During a stay at Hope House, each woman and child is given safe shelter, staff and peer support, and a family focused environment. Each woman receives assistance in finding employment and/or establishing her children in school or childcare and is guided through the processes of securing permanent housing and transportation. Hope House staff members serve as advocates to ensure every family receives social services and benefits essential to their new start to happy and healthy lives. Hope House provides dependable transportation to school, work, interviews, and appointments vital to establishing a new way of life.
Strong Women Banquet 2025
Join us on April 24th for our annual strong women banquet.
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Hope House of McAlester Inc.
Hope House is a faith based homelessness recovery shelter for women and their children.
We have a full house to day! It gets kinda crazy 🤪 but a good crazy. ![]()
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You should see the look on their faces when I tell them we workout 3 days a week. First they try and get out of it. After about a week they start asking me if Zella is going to be here because they are looking forward to it. ![]()
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It’s not about losing weight. It’s about building their confidence and dealing with stress and anxiety. ![]()
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Had a great birthday 🎂 party this weekend! He loved his fishing pole. So grateful for our amazing community always stepping up and helping us with birthdays for ours kids at Hope House. ![]()
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Woohoo 🎊 it’s time for Hope House annual Ladies Luncheon!!! 200 seats available. Sponsorship opportunities. Be ready to be inspired and uplifted! Great food and a great time!!
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Hope House is excited to continue our membership with Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits! ![]()
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They have been a guiding force in helping with all the behind to e scene things we do like professional development, board governance, fundraising, and HR.![]()
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As the director of Hope House I know I still have so much to learn. Just making sure we are the best we can be for Hope House.![]()
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I have a feeling it’s going to be a great day at Hope House! We have new clients and we are excited to be able to help them. We are excited to see what God has in store for them because you know it’s going to be good. 😊
Our Mission
Hope House of McAlester is a private, faith-based supportive shelter program that assists women and their children in breaking the cycle of homelessness. In addition to providing safe shelter, Hope House also provides a sense of stability, recovery support, job search assistance, transportation assistance, life-skills training, specialized classes, family reunification, and many more resources that empower women and their children for long-term, life-changing success!
Rescuing women from homelessness
According to a nationwide survey, more than 216,000 women are homeless on any given night in the United States.
85% of homeless families are headed by single women with children under 18. These women are often solely responsible for supporting the family financially as well as caring for the children. Without adequate access to transportation, affordable childcare, and a proper support system, the barriers a woman faces in maintaining employment and establishing a stable home become insurmountable and can lead to an endless cycle of homelessness. For children in these families, homelessness and the associated disruptions can have profound impacts on their life trajectories.
Studies indicate that children who do not have a consistent place to call home:
- Are sick at twice the rate of other children
- Go hungry twice as often as sheltered children
- Experience twice the rate of learning disabilities and are twice as likely to repeat a grade
- Have three times the rate of emotional and behavioral problems of non-homeless children
- Are substantially more likely to be separated or removed from their custodial parents, which is a predictor of future homelessness in adults
Building Hope
The programs at Hope House are designed to assist women and their children in healing and reclaiming their lives, building a foundation for a safe, secure, and better way of life, and truly breaking the cycle of homelessness. Because we believe in a long-term approach to ending homelessness, the length of stay of our residents is very individualized. The average stay for a resident at Hope House is 4 – 6 months.
Growing stability
Hope House recently partnered with two other local organizations, Shared Blessings and Rebuilding Together Kiamichi Country, to establish transitional housing opportunities for some of the women who successfully complete the Hope House program and are able to pay a reduced rent. In November of 2019, the first transitional housing residents moved into a rental home of their own. They will continue to pay a reduced rent for 12-18 months, enabling them to save for a more permanent future and end the cycle of homelessness for themselves and their children.
Hope House of McAlester is committed to ending child and family homelessness in our community, one family at a time!