Project Hope Foundation

To promote inclusion and expand potential, we provide a variety of classroom opportunities thorugh our Hope academy program, including inclusion classrooms where children with autism learn side-by-side with typical peers in a mainstream classroom; autism-specific classrooms that focus on academics as well as building self-help, communication, and community skills; behavioral classrooms that focus on self-help and community interaction skills; and computer-based classrooms that enable students with autism to earn a diploma without the organization and social stresses of mainstream classrooms. This program serves approximately 85 students in pre-k through high school classrooms.

Through our support programs, we educate families, caregivers, and the community on how to identify autism, how to most effectively cope with the challenges of autism, and how to facilitate the inclusion of individuals with autism. Through our youth and adult education programs, we target functional academic skills, expand life skills, develop broader interests, facilitate vocational skills and opportunities, and provide access to a broader range of life experiences. These programs support all aspects of our mission to help families, open minds, promote inclusions, and expand potential.

To open minds and expand potential, we provide 25-40 hours per week of intensive one-on-one education in our Hope reach program. Using applied behavior analysis (aba) techniques, strategies, and structures, we focus on language, behavioral, social, and cognitive skills designed to help children to maximize their potential. Hope reach provides these services to about 135 children.

Additional program service expenses come from various events and needs of the organization.