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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.
Nakia is excited for this new chapter in her life—one with clarity, focus, and a new home.
Nakia grew up in the DC area but didn’t have much stability growing up. “I got passed around and moved a lot…it [was] bad at the time [but] I’ve always been able to adapt to different places, people, and situations because of all the moving,” she says.
Sherry beams with pride as she talks about her youngest son, Rashad, earning his high school diploma this year.
“I’m amazed and happy,” says Sherry, as she dotes on her son for overcoming tremendous obstacles to get to this point. Rashad and Sherry see this commencement as a start to a brighter future for them both. In 2011, Sherry and her children lost stable housing. Rashad, her youngest, was only 8 years old when her family arrived at DC General Shelter. Here, she was connected with Community of Hope.
Day after day, we are exposed to first- and second-hand traumas in our communities and in the world around us. Adrienne Wise, Community of Hope's Director of Emotional Wellness, shares about the importance of emotional wellness and some best practices to help process grief and suffering.
Community of Hope provided over 40,900 quality, compassionate healthcare visits to 11,271 patients in 2020 across Washington, DC.
164 families in Community of Hope's housing program worked with our Employment Specialists and were twice as likely to find jobs in 2019.
- Myiesha Little, housing client
99 percent of families served in homelessness programs were stably housed or in positive destinations in 2020.
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 1,142 families, including 3,688 individuals in 2020.
Community of Hope works to improve health and end family homelessness to make Washington, DC more equitable.
-Samuel Mingle, Sr., Community of Hope health patient
