Program areas at Focus: HOPE
The focus: hope food program is one of the nations largest commodity supplemental food programs for low income senior citizens. Each month, it distributes food to approximately 41,000 senior citizens with a minimal number of women & children through its three distribution centers and one central warehouse. The program assists residents of wayne, oakland, macomb and washtenaw counties and is administered through the u.s. department of agriculture.
Focus: hopes early learning programs operating at the center for children and new paradigm glazer academy, offers quality child care in an education environment for infants and children up to age five. Focus: hope offers early head start/ head start (birth to five) along with the great start readiness program and other early childhood preschool education programs. The programs serve the children in the community who meet head start or great start readiness program requirements. Additionally, through a community-based doula program, it provides non-medical peer support for low income pregnant mothers.
Since 1981, workforce development education job training focus: hope has graduated 15,000 students to date from our career programs. Our education and workforce development programs prepare individuals for success with a holistic approach to individuals looking to jump start their careers.
Each of focus: hopes core program areas are tied together by a range of empowerment initiatives designed to develop community leadership and promote economic prosperity of program participants as focus: hope engages in advocacy toward equitable systems change. These initiatives consists economic empowerment offerings, youth leadership as activism and of a mix of anti-racism discussions and activities engaging colleagues along with the public.