About Us
About Us
Welcome to Hope Harbour Family and Youth Services, a nonprofit dedicated to developing youth into healthy, empowered leaders. We provide long-term involvement with our participants over the course of their elementary to secondary school careers, using a unique framework and holistic services that support their personal and academic achievement. That support includes the family structure, ensuring that the individual's success is strengthened through family healing and development.
What started as a gathering of compassionate women evolved into a beacon of hope, dedicated to empowering marginalized communities, and fostering resiliency for children and their families.
In 2014, our co-founders started a group with a mission to support racialized women in their journey toward healing from the impacts of internalized racism and childhood traumas, low self-esteem, systemic racism, and family challenges. Through healing activities, events, and peer-to-peer counseling, we created a circle of empowerment with a vision to help women from various racialized backgrounds find a safe space to heal, help, and hope. Through our work over the five years of delivery, we realized that most of the women identified childhood and adolescence as the time when intervention and the opportunity to develop the foundation to become empowered were critical. This inspired the cofounder to explore methods for empowering and providing a continuity of care through meaningful mentorship and intervention in the lives of children and families; with a deep commitment to helping families heal and preventing cycles of violence, poverty, and abuse, Hope Harbour was founded.
Hope Harbour supports youth, ages 8-24yrs, through multi-layered, diverse and holistic programming.
Our young people face socio-economic realities that affect their lives. These disparate realities are reflected in health, employment, early pregnancy, incarceration, schooling, and life expectancy disparities.
In response, we provide comprehensive, non-traditional support. The themes of our organization are: Healing; Knowledge, Positivity and Future.
We are committed to helping youth develop their minds, bodies and spirits in a healthy manner, ensuring their development into strong and stable adults.
Our theory of change involves providing multi-layered support, education, mentorship, and healing to our members, teaching them self-discipline and decision-making in their lives, and then offering opportunities and access so that they may walk into their desired pathways.
Today, our mission remains steadfast. We continue to work tirelessly alongside racialized girls, youth, and families experiencing poverty, striving to enhance their resilience, build their capacity, and empower them to heal and thrive. At Hope Harbour, we believe that every individual deserves a chance to flourish, and we are committed to being a guiding light on their journey toward a brighter future. Join us as we navigate the waters of hope and possibility together.
Inspiring Hope, Empowering Tomorrow.
