Project Hope Fund

Faith-based professional counseling, consultation and educational services provided
to those with little or ability to pay. This includes special assistance/sliding
scale through our main Center and at our Inner City Ministry Partner locations.
- An Outreach Ministry of the Christian Counseling Center -

Our History:
Project Hope began at Heartside Ministry in 1996 with seed monies given by the Robert and Judith Hooker Charitable Foundation. Project Hope is a faith-based professional counseling and educational service provided in collaboration with local ministries to culturally diverse and economically disadvantaged children and families. Services offered include individual, marital/couple, family and/or group therapy, educational seminars and consultation services through collaborating agencies. Most common presenting problems of clientele:

• child and/or sexual abuse victims
• domestic violence victims
• substance abuse (i.e. alcohol, various illegal drugs/narcotics)
• depression, anxiety disorders
• post-traumatic stress disorder
• stressors related to poverty (unemployment, little or no public assistance, homelessness, lack of basic services such as medical care, food, etc.)

Goals and Objectives:

• reduce initial and /or repeated inpatient hospitalizations through encouraging compliance with
• reduce initial and/or repeated unnecessary use of local emergency room services
• increase individual and/or family self-sufficiency
• improve or stabilize family relationships
• increase awareness of the affects of violence on women and children and empower women to
• provide safety for their families
• provide all professional services in the manner consistent with Christian/Biblical principles.
  

Project Hope Service Locations:

• Heartside Ministry (downtown Grand Rapids)
• The Other Way Ministries (southwest Grand Rapids)
• Degage Ministries (downtown Grand Rapids)
• The Potters House School (southwest Grand Rapids)
• Health Intervention Services (southeast Grand Rapids)
• Christian Counseling Center (northeast Grand Rapids)
• Roosevelt Park Ministries (southwest Grand Rapids)
• Madison Square Church (southeast Grand Rapids)
• Byron Community Ministries (south Kent County)

We give thanks for the generous support of our donors whose faithful support enables us to sustain these services to those children and families in our community with the most chronic, severe emotional, vocational financial, physical and/or spiritual difficulties.