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SHELTER • FOOD • CLOTHING • RECOVERY • EMPLOYMENT • HOUSING • HEALTH • MENTAL HEALTH • SOCIAL SERVICES • OUTREACH • EDUCATION

A LOOK BACK AT 2019 THANK YOU ALL FOR MAKING IT POSSIBLE!

and wrap gifts. Thank you December to everyone who made this Thank you to our 12 Days of Christmas sponsors for We had the pleasure of fun-filled day possible! providing wonderful holiday hosting a Feed the Children meals for our clients: Christ the King, Newman Center, event at the George Privett Cathedral of Christ the King Recovery Center alongside Valvoline, Daybreak Community Second Presbyterian Church Church, Second Presbyterian, Whitaker Jo Robertson & Family our community partners Lowell and Betty Nigoff Bank, First United Methodist Church Fazoli’s and Brown Food Daybreak Community Church Service. 200 families from of Paris, Crestwood Christian Church, Meadowthorpe Presbyterian Church integrity/Architecture, Grange Beaumont Presbyterian Church Southern Heights Baptist Church across the community Insurance, Covetrus, Georgetown Cadentown Baptist Church received a free Fazoli’s meal, College, Avnet, Eastminster Feed the Children David and Ginny Hyman children’s books, toys, and Presbyterian Church, Energy Insurance Terry Schmonsky’s Second Saturday Gang boxes of food! Agency, Lexington City Church, Ball Homes Our annual Client Christmas CarMax, Anchor Baptist Church, Farm Immanuel Baptist Church, Episcopal, Managers Association Parties were a huge success US Army Reserve Center Church of the Resurrection, for our 600 clients! Thanks City BBQ , RM Temple Adath Israel to our generous donors, we Lexington, Terry Becky Hill & Family Signature Healthcare were able to provide gifts for Schmonsky, Touche Salon all our clients, their spouses, Justin Powell, Women’s Center and children. Numerous Ross Bridges, Larry Southland Christian Church volunteers came out to serve McCoy, Ed Monroe, Sisters Keepers Larry McCoy and many others! Christmas snacks and cocoa St. Paul Catholic Church 12 Days of Christmas OUR MISSION: To care for homeless and at-risk persons by providing life-sustaining and life-rebuilding services that are comprehensive and address underlying causes. We Help. We Heal. We Give Hope. FEBRUARY 2020 WOW, WHAT A YEAR The sum of what you made possible in 2019

When we take someone on a tour of the Hope Center, we The HopeMobile helped with over 11,337 always begin at the beginning – the Emergency Shelter. requests for assistance. Our story starts there, when the City recognized the need for a place for hundreds of homeless men to go at night. The health clinic handled 1,966 patient visits. A partnership began and the Hope Center Emergency 418 clients were placed into permanent housing. Shelter program was born to fulfill that need. Right away though, it was clear that there was more to be done. Inside this newsletter, you will see a few of the other highlights of 2019. These accomplishments would not happen without each of you; our donors, board members, community partners and dedicated staff. You have made 380,958 meals were served hope happen for hundreds. at the Jacobs Hope At the end of each Hope Center tour, we always reflect on how this amazing place called the Hope Center Cafeteria, Privett came to be. Two men always come to mind and one of them is Cecil Dunn. Cecil, along with Mr. Don Ball, Recovery Center and played a crucial role in building the Hope Center to Ball Quantrell Jones what it is today. And after 25 years, Cecil has now retired, but our gratitude for his life changing work here Women’s Center is enduring. We wish him well in his retirement.

Seeing our clients struggling with addiction, mental 418 clients exited health issues and other life-threating situations demonstrated the need for a more comprehensive programs to approach that included help for the whole person, not just the physical body. A mental health program, a permanent housing recovery program, a veterans program and more were needed to help clients stand on their own. In the meantime, Janice James will be serving as our Now, with eight buildings and over thirteen programs, we Interim Executive Director as we work diligently to find can look, as a community, at the impact. In 2019 alone: our next Executive Director. While we do, we rely on all of 380,958 meals were served at the Jacobs Hope you to help us keep changing lives, one person at a time. Cafeteria, Privett Recovery Center and Ball Quantrell Thank you for your continued support. Jones Women’s Center. Over 180,000 nights of housing were provided Cathy Jacobs through all programs. Hope Center Board Chairman MAILING ADDRESS P.O. Box 6 Lexington, KY 40588

FACILITIES Emergency Shelter Ball-Quantrell Jones Center for Women A LOOK BACK AT 2019 George Privett Recovery Center Don Ball Campus Center THANK YOU ALL FOR MAKING IT POSSIBLE! Don and Cathy Jacobs House Jacobs Hope Cafeteria Fayette County Detention Center Recovery Program HopeMobile Hill Rise Place Apartments Barbara Hardwick Rouse House

PHONE (859) 252-7881 – Emergency Shelter (859) 721-0144 – Donations & Events Coalition for Public Safety Honor Don Ball Campus Center A Running Start

WEBSITE: www.hopectr.org May August September INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The Hope Center was one We officially opened the In 2019 dozens of clients Janice James of four organizations to be Don Ball Campus Center - a learned new, healthy habits 2020 HOPE CENTER honored by the Coalition brand new classroom space through our partnership BOARD MEMBERS Cathy Jacobs – Chair for Public Safety at the with corporate offices and with A Running Start, which Linda Ball – Vice Chair Celebration of Second 48 drug- and alcohol-free teaches physical conditioning Bill Rouse – Vice Chair Chances with a Front Lines apartments. The Don Ball and prepares recovery clients John McCarty – Treasurer Award, “for the heroes Campus Center is named in for 5K races. In September, George Wallace – Secretary Patrick Brewer on the ground impacting honor of our mainstay and A Running Start hosted their Bill Bridges lives every day.” The Hope mentor, Don Ball. first 5K for Hope Center Ron Brown Center was also awarded runners and the community! Eddie Burkhart $12,500 from CPS to go Brutus Clay III Chauncey S.R. Curtz toward furthering our work. Luther Deaton Chris Ford Rufus Friday Matthew R. Galbraith John Gohmann November Rick Griffith Ray Hatton Dr. Janie Heath Central Bank Hoops for Hope Mark Henderson More than 45 teams competed in fundraising and brought their skills Louis Hillenmeyer III to the court at Central Bank Hoops for Hope 2019! Our team Barry Holmes participants, donors and sponsors helped us raise $40,847! Brendan Jacobson Thanks to everyone who came out to play and the donors Connie Joiner Timothy A. Melton who helped us reach our goal. This exciting night would Sharon Price not be possible without you! George Privett, M.D. Crystin White Title Sponsor: Central Bank Solomon VanMeter, JD, MBA Center Line Sponsor: UPS, Steve Tressler Jeffrey D. Zinger Swish Sponsors: Ball Homes, SRC Of Lexington, iHeart BOARD OF SUSTAINERS Media, Tempur Sealy, , Kentucky Utilities, Harry Cohen Valvoline, Lexington Herald-Leader, City Barbeque Jean Cravens R. Douglas Ezzell Slam Dunk Sponsors: Humana, Cathy Jacobs & Don Ellie Hawse Jacobs Sr. Charitable Foundation, Allsports, PNC Bank, Gordon Hyde, M.D. Revived Productions, Jill & John McCarty, Clark Material Rev. Bonnie Quantrell Jones Handling, Debra & Doug Ezzell W. James Sprow III Richard Stephenson Robert Straus A LOOK BACK AT 2019 THANK YOU ALL FOR MAKING IT POSSIBLE!

November Title Sponsor: Presenting Sponsor: Cathy Jacobs & Don Jacobs Sr. Charitable Foundation Ball Homes Night Gold Sponsors: Alliance Coal, Dupree Catering + Events, UPS, Valvoline of Hope Silver Sponsors: A Godsend Roofing, The Lynn & Rovena Alexander Family Foundation, Caller Properties, Carrie Thayer Cardwell and David Cardwell, Central Bank, Clay Ingels, Computer We welcomed former Miss USA Services and Solutions, Dr. and Mrs. Kent L. Davis, Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP, Harrod Concrete & Stone, and Recovery Advocate Tara integrity/Architecture, PLLC, Kentucky Utilities, Lexington Clinic, Lexington Herald-Leader, One Conner for the Ball Homes Night Holland Corp, PNC Bank, Revived Productions, Setzer Properties, LLC, Spectrum Contracting, Inc., TOPS Lexington, UK College of Nursing, UK HealthCare, Wabuck Development Company, Inc., of Hope 2019. Tara brought a lot WesBanco Bank of truth to the Lexington Opera Supporting Sponsors: Alltech, BB&T, Beacon Properties, Bluegrass Office Systems, Inc., Breeding House stage as she shared about Henderson & Hord PLLC, Brendan Jacobson Family Fund, Community Action Council, Jean and her own recovery, struggles and Gene Cravens, Family of J.W. Davis, Dr. William B. Drake, Judy and Cecil Dunn, Fifth Third Bank, accomplishments. Thank you HealthFirst Bluegrass, Betsy and Louis Hillenmeyer, Hisle & Company, CPAs, iHeart Media, Jack Kain to our sponsors for making this Ford, Inc., James Motor Company, Keeneland, Kentucky Housing Corporation, Lexington Housing Authority, McBrayer PLLC, Marsh & McLennan Agency, John and Jill McCarty, New Vista, The Pain inspiring night possible! Treatment Center of the Bluegrass, George and Nawanna Privett, Erin and Bill Rouse, Margaret Ann and Dale Sights, Smiley Pete Publishing, Mr. and Mrs. William J. Sprow III, , Derek and Neal Vaughan, WealthSouth, Wildcat Moving, WKYT, Dr. Joe Zerga