ABOUT HOUSE OF HELP CITY OF HOPE

 

Program

            Our Program is a six-month LEVEL III residential treatment program.  We serve those suffering from alcohol or drug dependencies in need of a more structured environment to stimulate and maintain the recovery process.  The goal is to assist the client with accepting and adjusting to the reality of having a chronic disease while introducing the basic principles and building blocks for living an abstinent lifestyle using the community approach.

 

Mission Statement

            House of Help City of Help is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization with over 10 years of community expertise in meeting the District resident’s needs.  We have been and continue to be focused on the consumers needs in regards to cultural, spiritual, and social education and development.  It is the mission of the House of Help City of Hope to serve the undeserved.  We here at the House of Help City of Hope value the pledge that souls are our number one priority.

 

House of Help City of Hope Overview

Kingdom Village: A 501(c)(3) non-profit, faith-based 90-day transitional women’s shelter and certified clinical treatment facility offering career, mental health, and battered women’s counseling, parenting classes, with a daycare/future-Montessori program, K-12 academic support for children and GED program. Located in Suitland, Maryland in Prince George’s County, it has the capacity to house 150 women and children.

 

Kingdom City: A 501(c)(3) non-profit, faith-based men’s shelter and certified clinical drug treatment facility, offering mental health, anger management, life skills, job preparation, job placement assistance, parenting and GED programs located at 11100 Billingsley Rd, Waldorf, MD 20602, Charles County, MD. Capacity: 300 men; Target program completion date - 6 months; with ongoing reintegration support.

Graceview Apartments: Safe and affordable transitional housing (1 and 2 bedroom apartments) for up to 42 homeless families, who have completed a structured life-skills program to help them transition into mainstream life, located at 2322 16th Street, SE Washington, DC 20020; with optional participation in the Homeless to Home Ownership Program, with the prospect of becoming first-time homebuyers.

 

House of Help City of Hope Program Offerings and/or Programs Under Development:
1. Certified Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Counseling
2. Transitional Housing

3. Battered Women’s Shelter and Counseling

4. Mental Health Counseling

5. Parenting Skills Training and Marriage Counseling

6. Anger Management Counseling
7. Job Preparation and Job Placement Assistance
8.  K-12 Academic Support
9.  Daycare and Future-Montessori Programs
10. GED Program
11. Faith-based Ministry Gifts Development
12. Academic Tutoring
13. Computer Literacy (Under Development)

14. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Education Initiative (Under Development)

15. Health, Physical Education and Dietary Counseling (Under Development)

16. Arts and Humanities Talent Development Program

17. Homeless to Home Ownership Program

18. Mentor Youth in High-Crime Area

19. Adult Literacy, Continuing Education Community College and 4-year-college Initiative (Under Development)
 

Unique Aspects of House of Help City of Hope:
1. One of the few, if only programs in the nation that accepts whole families into the program when one member in the family is accepted into treatment.
2. Daycare and K-12 access to service the educational needs of the children whose parent may be in the program.
3. The focus of our community centers is to reach and mentor youth in high-crime areas in a wholesome and safe setting
4. Multidisciplinary mental health treatment modalities

5. Homelessness-to-Home Ownership Program

6. Classes in Visual and Performing Arts

7. 24hr/day 365days/year faith-based facility that has been in existence for nearly two decades

8. Over 60,000 individuals served who come from all segments of society and all walks of life

9. Five-year Life-Development Plan

10. House of Help City of Hope has a recidivism rate of 15-25% compared to the national average of 30-59% for drug court graduates and as compared to a 75-80% recidivism rate for those not participating in any structured program, according to a June 2008 research report commissioned by the Virginia Drug Treatment Court Advisory Committee: Planning and Development Subcommittee.

11. Program Graduate Business Enterprise Development Support

12. High School Diploma Completion Program

13: Five-year reintegration program for ex-offenders

 

 

Future endeavours projected within the next 2 years:

• Learning Life Leadership Academy which provides academic achievement to grades K-12

• Kingdom Village houses: the Kingdom Tots daycare and Kingdom Future Montessori program.

• From Homelessness to Home-Ownership Program

• Kingdom Cleaning Service

• Kingdom Auto Repair