What is a New Hope Community Partner?

A Community Partner is an organization that:

  • Affirms the Hope Movement core values

  • Provides material support for our mission

The Bloomington Community and New Hope for Families:

A Partnership for Stable Housing, Healthy Children and a Stronger Community

Hear why our partners choose the New Hope movement

Family homelessess is a serious problem that harms our community.

  • Difficult to measure, but 2020 “Point In Time Count” estimates 39 families w/ 81 children experiencing homelessness in Monroe County

  • Linked to negative educational outcomes for children, limiting their opportunities for future success in school and in life

  • Causes a decline in personal health of each member of the family

  • Creates a public health problem for the entire community

  • Perpetuates a cycle of poverty

Together we can solve this. We invite Bloomington’s community leaders to join “the hope movement!”

New Hope for Families works with our generous community partners to provide the solutions we need

  • Helping families find their path to stable housing

  • Unique combination of emergency shelter and critical services

  • Accredited childcare helps parents get back to work

  • Compassionate and evidence-based model

  • Unduplicated program

  • Exceptional results

Measuring success:

  • About 80% of the families who stay in our shelter move on to stable housing after they leave. This compares to the state average of 52%.

  • More than 90% of the parents who have children enrolled in our early childhood education program were able to gain or maintain employment.

  • The only emergency shelter in the state of Indiana with onsite childcare rated Level IV Paths to Quality.

  • During our first 9 years we served nearly 200 families, and helped over 500 children avoid foster care

None of this would have been possible without community support!

Hope Movement core values:

We affirm that:

  1. Families are stronger together.

  2. Every family deserves a safe place to sleep.

  3. Every child deserves to begin school ready to succeed.

  4. Every parent in our community deserves to have access to safe and affordable childcare, in order that gainful employment can be within reach.

This is what we stand for. Will you join us?