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Children at Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center’s Hope Street Margolis Family Center listen to stories being read to them on Dr. Seuss Day, March 2.
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Margolis Family Center fetes 30 years Special to LA Downtown News hirty years ago, the Hope Street Margolis Family Center opened its doors in Downtown Los Angeles as a community benefit program of Dignity Health – California Hospital Medical Center. Its aim was to transform the lives of children and families in the surrounding, underserved communities through its educational and recreational resources and by inspiring the students to follow their dreams. Hope Street was established in 1992 as a collaboration between the University of California, Los Angeles and CHMC. Since then, nearly 150,000 children and families have been served by the Hope Street program, which continues its proven track record of empowering and strengthening families by addressing the social determinants of health through a continuum of care including early childhood education, child welfare, behavioral health, parent education, health, youth and social services that support the entire family from birth to adulthood. Over the years, Hope Street has grown into a dynamic resource center that serves families living at or below the poverty line, particularly those who have been hit hard during the pandemic. In fact, 40% of households served by Hope Street earn less than $25,000 per year, 45% of the students ages 0 to 5 live in poverty and about 55% of the adults living below the poverty line never completed high school. Many of Hope Street’s former students have gone on to become the first college graduates in their families, while others have pursued careers in health care, medicine, and other esteemed fields. “What the team at the Hope Street Margolis Family Center has accomplished in the last 30 years has been nothing short of remarkable,” said Alina Moran, CHMC president. “The lives of thousands of children and families have been positively shaped in that time span through the passion and dedication of the Hope Street staff, enabling the students to achieve so much more than they could have ever dreamt.” In the early days of the pandemic, Hope Street’s team of educators quickly customized classrooms, computer labs, and common areas to offer a safe learning space, computers, Wi-Fi, and even breakfast and lunch, for 50 students ranging from first grade through high school. Many of the students who attend Hope Street, as well as the families themselves, have never used a computer and as such, the staff at Hope Street had to teach many of them the basics for them to be able to distance learn. “Over the last 30 years, the Hope Street Margolis Family Center has played such a vital role in the lives of our community’s most vulnerable children and families,” said Vickie Kropenske, Hope Street director. “The most gratifying part of this milestone is seeing the sustaining impact that our early work with young families has had on their long-term success and well-being.” Last year, Hope Street expanded its reach by opening The Nest, its latest state-of-the-art early childhood education center in downtown Los Angeles. The Nest provides a no-cost, high-quality, nurturing environment for up to 32 children whose parents are looking for job placement or returning to work, including families experiencing homelessness.
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