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AGENCY HISTORY
| 2000 |
Journeys purchases 1140 E. Northwest Highway in Palatine, offering a permanent location to house the administrative offices and the HOPE Center Program |
| 2002 |
Journeys’ HOPE Center Program adds Mental Health Services, Vocational Services and Transportation Services. |
| 2003 |
Journeys adds a Development Department to focus on fundraising initiatives. |
| 2006 |
Journeys’ Vocational Department creates a client-run Lawn Service Business. |
2007 |
Journeys’ HOPE Center begins addressing housing stability by offering a Housing Readiness Program
(Pathways)
and partners with an affordable housing agency. |
HOPE NOW, Inc., created in 1992 and Northwest Suburban PADS, Inc., created in 1989, decided to explore a merger. The impetus came from the desire to continue to complement emergency services with professional coordination of the therapeutic continuum of care, while using donated resources even more efficiently. Merging these two agencies made sense administratively and programmatically. Both agencies served the same population -- homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless. In 1998, HOPE NOW, Inc. and Northwest Suburban PADS, Inc. made the decision to move their administrative offices and the Hope Center to a shared location. These two agencies operated in donated or rented space until 1999 when Northwest Suburban PADS, Inc. and HOPE NOW, Inc. received word that they had been awarded a large federal grant through Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to allow both agencies a permanent location at 1140 E. Northwest Highway, Palatine, IL. This location provided adequate space for the HOPE Center, and the grant provided an opportunity to rehabilitate the facility and expand the current services.
In October of 2001, HOPE NOW, Inc. and Northwest Suburban PADS, Inc. legally merged forming the new agency known as Journeys from PADS to HOPE, a multi-funded, comprehensive service agency. Within the newly merged agency are two professionally run programs, the PADS program and the HOPE Center program. Today the PADS program offers shelter at 18 different faith-based locations throughout the Northwest Suburban area of Cook County, coordinates 3,000 volunteers, and offers warm meals and a safe respite from the elements for those needing shelter and compassionate understanding. In addition, the HOPE Center has expanded the case management program, and has added mental health and substance abuse counseling, vocational counseling, and a variety of other supportive services in an attempt to break the cycle of homelessness. Professional staff members, assisted by volunteers, confer with clients to define their needs and provide the resources needed for a return to independent, productive living.
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