Hope Through Housing Foundation

Building Bright Futures is Hope through Housing Foundation’s youth development program focuses entirely on children and youth from low-income families in an effort to help them escape poverty and progress toward self-sufficiency. Hope has sought to prepare at-risk youth for future self-sufficiency through its after-school program for the past 25 years. Combining preschool, after-school and teen programming, Hope serves elementary-school students incorporating role modeling with homework help, character development, exercise, nutrition education and career exposure. We also provide scholarships to graduating seniors and adult learners.

We are committed to investing in our young people today because we want them to be successful in school and in life. Hope through Housing provides services to low-income residents within five Coachella Valley apartment communities, including three afterschool programs in Indio, Cathedral City and La Quinta. All residents earn less than 80% of the Area Median Income (some between 30-60%), 64% of our households are headed by single mothers, and 83% of children qualify for free/reduced meals.

Literacy is an issue. Our children, already challenged, really were hit hard by the pandemic. Those two lost years have left many of our youngest struggling to read. With that in mind, we established literacy corners at our three family communities promoting reading for academic success and pleasure. In conjunction with the corners, we created a lending library where children check-out backpacks filled with the latest books.

Hope through Housing’s mission is to break the vicious cycle of generational poverty. We believe that if we start with our youth today, we can provide the tools, guidance and resources they need to be successful in school and in life, ultimately breaking the cycle.

Contact: Edward Ponce

Email: Eponce@hthf.org