About Project H.O.P.E.

Project H.O.P.E.
is  a project to uplift the women, children, and families in the Little Rock Midtown community
focusing on ​Health, Opportunities, Peace and Empowerment.

Our Focus

•  Health Low birth weight babies, teen pregnancies, teenage mothers, maternal depression, uninsured and under insured, substance abuse, homeless, and poverty in the city. 

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•  Opportunity Education is key to providing opportunities for success. Opportunity will be provided  through job training, including developing a resume, completing applications, earning a GED or specialty certifications.

• Peace  Abuse is the primary cause of an individual’s failure to succeed. Spousal abuse, child abuse and neglect, substance abuse, mental abuse, and verbal abuse all contribute to low self-esteem and low self-worth, creating a threatening environment and unhappiness.  

•  Empowerment comes when obstacles that hinder success and promote wholesome family relations are removed, i.e. dependence on others for physical, financial, emotional and moral support.  Empowerment comes through EDUCATION and deliberate action.

Our Goals

To be in mission witnessing Christ to women, children and families in our community and the city.

To create, through the renovation of the Theressa Hoover Memorial United Methodist Church  facility, a space  for  women, children, and families.

To develop assessment tools to identify their specific needs.

​To create a pool of resources, both community and monetary, that will fulfill their needs, especially children.

To develop programs to fulfill the needs of women, children, and families.

To provide intergenerational experiences that will support healthy living.

To develop a place filled with the Spirit of Christ, where all are welcome and safe

The Weekend Feeding Program

The Weekend Food Program provides individual servings of food for Saturdays and Sundays or when school is not in session to thirty or more children at Stephens Elementary School in Little Rock, Arkansas.  This school is located in the most depressed zip code in the state where the majority of families live who are identified as impoverished.  The children are members of families who are homeless, live in shelters, or identified as residing in homes with food insecurities.    

When families have to make choices of food and nutrition or paying for living expenses or medical care they are identified as food insecure families.  

Usually, food bags are packed on Thursdays and delivered to the school in preparation for distribution to students in their backpacks on Fridays. 

Teachers and school staff have recorded improved attendance, higher participation in class and less lethargy, which has been attributed to the Weekend Food Program.