40 Years of Hope
For 40 years Southside Center of Hope (SSCOH) formerly St. Martin de Porres House of Hope has been a haven for mothers struggling with addiction. SSCOH has remained steadfast in […]
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Workforce Development Partnership
Southside Center of Hope recently partnered with HHPLift to offer a Workforce Development Program. HHPLift is a nonprofit social enterprise with a mission to forge economic independence through workforce and […]
Longtime Volunteer Holds Coat Drive
Antoinette Gonzales Kern has been a longtime volunteer of Southside Center of Hope (SSCOH) formally known as Saint Martin De Porres House of Hope. “I will always know it as […]
35 Years of Hope: Carol Cronin
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 […]
35 Years of Hope: Sandy and Brian Kraimer
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 […]
35 Years of Hope: Father Tom McCarthy
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 […]
35 Years of Hope: Gloria and Fred Gleave
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 […]
35 Years of Hope: Jackie Edens
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 […]
35 Years of Hope: Carol Marin
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 […]
35 Years of Hope: John Driscoll
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 […]