PARTNERSHIPS ARE PRICELESS
OUR IMPACT
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DONOR DOLLARS RAISED
Over the course of our years in service to the community, nearly all of our working capital have come from small donors. These dollars were then returned back into the community through programming and after school activities. |
22+YEARS SERVING COMMUNITIES
In 2000, DOH was formed by two individuals who were dedicated to struggle and progress: Glenn Cobbins, Sr. and Judy Hubbard. Upon their shoulders they bore the cross for the community, speaking with moms and dads, the youth, feeding the homeless and hungry, and challenging injustices wherever they manifested. |
6,000+THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN IMPACTED
For the last 21 years our main focus was utilizing preventive measures in working with at-risk youth to re-direct the school-to-prison pipeline. Over the course of our years of service, we’ve visited neighborhoods, homes and schools reaching out to youth in an effort to spark positive and productive change. |
WHO IS DESTINY OF H.O.P.E., INC.?
For over 22 years now, Destiny of H.O.P.E., Inc. have been a pillar in the Columbia community seeking to help all those in need. Over the years DOH have established relations and partnerships with several community organizations such as the Boys and Girls Club, the Rainbow House, the Blind Boone Center, Smart Move, the Cornerstone Detention Center, Big Brother and Sister Program, Cocaine Anonymous, Alcoholic Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous and Parents Anonymous.
We established a partnership with the Reality House wherein we worked diligently to prevent individuals from going to prison, and on the other side of the coin, for those that were exiting prison, we worked to find jobs, transportation, and clothing. DOH partnered with Pathways Rehabilitation Center, the Phoenix Program, True North for battered women, Juvenile Justice Center, the Family Counseling Center, and McCambridge Women’s Center.
DOH sponsored several programs at the mission center such as an after-school program teaching a 12 week class on life skills, identity, etiquette, and civic story telling. We sponsored a 12 week “learning with your child” course, single parent program, phenomenal young women’s class, and an arts and crafts program.
Through our restorative justice program with the Columbia Boone County Courthouse, we worked as advocates for those deserving and community outreach.
Over the course of the last year, DOH have emerged as a solid leader in assisting individuals who are struggling today. It is our fondest hope and purpose to make DOH, once again, a household name. We have forged lasting partnerships and friends with those who have an identical mission to be servant leaders. The Board of Directors here at DOH recognizes the stress imposed on our community from a two-year battle with COVID and its residual effects on the community. We observe our communities, provinces, and towns, with a keen eye as to what is affecting us.
Our motto is: Change is inevitable, Growth in Intentional.
As members of the servant class, DOH, operating as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization is prepared to take on the needs of the people and address the problems, not just the symptoms. We stand on the shoulders of giants from every coast and perspective valley; not stifled by those who have given up on the people, nor silenced by the illusions of power.
To every board member, well-wisher, and sympathizer, Helping Our People Excel, is a lifestyle not an activity. Our people are those who have been counted out, miseducated, traumatized, disenfranchised, and marginalized. Struggle is prescribed for all those who believe in a cause bigger than themselves. We are now assisting in America’s very own humanitarian crisis, where people of all races are struggling to survive, to have a decent meal; where impoverished communities remain poor, in part because they think like they are poor.
The acquisition of knowledge blots out the stain of ignorance. Knowledge itself possesses power only if you can make it practical. It is our day to take our rightful places amongst the people, for we serve the best of us when we serve each other.
We established a partnership with the Reality House wherein we worked diligently to prevent individuals from going to prison, and on the other side of the coin, for those that were exiting prison, we worked to find jobs, transportation, and clothing. DOH partnered with Pathways Rehabilitation Center, the Phoenix Program, True North for battered women, Juvenile Justice Center, the Family Counseling Center, and McCambridge Women’s Center.
DOH sponsored several programs at the mission center such as an after-school program teaching a 12 week class on life skills, identity, etiquette, and civic story telling. We sponsored a 12 week “learning with your child” course, single parent program, phenomenal young women’s class, and an arts and crafts program.
Through our restorative justice program with the Columbia Boone County Courthouse, we worked as advocates for those deserving and community outreach.
Over the course of the last year, DOH have emerged as a solid leader in assisting individuals who are struggling today. It is our fondest hope and purpose to make DOH, once again, a household name. We have forged lasting partnerships and friends with those who have an identical mission to be servant leaders. The Board of Directors here at DOH recognizes the stress imposed on our community from a two-year battle with COVID and its residual effects on the community. We observe our communities, provinces, and towns, with a keen eye as to what is affecting us.
Our motto is: Change is inevitable, Growth in Intentional.
As members of the servant class, DOH, operating as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization is prepared to take on the needs of the people and address the problems, not just the symptoms. We stand on the shoulders of giants from every coast and perspective valley; not stifled by those who have given up on the people, nor silenced by the illusions of power.
To every board member, well-wisher, and sympathizer, Helping Our People Excel, is a lifestyle not an activity. Our people are those who have been counted out, miseducated, traumatized, disenfranchised, and marginalized. Struggle is prescribed for all those who believe in a cause bigger than themselves. We are now assisting in America’s very own humanitarian crisis, where people of all races are struggling to survive, to have a decent meal; where impoverished communities remain poor, in part because they think like they are poor.
The acquisition of knowledge blots out the stain of ignorance. Knowledge itself possesses power only if you can make it practical. It is our day to take our rightful places amongst the people, for we serve the best of us when we serve each other.
“Destiny of H.O.P.E., Inc is a nonprofit organization on a mission to assist those in need; from working with troubled and at-risk youth to helping incarcerated persons successfully transition back into society. ”— Lonnie Lockhart Bey, Executive Director |
Lonnie Lockhart Bey and Damon "PB" Caldwell, both did
twenty-six and a half years in prison |
MEN BEHIND BARS COULD STEER YOUTHS FROM CRIME, January, 2015
“Children suffer from a socioeconomic plight that has destroyed communities, where we live, where there is no hope, where there is no choice for change,” Lockhart-Bey said when we spoke last fall at the 10th Annual NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner at the prison. “I want to be the person to tell young people there is a better way.”
SEE FULL ARTICLE/Ldiuguid@kcstar.com
"Mentoring programs are a prominent strategy in the United States for preventing negative outcomes and promoting resilience among at-risk youth. Although diverse in their design and implementation, mentoring programs share a common aim of providing young people with structured support from older or more experienced people, such as adult volunteers or students at higher grade levels.
These programs date back to initiatives in the early 20th century that sought to engage men from local communities to be positive role models for boys from disadvantaged life circumstances and, in doing so, stem the tide of young males becoming involved in the justice system. Today’s mentoring programs serve a wide range of age groups — from young children to older adolescents — and populations with diverse needs and risk factors — from poverty and neighborhood disadvantage to specific vulnerabilities such as disability, mental health challenges, or experiences of commercial sexual exploitation. Current program models and approaches differ according to the age of the mentor (e.g., older peers vs. adults), whether mentors are volunteers or paid staff, format (e.g., one-to-one vs. group), and location (e.g., school vs. community). Some programs focus on delinquency prevention while others promote mental health and academic achievement."
SEE FULL ARTICLE/Ldiuguid@kcstar.com
"Mentoring programs are a prominent strategy in the United States for preventing negative outcomes and promoting resilience among at-risk youth. Although diverse in their design and implementation, mentoring programs share a common aim of providing young people with structured support from older or more experienced people, such as adult volunteers or students at higher grade levels.
These programs date back to initiatives in the early 20th century that sought to engage men from local communities to be positive role models for boys from disadvantaged life circumstances and, in doing so, stem the tide of young males becoming involved in the justice system. Today’s mentoring programs serve a wide range of age groups — from young children to older adolescents — and populations with diverse needs and risk factors — from poverty and neighborhood disadvantage to specific vulnerabilities such as disability, mental health challenges, or experiences of commercial sexual exploitation. Current program models and approaches differ according to the age of the mentor (e.g., older peers vs. adults), whether mentors are volunteers or paid staff, format (e.g., one-to-one vs. group), and location (e.g., school vs. community). Some programs focus on delinquency prevention while others promote mental health and academic achievement."
“Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.”
― Napoleon Hill
