Journeys From Pads To Hope

Specialties

Journeys from PADS to HOPE serves individuals and families in north and northwest suburban Cook County who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.

Journeys is the collaborative effort of the HOPE Center clinical team and affiliated PADS emergency shelter sites. Focusing on intervention and prevention, the clinical staff at the HOPE Center provide an array of psychosocial services, including mental health counseling, vocational rehabilitation, and housing assistance. Journeys’ new supportive housing program offers affordable temporary housing and consistent therapeutic support by the HOPE Center clinical team to help clients achieve independence. Journeys also administers 19 faith-​based emergency shelter sites that provide a safe, warm place to sleep and hot meals.

History

Established in 2001.

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 H