GRANDMAS HOUSE OF HOPE
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Mission Statement
Grandma’s House of Hope (GHH) provides housing, food, workforce development, and enrichment activities to Orange County’s most socio-economically disadvantaged community members with a specific focus on serving those who are ineligible for or have significant difficulty accessing other organizations’ services. By serving the Invisible Populations of Orange County, we are known amongst our partners and in our community as the program that says YES when so many others say no. We are an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit, not a subsidiary nor an affiliate of another organization.
About This Cause
Grandma’s House of Hope (GHH) provides housing, food, workforce development, and enrichment activities to Orange County’s most socio-economically disadvantaged community members with a specific focus on serving those who are ineligible for or have significant difficulty accessing other organizations’ services. By serving the Invisible Populations of Orange County, we are known amongst our partners and in our community as the program that says YES when so many others say no. Our Housing Program provides transitional, emergency, safe haven, and long-term supportive housing, as well as case management, counseling, workforce development, and individualized care to women with or without young children, and men, through homes 10 locations in North Orange County. The more than 100 women and men in our program come from extraordinarily diverse backgrounds, including human trafficking, chronic homelessness, untreated mental health conditions, addiction, arrest, cancer, and other serious illness treatment while homeless. The common thread is their ineligibility for other housing programs because of the complexity of their cases, their medication regimens, or their physical and mental disabilities. GHH runs one of the few housing programs in Orange County offering truly individualized care, adapting each participant’s road map to achieving sustainable permanent housing based on her unique background, needs, resources, strengths, and goals. Through six distribution sites, the Nana’s Kidz program provides meals, school supplies, and shoes to homeless and unstably housed individuals and families. The children we serve often are without food in the evenings, on weekends, and during school breaks because of the limitations of the free/reduced school meal program. Nana’s Kidz alleviates the constant family stressor of identifying the next meal source by supplying the meals that schools do not provide, allowing families to focus on housing and educational goals. We bring food directly to the families every two weeks, which builds families’ confidence in this regular food source. Nana’s Kidz recently added our new Healthy Kidz component, which improves children’s health and well-being and combats childhood obesity by providing opportunities for safe outdoor play, health education, and enhanced fresh food options and nutritional balance in the Nana’s Kidz meals. Additionally, Nana’s Kidz travels to sites where homeless people live – such as the Santa Ana Civic Center – and distributes hot and cold prepared meals. HopeWorks provides workforce development assistance to very low income families, including the families served by the Nana’s Kidz program. Workforce development services include access to computer labs, resume-building, job search assistance, and adult education tutoring. The highlight of our HopeWorks program is our HopeWorks Education and Enrichment Center (HWEEC) – a 2,500 square foot community and youth center located onsite at a subsidized very low income housing development. All GHH service sites are currently located in North Orange County. Through the Nana’s Kidz program, we expand our reach by bringing meals to homeless encampments throughout Orange County. Additionally, while the majority of the adult clients in our Housing Program are Orange County residents, we serve women, men and seniors from other counties, states, and – in the case of human trafficking – nations. All GHH clients have little to no income, and most have experienced multigenerational poverty and/or abuse.