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Community of Hope makes three primary promises to the community.
Caring for Families – We offer quality healthcare and stable housing to the most vulnerable mothers, fathers, and children who struggle with health and often experience homelessness.
Improving Lives - We focus on the strengths of each person, as they create stable lives for themselves and promising futures for their children.
Leading Change – Through partnerships and innovation, we work toward transforming systems to serve our neighbors better.
Caring for Families. Improving Lives. Leading Change.
January is National Mentoring Month and we want to congratulate Mentor Kristal Lightning! We are thrilled to share that not only is Kristal Community of Hope's 2018 Mentor of the Year but she was also chosen as one of the three United Way of the National Capital Area and Deloitte's Mentoring Matters Coalition Mentors of the Year! She was chosen out of a pool of over 25 organizations who host mentoring programs throughout the DC-metro area.
“When others don’t advocate for you, you advocate for yourself.”
That is the motivation for client Jennifer McLaughlin. Jennifer, 41, originally grew up in Baltimore city and shares that she never had an example of what stable housing looked like because her parents became homeless when she was just three years old, forcing the family to put her in the foster care system. After being in the system for a couple of years she was then reconnected with her family again. Unfortunately, their time together was short-lived, and Jennifer moved out when she was just 15 years old.
Deidra Eskew, DC native and mom of two, knew when she came to Community of Hope that she had to change. She had never known her father and, as a result, went through much of her childhood and into adulthood feeling alone. She had harbored resentment towards her mother – due to her father’s absence and then was burdened with guilt and sadness when her mom passed away.
Community of Hope provided over 50,000 quality, compassionate healthcare visits to 10,802 patients in 2017 across Washington, DC.
197 families in Community of Hope's housing program worked with our Employment Specialists and were twice as likely to find jobs in 2017.
- Alyce McFarland, former housing client and current board member
92 percent of families served in homelessness programs were stably housed or in positive destinations in 2017.
Community of Hope has grown to serve 7x as many patients and homeless families in the last 15 years.
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It all starts with a place to call home. Community of Hope worked to end and prevent homelessness for 1,045 families, including 3,141 individuals in 2017.
Community of Hope creates opportunities for low-income families in Washington, DC, including those experiencing homelessness, to achieve good health, a stable home, family-sustaining income, and hope.
-Alanda Braxton Miles, Community of Hope patient
