Downtown Soup Kitchen

Feed Me Hope Culinary Arts and Feeding Program:Culinary-16 week culinary arts job training. This program provides the opportunity for homeless and disadvantaged men and women to achieve self-sufficiency through life skills, job traning and employment in the food service industry. Also includes, Feed Me Hope Bakery Job Training which offers women from the shelter the opportunity to develop skills they need to effectively operate a fully functioning bakery, in which they fill many orders on a daily basis to local establishments. 90% of students have jobs lined up upon graduation. In addition, the program has a trauma counseling and recovery component. Lunch program-Serves over 300-500 individuals a warm meal 7 days a week. Food is donated by community partners or provided at vastly reduced prices through local food banks. During the year, the lunch program served over 110,000 hot meals to food insecure and homeless individuals.

Suite Hope is Downtown Hope Centers Transitional and Student Housing Program. Currently 5 students and 13 graduates for the Feed Me Hope Culinary Arts and Feeding Program live in the facility and are employed by Downtown Hope Center.

Womens shelter-provide a warm, healthy and secure place to sleep up to seventy (70) women each night. Women are offered a healthy, balanced meal each night and breakfast each morning. They have the opportunity to shower and have their laundry done. In addition, the women residing in our shelter received 3 meals each day for a total of 76,650 meals in our womens shelter.

Shower house: provides warm showers and laundry service 5 days a week. A clothing room provides fresh, clean clothing from donated items 5 days a week. 3,082 showers were provided, along with 2856 loads of laundry, and 11,296 people were provided clothing during the fiscal year. Mailroom service was provided for over 400 individuals.