Focus Hope

Since 1981, workforce development education job training focus: hope has graduated 15,000 students to date from our career programs. Our education and workforce development programs prepare individuals for success with a holistic approach to individuals looking to jump start their careers.

Focus: hopes early learning programs operating at the center for children and new paradigm glazer academy and durfee innovation society,offers quality childcare in an education environment for infants and children up to age five. Focus: hope offers early head start/ head start (birth to five) along with the great start readiness program and other early childhood preschool education programs. The programs serve the children in the community who meet head start or great start readiness program requirements. Additionally, through a community-based doula program, it provides non-medical peer support for low income pregnant mothers.

Each of focus: hopes core program areas are tied together by a range of empowerment initiatives designed to develop community leadership and promote economic prosperity of program participants as focus: hope engages in advocacy toward equitable systems change. These initiatives consists economic empowerment offerings, youth leadership as activism and of a mix of anti-racism discussions and activities engaging colleagues along with the public.