The Hope House Cañon City Residential Program offers a safe, stable home for teen moms and their children who have become homeless, are living in an unsafe environment or are in an environment that is unable to support them. The home has four bedrooms that can provide teen moms up to a week of respite care, up to nine months of transitional housing or up to two years of comprehensive programming. While at the house, our moms will be engaged and challenged through self-sufficiency programming provided by partners in Cañon City who can help teen moms finish high school, prep for college or a career, gain access to childcare and receive the essential resources they need to provide for their children. While at the house, teen moms will learn how to incorporate healthy routines into daily life while living with their children and their peers in a safe, supportive environment.
Empowering Teen Moms
Hope House Cañon City provides free self-sufficiency programs to parenting teen moms in two key areas. The Empower Program provides opportunities for personal, educational and economic self-sufficiency for teen moms. The Housing Support Program provides Southern Colorado’s only Residential Program for teen moms. Both programs are designed to transform the lives of two generations at Hope House.
Hope House Programs
Teen moms are one of the most vulnerable yet overlooked groups in our community, with less than 2% graduating from college and only half earning a high school diploma. Our Hope House Programs offer tangible hope, providing a variety of free services designed to help teen moms become self-sufficient members of their community who are also nurturing, loving parents. These programs provide a menu-style approach to services that allows our teen moms to define their own goals and then select the program components that will help them reach their goals.
Hope House Cañon City empowers parenting teenage moms to strive for personal and economic self-sufficiency and to understand their significance in God’s sight, resulting in a healthy future for them, and for their children.
Our Executive Director has worked with teen moms for more than 12 years. During that time, it was evident that access to safe and stable housing was crucial to seeing these moms thrive. In 2020, she began communicating with Hope House Colorado about the possibility of becoming an affiliate organization and opening a Residential Housing Program. As they started the process, doors began to rapidly open. In 2022, Hope House Canon City officially became a 501c3 nonprofit and in August 2023 we cut the ribbon on our Residential Home. In January of 2024, we welcomed our very first residents and their children. We continue to build relationships with many moms in our community, providing essential resources and equipping them for their future.
Organization name
Hope House Canon City
2022
Tax id (EIN)
88-3722940
Category
Housing & Shelter, Human Services, Youth Development
Organization Size
Small Organization
Address
2880 Central Ave.Fremont County, CO, US
El Paso County, CO, US
Pueblo County, CO, US
Chaffee County, CO, US