Hope House, Inc. is a residential treatment facility that serves women 18 years and older who suffer from the disease of substance abuse and co-occurring mental health disorders. Hope House serves three populations of women: homeless single women, pregnant women, and women with children, many who are seeking to regain custody of their children.

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Hope House, Inc. is a residential treatment facility that serves women 18 years and older who suffer from the disease of substance abuse and co-occurring mental health disorders.  Hope House serves three populations of women: homeless single women, pregnant women, and women with children, many who are seeking to regain custody of their children.

 

News! Hope House is now a United Way agency.  We are proud to be associated with the United Way of the CSRA, Inc. and look forward to a long partnership with them. Read all about it on the United Way website or in the Augusta Chronicle.

Your donation helps us reunite families, ensure drug-free births, restore women to self-sufficiency, and save lives.  We've had nine healthy births, reunited 15 families, have 18 women in school or employed and have provided housing and services to 65 families.  With your help we can do even more in the New Year!

In-kind donations of clothing require that we sort and store these items.  Currently our clothing closet is full and we have a moratorium on clothing donations.  As the Salvation Army partners with us, providing our families with clothing vouchers as needed, we urge our supporters to donate there.  We appreciate your understanding!

John Deere Volunteers Tackled the Hill at Hope House

October 23, 2010

Volunteers from our local John Deere facility showed exactly what the company products could handle when they took on a hill here on campus that was not only badly eroded but also hard-packed sand and cement over clay.  So steep that some were slipping and sliding, the valiant group did not give up, but worked as a team, breaking ground, digging holes, applying soil and fertilizer and finally planting the junipers they donated.  They also put down weedcloth and pinestraw.  What a difference a day makes.  What a difference a caring group makes! Thank you.

Thanks also to Becky and Delwyn Peters for the wonderful composted chicken manure, much needed on our barren hillside, and to McCorkles Nursery for their patient assistance and discount.

Hope House Receives Funding for Freedom's Path

September 1, 2010

Hope House, Inc. has been awarded $ 391,185 from the Department of Veterans Affairs to renovate a historic building on the Charlie Norwood Veterans Administration Medical Center Campus in Augusta, GA. The former tuberculosis ward, built in 1923, will be renovated to provide transitional housing for 20 male veterans.  Additionally, these funds will be used for the acquisition of a van to provide outreach and transportation. Hope House will provide service coordination for the veterans relating to substance abuse disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder as well as other service-related disabilities. 

In May, Hope House cleared the first hurdle in its efforts to proceed with the project known as Freedom’s Path when the Augusta Commission allowed rezoning of the site.  Freedom’s Path will be accessed via the VA campus entrance on Wrightsboro Road as a condition of the rezoning.

Pending future funding, Freedom’s Path proposes to renovate a second historic structure, built in 1945, on the same campus. This renovation will create 50 units of permanent supportive housing with supportive services for veterans.

Developers of Freedom’s Path are Hope House, Inc., Affordable Housing Solutions, Inc., and Cooperative Resource Center, Inc.  Karen Saltzman, Executive Director of Hope House, says, “We are excited about this award, as it brings us a step closer in answering a critical need for our veterans.  This project is a result of a national initiative and months of hard work by the development team. Through the Enhanced Use Lease, Freedom’s Path will serve as a gold standard and act as a model for other communities wanting to use existing underutilized buildings on other VA properties.”

Stephanie Suarez, the Director of Development for Hope House, Inc., will be the project coordinator for Freedom’s Path.

It is anticipated that Freedom’s Path will be begin serving veterans in 2011.

See the WRDW newsclip on the project here. And read the story in the Augusta Chronicle here.

Smiling Faces, Helping Hands

August 15, 2010

Citizens of Georgia Power, a volunteer group of Georgia Power employees, showed up in force early one Saturday several weeks ago to help with the fall garden.  Just as work was to begin, the sky opened up and made all efforts impossible.  Not to be deterred, this valiant group came back as soon as Fall arrived, bearing classy garden tools and a flat of pansies for our children's bed.  They even brought bags of trick-or-treat candy for the little ones.  Thanks to Linda Goble, Wendy Brown, Brenda Wolfe, Brandee Holt and Mahi Majanovic.

This group also has provided Halloween for our children in the form of treat bags and Beanie Babies - and pumpkins!

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