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Formerly St. Martin de Porres House of Hope - A Supportive Community for Women in Recovery Since 1983
Emily Hartwig began her role as Development and Communication Associate on August 2nd and is ready to focus on donor messaging and developing the organization’s communications channels. She has a […]
Recovery from your addiction is a challenging journey. Addicts and their families face many obstacles, but with certain strategies in place, they can rebuild their lives. Here is how to […]
When Carmelita Woods entered House of Hope in 1991, she was in an outpatient rehabilitation program for drugs and alcohol. She hated where she was living. A woman who lived […]
Sandy and Brian Kraimer met while attending college in Wisconsin, got married and moved to Chicago for work. Sandy thought the move would be temporary. That was almost 30 years […]
Father Tom grew up in the Marquette Park area on Chicago’s South Side, a graduate of St. Rita of Cascia High School. Ordained in the Augustinian Order, he returned to […]
Gloria Gleave started her career as a computer programmer in the early 1970s and ended it as a certified Project Manager. In the late 1980s, she met Sister Connie Driscoll at […]
Carol Cronin’s family foundation has been supporting St. Martin de Porres House of Hope for more than 20 years. “My sister Hannah first heard Sister Connie speak to a group of […]
Jackie Edens has devoted her career to helping Chicago’s homeless and disadvantaged. She started working for the city as a Mobile Crisis Intervention Worker in 1975, when the city relied […]
Walk into the doors of St. Martin de Porres House of Hope, and the first room you will come to has walls painted a vivid red. Sunlight streams through the […]
There I was, in my mid-20s, living in the attic of a homeless shelter with 60 women and about 70 of their children,” John Driscoll says with a smile. Today […]