Corpus Christi Hope House Inc

Corpus Christi Hope House provides 24/7 emergency shelter, transitional housing, support, life-skills training, food, clothing, baby items, counseling, education, and medical assistance to families, single mothers, their dependent children, and newborn babies who seek an escape from homelessness, addiction, domestic violence, poverty or a crisis pregnancy situation. We provide homeless prevention services and COVID-19 assistance to members of our community.

Corpus Christi Hope House began with a three-bedroom house for homeless pregnant women in 1987. We have four shelter buildings on Robinson Street with private bedrooms that can accommodate 23 women in addition to their dependent children and newborn babies. Our offices, the Gabriel Project community outreach program, life-skills training classroom, private counseling rooms, and food/clothing/diaper bank facilities are all located at our 7,500-square-foot main facility at 3226 Reid Drive. We served 19,346 clients in 2024, and over 12,000 clients have benefitted from our programs already this year in addition to 174 clients that received Homeless Prevention Assistance. The need for our services has significantly increased during the past four years. We anticipate the demand for our services to continue to rise in the coming months as our community continues to be impacted by the economy, poverty, and homelessness.

Corpus Christi Hope House's programs focus on creating systematic change among homeless families, women, and single mothers to promote human dignity with compassion.

Testimonials

Success is defined when a client leaves our shelter to a permanent residence with the ability, knowledge and the will to become a loving and caring parent and a productive self-sufficient member of our community. An example of this is:

Client X was placed in our facilities by a judge through court orders. She was pregnant and had nowhere else to turn. She has turned her life around by participating in our program. She gave birth to a healthy baby boy, has become involved in a local church where her son has been baptized, and is enrolled and attending classes at Southwest Schools to become a Medical Office Assistant.