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The latest news from the Hope Center!
We Won!
We’re honored to announce that the Aging Out Institute awarded The Hope Center at Pullen a 2022 Flame Award for providing outstanding services to young adults aging out of foster care.
HCP Participant Kunthea Dickson Shares Her Story
The biggest change is I am now the person I dreamed I could be, I can walk right past someone I knew from my past and they would not recognize me today. I talk different, walk different, think differently, and represent myself in a way that makes me proud of myself.
CBS-17 Selects HCP as June 2022 Non-Profit Partner
The CBS-17 Storm Team selected HCP as its June 2022 Non-Profit Partner for the 3-Degree Guarantee. CBS-17 and Michael & Son joined forces to donate
HCP on WRAL
In May, WRAL featured HCP’s work helping former foster youth find housing in this market. Quick takeaway: Renters must show that their income is 3x
2021 Raising Hope Recap
Raising Hope was an amazing night. Our youth bravely shared their stories of being in foster care and how your support is allowing them to
Q: How Are Wake County’s Former Foster Youth Doing in 2020?
A: They are defying the odds. 100% of the clients we housed two years ago are still living in safe, stable housing. At a time
HCP Featured in Walter Magazine
Walter Magazine selects HCP as a charity to support.
2020 Virtual Raising Hope
https://vimeo.com/469852921 Check out our Virtual Raising Hope TikTok video! The Hope Center hosted our first ever Virtual Raising Hope on April 23, 2020. Click here to
Striving For Equity in the Foster Care System
Children of Black, Hispanic, and Native American parents are more likely to enter foster care than their white peers. Nationally 33% of kids in foster care
“The hardest part of aging out was molding myself to self-independence. Learning to go look for jobs, that was the big thing, looking for houses, I’m still thrown for a loop on that. Looking for jobs, basically figuring out where I’m going to lay my head at…those were the two things I knew I had to get up on ASAP. When I aged out I stayed in my car, lived at a friend’s house, and I was homeless for 4 months. I didn’t like it. I always told myself that I put myself in this situation, but I still didn’t like it one bit.”
The Hope Center helps our participants find the safe, stable housing they deserve upon aging out so that these young people can continue to focus on their education, employment and their health–all essential pieces to being able to live independent, healthy lives.
“The hardest part of aging out was molding myself to self-independence. Learning to go look for jobs, that was the big thing, looking for houses, I’m still thrown for a loop on that. Looking for jobs, basically figuring out where I’m going to lay my head at…those were the two things I knew I had to get up on ASAP. When I aged out I stayed in my car, lived at a friend’s house, and I was homeless for 4 months. I didn’t like it. I always told myself that I put myself in this situation, but I still didn’t like it one bit.”
The Hope Center helps our participants find the safe, stable housing they deserve upon aging out so that these young people can continue to focus on their education, employment and their health–all essential pieces to being able to live independent, healthy lives.