Meet The
Harvest of Hope Life Enrichment Center
Our Focus: We focus on people flourishing, developing their capabilities, nurturing their talents and growth, building on their strengths, and helping them reach their potential and contribute positively to society.
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Who We Serve: Our organization works with the underserved, marginalized, vulnerable, and disadvantaged populations that have a limited ability to access all the needed resources that will impact their lives to become thriving citizens.
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Our Services: We have 7 programs that directly impact people's lives, and when we do not address them as a whole, many of the positive outcomes could delay their growth to opportunities to flourish.
The 7 Programs
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Youth Program
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Homelessness Program
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Entrepreneurial Education Program
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Money Management & Financial Literacy Program
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Reading Literacy Program
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Mentoring Program
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A Pathway 2 Homeownership Program
Youth Program:
Teach Us & Watch Us Grow
We help children become well-rounded in the three critical areas that impact their future success most.
These 3 critical areas:
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To provide sound-based educational learning that will guide their love for learning through reading, writing, science, math, and critical thinking.
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To develop their social-emotional skills, make decisions skills, become self-aware of their abilities to thrive in life, and like building relationships to work with others in the team.
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To provide soft skills, including getting organized, managing impulses, and staying focused.
Our programs are all about setting children up for success in school and in life!
Homelessness Program: Leave No Person Behind
We specialize in three different types of homeless populations. They are veterans, youth, and women with children.
Every year in the United States, over 3 million children experience homeless. Many of these children are from single mothers. The children are 9 times more likely to repeat a grade and 7 times more likely to attempt suicide as a youth because 47% suffer from anxiety, depression, drugs, and withdrawals. Poverty and homelessness are complex problems. It requires an integrated approach that must include reaching beyond their immediate needs. We use coordination of local and state resources that bring communities together to help our veterans, youth, and women with children experiencing homelessness regain their independence and their dignity.
We provide one-one- coaching in a safe and secure environment to identify all their needs and match them with resources from housing, job opportunities, educational learning for adults and children, food, clothes, transportation, helping veterans receive their benefits and health treatments, and soft skills.
Entrepreneurial Education: Business Success Starts Here
Inclusive entrepreneurship education, and equitable access to economic opportunities. Providing valuable learning opportunities that will enhance your business from idea to a thriving business.
We provide access to tools, experiences and resources needed to become successful in business. They will be introduce to an entrepreneurial growth mindset, skill acquisition and prototyping for businesses. Each entrepreneur will learn how to discover and visualize their great idea and turn it into a profitable enterprise. They will cover all aspects of creating, starting and running their own
successful business.
We will guide them as they think through and write their own business plan. We provide an accountability process throughout the process and technical assisting on
going.
Money Management and Financial Literacy: Closing The Financial Wealth Gap
We will provide workshops, seminars, and training to educate the adults and youth on the importance of having a financial knowledge base for wealth building. This
will include personal financial management, budgeting, and investing that will help them develop a financially sustainable life.
We will help each person understand and effectively use various money management. Financial literacy is the foundation of your relationship with money and is a lifelong learning journey. We provide long-term accountability and technical assistance to each person.
Reading Literacy: Discovering The World Through Reading
Our literacy program contains all the components for adults and children to master reading and writing. Our goal is to distribute new books to children who, for economic reasons, have little or no access to books. To reduce the number of hours watching TV and on technology that does not develop their minds. We have an open-door approach where children cannot access the library. They have the opportunity to join through our hybrid model of reading and learning. Adults will have the chance to advance their love for reading by visiting our program, which focuses on adult literacy.
Mentoring Program 4 U: Everyone Needs One
Mentoring is a proven approach to drive rich learning and career development for mentees and mentors. Mentoring also benefits the organization by improving knowledge transferred to others, increasing leadership in diversity, and creating a more supportive and inclusive environment.
We provide the following attributes in our mentoring program: communication skills, creative problem-solving, critical thinking skills, digital literacy and knowledge, leadership skills, executive function, and decision-making skills transferable from one generation to the next.
A Pathway 2 Homeownership
We believe housing is a human right, integral to self-worth and dignity. Getting and keeping people housed is the first step to ending homelessness. Sometimes, providing prevention services, including temporarily paying rent to avoid eviction (or other expenses), is critical to keep homelessness numbers from increasing.
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Our affordable housing consists of the following:
We will provide educational workshops and training to citizens in housing. We will work with low-income citizens and people living in substandard housing to offer them a better life equity for their well-being, mental and physical, to a safe and secure home from homeownership to renovation.
We recognize systematically disadvantaged populations, areas, and facilities as those for which the social conditions in which people are born and live and age do not ensure opportunities for all.
We help youth better prepared to transition into adulthood and their families build skills, access counseling and supportive resources, and find paths to success. We promote an inclusive, high-trust, multi-cultural environment and a growth mindset. We engage rigorously and justly in meaningful, high-quality work that positively impacts people's lives. Our organization focuses on shared goals and priorities resources for excellence and for the good of all people.