Our Mission at
House of Hope Minnesota...

Vision

● To provide a Christian home that is a refuge for hurting teens which will bring healing to their lives and restore their families.

Mission

● To show residents that God has a plan for them and that they may know and believe God.  “For I know my plans I have for you” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”  Jeremiah 29:11

● To provide residents with effective programming to help them meet educational, spiritual, emotional, physical, and recreational goals as established through an individualized plan.

● To provide the tools they need to make wise choices and decisions.  “Train a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will to turn from it.”  Proverbs 22:6

● To provide parents with the skills they need to be effective parents who assume authority, set boundaries, communicate effectively, and love unconditionally.  “He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers.”  Malachi 4:6.

Goals

● To provide a safe and loving home where residents live in a structured loving environment with a 24 hour-a-day house staff that is committed to helping the clients learn responsibility, correct attitudes, and other skills that will prepare them to be productive members of their communities.

● To provide an individually designed Christian counseling program to help clients overcome their specific adversities.  To enable them to work through their specific hurts, problems, and behavior issues.

● To provide weekly group counseling that will enable residents to learn appropriate behavior, respect authority, and relate effectively to peers and adults.

● To provide Christian counseling and parenting classes to parents of residents.  Counseling and classes are designed to improve family dynamics, rules, roles, communication, and conflict resolution methods.

● To provide a Biblically based education curriculum that will provide opportunity to progress academically.

● To provide instruction in life skills that will develop skills needed for today and in the future.

● To provide an opportunity for spiritual growth that will equip them with the tools and strength they need to resist temptation when they return to their homes.