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Children continue to be the most fragile and completely innocent victims of the AIDS epidemic. None of them are even remotely aware that a devastating disease threatens their lives and futures. Most of the children eligible for enrollment at Hope House are in a highly disadvantaged and at-risk environment.
Each day they are surrounded by poverty, crime, and drug infestation due to their geographic locations within the city's poorest communities. Not only are they dealing with the circumstances of poverty but also life in a household that is plagued with sickness and secrecy.
Recent Shelby County Health Department statistics indicate that the number of women infected with the HIV virus continues to grow. Five years ago, women in Shelby County represented 22% of the area's HIV population - recent demographics now show them at 28%. Most startling of all is that 93% of these women are African-American. Because of the unique situations many of our children are in, Hope House has to provide care that is designed to go beyond traditional day care.
At Hope House, we:

Ensure, from the start, that our children are ready to learn, physically and emotionally.

Set high expectations for every child, monitor the child's progress continually, and intervene quickly when problems arise.

Create high-quality, varied learning environments that support each child's learning and emotional development.

Provide quality professional development to those directly responsible for children's education and development.

Actively engage parents in their children's education and emotional stability at home.

Accept responsibility and accountability for our children's healthy emotional development.

Make efficient, equitable use of resources for children's emotional well being.

Collaborate closely with other organizations or programs that could positively affect our children's emotional well being.

 
Our children receive:

Love, affection and attention not so often given at home.

Direct interaction with others as opposed to sitting in front of a television all day.

A functional, adequate, and safe enclosed playground for healthy imaginative play.

Positive reinforcement for successes and accomplishments.

The foundation to form a positive self-image

And we encourage parents to use alternative discipline vs. physical punishment.
Mission
Our mission is to improve the quality of life of HIV-impacted children and their families by addressing their educational, social, psychological and health needs.

Objectives
Our objectives are to:
Provide therapeutic day care, respite care and 24-hour emergency care in a safe, loving environment to children infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. Provide supportive social services to children and their families in order to enhance the quality of their lives. Collaborate with other community resources to insure the children's and their families' needs are met. Prepare pre-school children for entry into kindergarten. Educate the Memphis community about HIV/AIDS to prevent the disease from spreading and to eliminate the stigmatization facing Hope House children and their families. Assist the parents in obtaining education and employment in order to remove them from dependency and to offer them a vision of economic choices for a fulfilling life.

Vision
Hope House will be a catalyst for change in the lives of HIV impacted preschool-aged children and their families to facilitate positive life-long changes.
Because no child should live without hope...

Hope for Families for Life Phase II is a community information outreach project to improve information access for communities affected by HIV/AIDS. Learn more about this important  project.
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In accordance with Federal Law and U.S. Department of Agriculture, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability.
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