vibrant green metal soffit and fascia that accentuate the lifted shed-roof forms.

Site improvements include bright steel pergolas, raised planters, and a combination of slat and metal fencing that frames the new childcare center and its outdoor play area. The new and existing roof structures will feature a gray standing-seam metal roof, maintaining the familiar gabled profile common to the neighborhood and respecting the scale of surrounding buildings.

This project reflects our commitment to environmental stewardship. By giving new life to an existing building through adaptive reuse, the Campus significantly reduces the carbon emissions associated with demolition and new construction, proving that social impact and sustainability can be achieved together.

Construction is expected to begin in 2026.

Jeremy Packer Lead Architect

*Initial design of this project was in collaboration with Cathexes LLC