Fam-Club
Support families overcoming homelessness and give back to your local community! Help lead fun activities, games, and crafts with the residents at our Washington, DC short-term housing sites: Girard Street (Ward 1) The Aya (Ward 6) and The Triumph (Ward 8).
Volunteer With Hope
Join Fam-Club to spread some joy to children and parents staying at our family shelters, The Aya, Girard Street, and The Triumph. Fam-Club volunteers help give families the time, space, and place to play and be creative during their housing transition.
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Join our Fam-Club team at The Aya, Girard Street, or The Triumph by leading fun activities, reading, and playing with children and families during dinnertime. We welcome individuals as well as groups of up to six volunteers.
Location:
The Triumph
4225 6th Street SE
Washington, DC 20032
The Triumph
4225 6th Street SE
Washington, DC 20032
Minimum Age: 14
Volunteer Times: Wednesdays & Thursdays; 5:30-8:00pm
Location:
The Aya
850 Delaware Avenue SW
Washington, DC 20024
Minimum Age: 14
The Aya
850 Delaware Avenue SW
Washington, DC 20024
Minimum Age: 14
Volunteer Times: Mondays & Tuesdays; 5:30-8:00pm
Location:
Girard Street
1413 Girard Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
Washington, DC 20009
Minimum Age: 14
Volunteer Times: Tuesdays; 5:30-8pm
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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When Tatiauna reflects on where she was just a year ago, the difference today is powerful. She credits stable housing as the foundation that made every other shift in her life possible.
At the time, she and her two children were facing significant challenges and instability. For months, they experienced homelessness—moving from place to place, doing what Tatiauna describes as “pillow to post.”
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Anthony is the proud father of two children: Aria, his almost 15-year-old daughter, and AJ, his baby boy who will turn one in August. His journey into fatherhood began while he was still figuring life out, but it was also where he first discovered the meaning of responsibility, love, and purpose.
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James has been a patient at Community of Hope since 2010. Back then, he was just looking for a new provider. What he found was something harder to name — a place that kept showing up for him through prediabetes, high blood pressure, and years of managing his health one appointment at a time.
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Grace had to make a decision no mother wants to face. With three young children, ages six, five, and one, she left an unsafe relationship and went to the Virginia Williams Family Resource Center, with almost nothing. They connected her to Community of Hope. She was 34, pregnant with her fourth child, and starting over from scratch.
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A Washington, DC native chef, wife, and mother of two who is also helping raise her 16-year-old brother, Laurencia was intentional about her birth experience from the start. Having had a natural birth before, she knew she wanted the same again and chose Community of Hope for its birth center, supportive care, and proximity to home.
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Since October 2025, Ella has been a regular presence in Community of Hope’s Fam-Club program, often volunteering one to two days a week. She spends her time playing games, coloring, and building relationships with children and families staying in our shelters.
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Today, Arica has built a stable life for her family—something she fought hard to achieve. But 22 years ago, when she found out she was pregnant with twins, she was facing housing instability.
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What brought Markesha to Community of Hope was simple: A dream to have a water birth, but what has kept Markesha connected has been a circle of support.
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This Women’s History Month, we recognize the women whose work and generosity make Community of Hope’s mission possible
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When Vernada, a mom of four, left Charlotte, North Carolina, she was focused on one thing—keeping her family safe.
