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Bellevue Family Success Center
Bellevue Family Success Center

Our family caring for yours – a one-stop shop for families and residents living in Washington DC.

Our Bellevue Family Success Center provides stability and hope by connecting families experiencing hardships to community and government resources. Sign up to work with one of our Family Success Specialists today. 
About the Center

The Center, located at Community of Hope’s Conway Health and Resource Center, is one of eleven family success centers located in neighborhoods throughout Wards 5, 7, and 8 and operated by trusted community organizations. 

Monday9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Tuesday9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Wednesday9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Thursday9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Friday9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
SaturdayCLOSED
SundayCLOSED
Getting Started.

The caring staff at the Bellevue Family Success Center stand ready to serve anyone from across the District who comes through our doors, with a special focus on our Bellevue neighbors. 

Join Our Programs

The Bellevue Family Success Center offers intentional programming to connect community members to vital resources, empowering them to overcome challenges and achieve lasting success.

Get one-on-one support with creating strong applications for jobs, ERAP, educational support, and more. We help you put your best foot forward!

A two-part program where families and individuals can come to begin their self-paced employment & housing search journey.

A parent led group focused on sharing knowledge on parenting and child development, increase parental resilience, and create supportive environments for parents.

Upcoming Events

Support & Assistance

The Protective Factors
Framework

No one can eliminate stress from parenting, but a parent’s capacity for resilience can affect how a parent deals with stress. Resilience is the ability to manage and bounce back from all types of challenges that emerge in every family’s life. It means finding ways to 

Friends, family members, neighbors and community members provide emotional support, help solve problems, offer parenting advice and give concrete assistance to parents. Networks of support are essential to parents and also offer opportunities for people to “give back”, an important part of self- esteem as well as a benefit for the community. Isolated families may need extra help in reaching out to build positive relationships.

Meeting basic economic needs like food, shelter, clothing and health care is essential for families to thrive. Likewise, when families encounter a crisis such as domestic violence, mental illness or substance abuse, adequate services and supports need to be in place to provide stability, treatment and help for family members to get through the crisis. 

Accurate information about child development and appropriate expectations for children’s behavior at every age help parents see their children and youth in a positive light and promote their healthy development. Information can come from many sources, including family members as well as parent education classes and surfing the internet. Studies show information is most effective when it comes at the precise time parents need it to understand their own children. Parents who experienced harsh discipline or other negative childhood experiences may need extra help to change the parenting patterns they learned as children.

A child or youth’s ability to interact positively with others, self-regulate their behavior and effec-
tively communicate their feelings has a positive impact on their relationships with their family, other adults, and peers. Challenging behaviors or delayed development create extra stress for families, so early identification and assistance for both parents and children can head off negative results and keep development on track.

Stories of Hope.

Learn more about stories of healing, hope and transformation from our Community of Hope voices, clients and partners

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Three years ago, Community of Hope opened our first in-house pharmacy — making it easier for patients to get the medications they need without additional barriers. Since then, the pharmacy has become a trusted part of care, offering convenience, savings, and a team that treats every patient with individualized support. 

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This month Community of Hope recognized our 45 year anniversary! Forty-five years ago, on September 12, 1980, Community of Hope was signed into existence. What began with a single housing site and a small health clinic at 1417 Belmont Street in Columbia Heights has grown into a support system for thousands of families across Washington, DC. 

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For years, Ms. Gwen prayed for something many of us might take for granted — a full smile. While she had a partial smile with her top teeth, she couldn’t complete it with bottom teeth because dentures were far too expensive.

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For Charles, a proud Ward 8 native, living with high blood pressure once felt overwhelming. “My blood pressure was through the roof,” he recalls. “I was eating okay but not like I should. I wasn’t managing things the way I needed to.

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For 18-year-old Tabatha Gore, this August marks a moment she’s worked toward for years: she’s starting her first semester at North Carolina A&T State University. She’s a first-generation college student with  a scholarship from the Pearl and Ivy Foundation (Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, DC Chapter). But behind her accomplishment is a powerful story of caring for her mom, her personal determination, and the support of Community of Hope. 

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When you meet Jalisa Settles, her warmth and determination shine through instantly. She speaks with the strength of someone who has overcome challenges and is now building a healthier future for her family with the help of Community of Hope’s WIC program. 

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For over 13 years, Darene has called the Bellevue community ”home.” Just a short walk away she found a place that would become her emotional anchor: the Bellevue Family Success Center at Community of Hope. Here she found a support system that carried her through some of life’s toughest chapters. 

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Before anything else, April will tell you this about her home: “It’s my safe space."    Today, she and her 14-year-old son have a peaceful home of their own — a quiet place to rest, recharge, and prepare for what’s next. For her son, it’s a solid place to grow and get ready for high school. For April, it’s the foundation that allowed her to grow and focus on new goals. 

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At 67 years old, Tonie Sanders is enjoying the rhythm of retirement and again learning what it means to lead with a smile. Tonie has proudly lived in the District all his life — just a block and a half from Community of Hope, where he has received health care for the past five years. 

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When Tarkeina thinks back to her early days of motherhood, one word comes to mind: disconnected. Before she ever set foot in Community of Hope, she was navigating the complex world of health care and breastfeeding with uncertainty and without the guidance she wanted. "I felt disconnected.” As a new mother and a Black woman, she didn’t feel fully supported in her health or her breastfeeding journey. That sense of isolation shifted when her mother, Tarkeina Thorne a patient at Community of Hope, introduced her to the care and community she had been missing.