Service & Ministries at Providence - Hope Haven
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| Hope Haven opened in 1977 to provide life skills for chemically dependent adults and families within a supportive residential environment leading to independence. This future independence is the result of vocational training options that include catering, commercial laundry, food services, horticulture, and maintenance. After completion of a one or two year program, 100% of residents have a job and permanent housing. One year after having left Hope Haven, 85-92% of members in the aftercare program remain substance-free and sober. While on campus, residents not only develop skills, but produce revenue for Hope Haven by providing services to the community at-large, including doing laundry for other local non-profit agencies. Family unity is encouraged with provision of an apartment for a spouse and children to live with a client. The presence of Hope Haven has reduced crime in the immediate area. Located in a former motel, the eleven and a half acre Villages of Hope Haven have a child center, commercial greenhouse, commercial kitchen, laundry and dry cleaning facility, and the James C. Thompson Chapel, named in honor of PUMC member and longtime member of the Hope Haven Board, who served as Chairman of the Board, before becoming a member of the Hope Haven Foundation Board of Directors. Other PUMC members have been, or still are, Hope Haven volunteers. Mecklenburg County, HUD, United Way, foundations, and private donations provide funding for Hope Haven. | |
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