By Lynn C. French | Executive Director
We Are On This Journey Together
Hope and a Home’s mission is to strengthen the fabric of each family it touches by offering the guidance and support needed for families to overcome obstacles and achieve their full potential.
We know that our parents want to be great parents and we know that effective parenting does not happen all at once. It is a process.
Hope and a Home is walking along side our parents as they journey to become great parents. Parenting is the most important work that we can do. Giving our children the nurturing, care and guidance to grow to be successful, productive and loving people is a goal for all of us.
Hope and a Home has embarked on The Parenting Journey. This is a curriculum that focuses on the emotional understanding of what it means to be a parent. The Journey begins each week with some ritual questions that focus on how we take care of ourselves because taking care of ourselves is critical to being able to take care of others.
Each week parents reflect on how they were parented and how that informs the parenting of their own children. Parents find their own path to self-awareness through self- reflection and insights into their own upbringing as well as reflecting on their own current parenting practices. Goal setting is a vital part of this process where parents seek to change unhealthy behaviors and set goals around developing new behaviors that make for a healthy family life.
Hope and a Home is journeying together each step of the way with our families. A key part of the Parenting Journey is that the case manager who works with the family answers the same questions that the parents are expected to answer. This deepens the relationship between the case manager and the parent and creates a safe space to explore experiences and create new paths to great parenting going forward.
Hope and a Home has a creed that we say together when we gather for our monthly family workshops. Part of our creed states that “We build on our strengths, ask for help when we need it, and offer aid to others when we can. We know that life can be difficult as well as joyous. We are here to learn from each other, to encourage each other, and to create a brighter future for us all. To these ideals we commit ourselves.”
We believe that all families can grow stronger and will contribute to the life of their community. We are on this journey together and we see a brighter future for us all.
By Lynn C. French | 'Tis The Season For Reading
By Lynn C. French | Executive Director
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