Since 1992, Hope Alive has offered essential youth development programs for children growing up in low-income neighborhoods:

After-school and Summer Enrichment Program--for elementary-age children, where children are supported by professionals from the Adler School of Professional Psychology. The curriculum features a Lit Art program which utilizes popular children's literature to enrich children's reading comprehension, develop vocabulary skills, and help children fall in love with reading.

Educational software is used in the computer lab featuring networked computers with Internet service for children's academic advancement and technological literacy

A Career Development Club teaches teens communication, presentation, and leadership skills critical to postsecondary success and meaningful employment

The Boys in the Hood Club, which provides at-risk boys an attractive alternative to gang affiliation

The Girls in the Hood Club, which offers at-risk girls a career-focused program designed to encourage education and to discourage teen motherhood

A summer camp program for teens as well as for younger children. Camp partners have included Kids Across America in Missouri, EWALU in Iowa, and Lutherdale in Wisconsin.

An Iowa Exchange

HOPE ALIVE Volunteer Program

Beginning in 1989, over 27,000 volunteers participated in the Hope Alive program, which focused on improving the quality of living in Chicago's public housing developments.

An inner-city immersion program, BridgeBuilders welcomed volunteers in to paint, clean, or do grounds work, projects that raised community standards and provide a more attractive environment for children growing up in public housing.

BridgeBuilders was rewarding for residents and spiritually and culturally enriching for volunteers. Having focused on the Cabrini Green neighborhood in the past, BridgeBuilders is looking to expand its reach to public housing on the West Side. Watch for more information here soon.

Hope Alive, a program of Holy Family Ministries

Program office: 542 West Hobbie, Chicago, IL 60610
Business office: 790 Frontage Road, Northfield, IL 60093
Phone 847.441.4115//fax 847.441.4116

Holy Family Ministries
790 Frontage Rd.
Northfield, IL 60093
Phone 847.441.4115//fax 847.441.4116
Email: info@holyfamilyministries.org

Susan Work, Ph.D., CEO, Holy Family Ministries
Charles Infelt, D.Min., Founding Pastor/Exec. Director, Hope Alive
Leslie Hunter, Chaplain, After-School Program, Director, Boys in the Hood Club and After-School Program
Janet Stewart, Program Assistant, After-School Program
Antoine Taylor, Director, Technology Lab
Stan Davis, Program Assistant