Community of Hope provides direct services in healthcare, housing, and educational support to meet the needs of homeless and low-income families and individuals in Washington, DC. We help change lives with our holistic range of programs that offer stability and hope to those who need it the most. A summary of each of Community of Hope’s three core services are listed below.

Health Services

Community of Hope delivers quality care with compassion and respect regardless of a patient’s ability to pay. Our health clinic in the Adams Morgan neighborhood provides primary medical, dental and mental healthcare to nearly 4,000 patients annually.

Our Impact in 2010:

• Served over 3,700 patients in close to 13,300 visits
• 84% of two-year-olds had all of their immunizations.
• 80% of sampled diabetic patients had controlled blood sugar levels.
• 61% of sampled patients with hypertension had controlled blood pressure.

Housing and Supportive Services for Homeless Families with Children

There are around 800 homeless families with children in the District of Columbia. Community of Hope currently provides housing services to well over 200 families, including about 400 children, in temporary, transitional and permanent housing with a range of supportive services. Community of Hope’s strategic goal is to end homelessness for families in DC.

In 2010, Community of Hope focused its efforts to help families experiencing homelessness in three main areas: housing stability, increasing income, and fostering family stability and strength.

Our Impact in 2010:

• 279 families, including 414 children, received housing with supportive services.
• 97% of families moved out of Community of Hope’s temporary and transitional housing into more stable permanent housing
• The Home Now permanent supportive housing program housed 113 families in apartments around the city. 100% of these highly vulnerable families are still in their homes over a year later.

In December 2009, Community of Hope launched its Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program (HPRP). The program, funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, was designed to prevent families and individuals from becoming homelessness, and to immediately re-house families already in the emergency shelter system.
 

To date:
• 56 families were prevented from becoming homeless.
• 52 families have been re-housed thanks to short-term financial assistance. All receive supportive services from Community of Hope.

Educational Opportunities, Family Stability, and Spiritual Support

Children who are homeless traditionally are behind in school. Studies have shown frequent moving such as that created by homelessness can reduce the chances of high school graduation by more than 50%. Community of Hope’s educational services help children and their families get the tools they need to beat those odds and leave homelessness and poverty behind. They range from tutoring, mentoring and other after-school activities for the kids, to parenting and life skills courses for the parents.

Our Impact in 2010:

• 414 children in our housing programs served, providing them and their parents with advocacy in the schools, connections to after-school programs and tutors, and fun, safe activities on the weekends.
• 100% of the families remained intact.
• 86 %of the 147 school –aged children in our housing programs advanced to the next grade level

Download our most recent Fact Sheet here. This two page PDF gives you a quick overview of Community of Hope's services and ten ways to get involved.

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