| Last updated on November 27, 2007 |
•BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE helps academically capable and motivated children-in-need to meet their full potential and become men and women for others by providing value-centered, family-like homes, opportunities and education through college.
Boys Hope Girls Hope's vision is to create a safe and nurturing home for academically talented and motivated children coming from difficult neighborhoods or homes to live while pursuing a college-preparatory education.
Description:
Boys Hope Girls Hope is a national non-profit organization, reaching out to at-risk children and providing a stable home, positive parenting, and high quality education. With 36 locations in 16 cities all over the U.S., and 2 homes in Guatemala and Brazil, the organization welcomes boys and girls from 10 to 18 years old into its residences. Beyond this scope, after-care services continue for scholars beyond these ages and parental resources are available to family members as well.
Impact of Boys Hope Girls Hope
National Statistics:
Since 1991, 100% of U.S. scholars who graduated high school in our care have gone on to college.
Scholars develop socially, physically and intellectually through participation in extracurricular activities and community service projects.
61% of scholars graduating high school in the years 1996 - 1999 have completed their college degrees, approximating the national average, while many of their peers continue their studies.
Increasing numbers of Boys Hope Girls Hope collegians are persisting in pursuit of a college degree: 90% of those who were freshmen in 2002/03 continue their studies as do 94%, 92% and 89%, respectively, of those who were freshmen in 2003/04, 2004/05 and 2005/06.
Program alumni have been accepted at some of the finest post-secondary institutions in the U.S., including the Air Force Academy, Boston College, Dartmouth College, Georgetown University, Harvard Law School, Loyola University, Michigan State University, St. Louis University, University of Missouri, and West Point, among others.
Boys Hope Girls Hope alumni are currently serving their communities as doctors, ministers, police officers, teachers, high school principals, engineers, managers and military officers.
History:
Founded in 1977 by Father Paul Sheridan, S.J., Boys Hope Girls Hope is a privately funded, non-profit, multi-denominational organization that provides at-risk children with a stable home, positive parenting, high quality education, and the support needed to reach their full potential. Many of our children come from home environments marked by drug abuse, poverty or neglect. Others come from caring families unable to meet the child’s needs.
Boys Hope Girls Hope is currently serving children in 38 homes in 16 U.S. cities and two foreign countries (Brazil, Guatemala).
The approach utilized by Boys Hope Girls Hope has several unique elements that make it the only program of its kind in the country.
The program:
places children in non-institutional, family-like homes staffed with live-in residential counselors
supports children financially and emotionally through college and beyond
provides children with long-term adult relationships and positive mentoring
provides referral and follow-up services to children not qualified for our program
offers after-care services to youth who are able to return to their families
is funded exclusively through private sector donations
Boys Hope Girls Hope of Baltimore:
Currently Boys Hope Girls Hope of Baltimore works with 12 young men and partners with Loyola Blakefield, Archbishop Curley, Cristo Rey Jesuit and Boys Latin for our high school scholars. The younger scholars attend St. Michael's Catholic School, St. Mary of the Assumption and St. Katharine's Catholic School.
Four of our scholar will graduate this year and all will be enrolled in colleges next fall.
A girls' home is in the planning stages and we hope to open Girls Hope in 2008.
Contact person: Chuck Roth, Executive Director, (phone), (email)
Office fax number: 410-244-0703
Address:
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3714 Fleetwood Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21206
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Web Site: http://www.bhghbaltimore.org
Miscellaneous Information
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