HOUSING
H.O.P.E. is the acronym for this
What is Homeless Outreach for Personal Empowerment
These are homeless women that are/can work 35+ hours each week, test negative for drugs, and are willing to follow the program rules.
Who can be admitted to HOPE Village?
While living at HOPE Village this is the number of times each week that residents are expected to meet with their case manager or case worker.
What is once.
This is the average number of workshops the ladies are expected to attend each month.
What is 4?
She is the program director of HV.
Who is Dr. Megan Franco?
HOPE Village opened in this year.
What is 2009?
If someone calls The Salvation Army and is in need of housing we give them this main resource.
Who ya gonna call?
Call the Regional Housing Crisis Hotline at757-587-4202.
Currently the number of houses children can live in.
What is 3?
BONUS: What will the number be once construction is complete?
This is required of any client not working 35+ hours every week.
Who must attend employment workshops (huddle) at least 3 times every week, search for jobs, and submit job search logs weekly and find a job within 30 days?
This is seldom done by clients before they move out of HOPE Village.
Clean and vacuum the bedroom and common areas.
Bonus: Who usually completes these tasks?
This is the year HOPE Village added 4 buildings to the property (including a community center).
What is 2019?
Where many of our ladies come from.
What is The Union Mission?
This is the percentage of income that the ladies must save during their stay at HOPE Village.
What is 30% of all income.
Bonus: Why 30%?
This meeting is required bi-weekly of all ladies so they may be better prepared with money handling in the future.
What are budget meetings?
This is who the HOPE Village team relies on to maintain a successful program.
Who are: Donors (money, clothing, supplies)
Workshop presenters, volunteers
Each other, Maintenance Team, Finance Team, Social Services Team, Development Team, Leadership Team, HR?
This is currently the maximum number of women that can live at HOPE Village.
Bonus: What will this number be in 2020?
The maximum amount of time one can stay at HOPE Village.
What is 6 months?
This is what the ladies request most frequently.
What is laundry detergent, dish soap, TP, PT and bus passes.
These are the requirements for the program for each resident.
What is: Work 35+ hours each week. Save money.
Abide curfew, no visitors.
Attend all scheduled meetings and workshops on time.
Keep home clean and be energy efficient.
This is where you can find the staff at HV.
House A or in any house at any time or at trainings or meetings or at TSA or driving clients to meetings or interviews or taking the children on field trips.
This is the frequency in which home inspections are completed.
What is weekly?
Families are referred to HOPE Village from emergency shelters and employees from this Norfolk Department of Human Services program.
What is the Homeless Action and Response Team (HART)?
The number of children that can be housed in each family home?
What is 4?
BONUS: maximum number of children at HV at one time?
Extensive medical bills, physical disabilities, loss of job, mental disabilities, domestic violence, poor decision making, death in the family, devastating trauma or loss, legal battles, or combinations of these events.
What can cause a woman to need the services of HV?
This is the subject matter of any 2 of our 41 workshops offered in 2019.
What is: Money, Landlords and Tenants, Self-Defense, Spirituality, Nutrition, Flower Arranging, Jewelry Making, Forgiveness, Living Effectively, Vision Books, Getting Back to Me, Employment, etc.?