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Hope House of McAlester Inc.

Hope House of McAlester Inc.

Hope House is a faith based homelessness recovery shelter for women and their children.

📣 A Home for Hope Campaign 🏡💙hopehousemcalester.us/give/ CLICK HERE TO DONATEThis November, we’re launching our "A Home for Hope" campaign with a BIG goal—raising $5,000 to support the amazing programs at Hope House McAlester!Every dollar raised helps provide vital support to our clients, including: 🚕 KATS tickets for transportation 💊 Medication for those in need 📝 Birth certificates and bus tickets to assist with essential documentation and travel 🏋️‍♀️ A health and wellness program with a trainer who works out with us 3x a week 📚 Books for our Boundaries class, empowering clients to build a better future.Together, we can make a difference! Please join us in creating lasting change by donating and sharing our mission with others. Let’s bring hope to those who need it most. 💪✨Stay tuned for inspiring stories, donor spotlights, and updates throughout the month. Let’s build a brighter tomorrow, one step at a time! 🌟#AHomeForHope #GiveBack #HopeHouseMcAlester #SupportHope #MakeADifference See MoreSee Less
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🚨 BIG announcement coming tomorrow at 10 AM! 🚨For the entire month of November, we’re giving you an incredible opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of those in need. 💙 Stay tuned for how YOU can help support Hope House of McAlester and give back to our community in a meaningful way. 🙌✨Get ready to make an impact! Tomorrow at 10 AM – don’t miss it! #HopeHouseMcAlester #GiveBack #CommunityImpact #StayTuned #AHomeForHope See MoreSee Less
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📢 Important Information for Those Seeking Shelter at Hope House 📢At Hope House, we’re here to provide safe shelter and support for women and children in crisis. But before someone can come to our shelter, we require a crisis call to ensure we have availability and can provide the right services. Dropping someone off without a call may not guarantee entry, as we may be at capacity.Please remember: • Hope House is not a detox center, drug rehab, or mental health facility. • We offer a structured program that requires participants to be physically and mentally able to engage fully.If you or someone you know needs support, please call us first. Our team is here to help you find the best path forward. Thank you for understanding!918-423-4673 See MoreSee Less
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“Today, our shelter is filled with tiny superheroes, princesses, and creative costumes of all kinds! Halloween brings a bit of magic and fun for the children here, a chance to enjoy the excitement of trick-or-treating in a safe, caring environment. Every child deserves moments of joy and laughter, no matter their circumstances. Thank you to everyone who has donated costumes, treats, and decorations to make this day special. Wishing you all a Happy Halloween, and a reminder that even the smallest acts of kindness can make a big difference!” 🎃 #HalloweenAtTheShelter #EveryKidDeserves See MoreSee Less
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Hope House of McAlester volunteering at LSC Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader fundraiser for the DR Terry Shaw Scholarship. Love our community ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ See MoreSee Less
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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.

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.

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!