Support Services

Support Services


Hope Network offers comprehensive support services to people with disabilities or socio-economic disadvantages to work in conjunction with one of our specialized care services or stand alone, depending on the individual's needs. We continue to cultivate quality of life enrichment opportunities to offer a holistic approach in each person's journey toward greater independence.

Subsidized Housing provides income-based apartment rentals for people who are permanently disabled due to mobility impairment, chronic mental illness, or low income.

Workforce Development offers our customers the opportunity to achieve meaning and identity in their lives through gainful employment. It helps them establish their place as a contributing member of the community and the opportunity to achieve independence. 

Transportation supports a higher level of independence and quality of life to people with disabilities or older adults by providing rides to medical appointments, job sites and day programming.

Our Community Services are enhancement services that allow an individual to not only live independently, but to do so successfully, with assistance in budgeting, medication management, Pastoral Services and similar needs. 

Through Care Coordination, our supports coordinators help individuals manage their lives and enhanced health services in order to achieve their wants, dreams and goals along with maximizing their potential and helping facilitate greater independence.  


Feel free to Ask Jenny any questions you may have about our programs or services.

   

Free Tax Preparation Services Available at Hope Network Education Center
1/26/2012
Hope Network Workforce Development has partnered with Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) through Davenport University, to be a host site for free tax preparation services. This service is available to all Hope Network staff, consumers and the public.

Income tax assistance is available on Fridays, beginning February 3rd, from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Education Center in Grand Rapids.
 
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The Book of Cake Debut
12/22/2011

Hope Network hosted a special book signing of the new book, 'The Book of Cake' a collection of Cake stories from the past year which feature Hope Network consumers, employees and volunteers. 

Award winning writer Tom Rademacher, who writes the stories for Hope Network,  addressed the crowd of employees, Board Members and many of the people featured in the stories. 

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United Way Small Business Challenge
12/20/2011
Heart of West Michigan United Way invites you to take on the Small Business Challenge, created through a generous matching grant of $100,000 from the Steelcase Foundation. Any new United Way gift of $1,000 or more from a workplace of 100 or less employees will be matched up to a total of $100,000 by the end of March 2012.
 
Small businesses are the heart of most communities, yet during the 2010 United Way Campaign small businesses of 100 employees or less made up only 11.5% of total campaign dollars. This campaign year, United Way is hoping to change that with the Small Business Challenge.