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Hope for Family Center keeps families together and focuses on children’s education, director says
Summary
Hope for Family Center’s executive director told student journalists that the nonprofit keeps families together during housing instability, that roughly 75–80% of shelter residents are children, and that most families show improved stability after 6–9 months in the program.
Marty, the executive director of Hope for Family Center, said the nonprofit’s central goal is to keep families together when they face housing instability and to provide the stability children need to stay engaged at school. "About 75 to 80% of the population of our shelter are children," Marty said, describing an after‑school routine of dinner, homework help in a reading room, and enrichment activities followed by outdoor play at the center’s expanded facility.
Why it matters: Families living without stable housing face barriers that can interrupt education and employment. Marty told student journalist Sofia Fotero that the…
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