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HopeLink’s dedication to specialized services allows us to deliver hope to individuals and families, while strengthening the impact we make in the communities we serve.

Don’t just take our word for it. Here is what individuals we have served have to say.

“The Family Peer program has advocated for me and my family at every meeting with the school. They connected me with resources to help my family. By having those services, we were able to work with an individual therapist and a family therapist to work on my family’s mental health.”
Individual Served in the Family Peer Support Partners Program
“Kim is very friendly. As a mom, she understands the situation and how the family is facing the challenges. That is why she was very supportive; she always listened to me, gave us the best advice, and gave us many options.”
Individual Served in the Family Peer Support Partners Program (FPSP)
“LINC was my lifeboat during the most painful and confusing time of my life. They helped me claw my way out of rock bottom. Now, I’m not just back to the way I was before my psychosis episode; I am better than I’ve ever been. I’m stronger, kinder, more knowledgeable, and more resilient than I was before. And I am so grateful for the quality care I received through LINC: to the people at LINC who worked with me over the past year, I would like to say thank you. You saved my life.”
Individual served in the Linking Individuals and Navigating Care (LINC) Program
“The Recovery Academy helped me in my recovery to be more stable and to learn more coping skills. I enjoy coming here for structure and meeting people who are going through what I’m going through. I really changed a lot being here. I feel really proud of myself. I became a better person than I was before.”
Individual Served in the Recovery Academy Program
“Before I met my Family Peer Support Partner (FPSP), I felt like no one could understand what I was going through. I felt like the only parent out there that was going through this. It wasn’t until my Family Peer Support Partner came in that she really understood. She navigated the system and had her own experience. Finally, somebody who had been in my shoes. She gave encouragement, and I didn’t feel so alone. My Family Peer Support Partner was there every step of the way.”
Parent in the Family Peer Support Partners (FPSP) Program
“I tell my friends how grateful I am to have a therapist who regularly reminds me that continuing to have emotional reactions to situations that continue to exist doesn’t make me a bad person or a failure. It seems like common sense, but it makes a real difference to have a professional point out what ‘should’ be obvious. Being able to talk about the coping mechanisms that are working and get professional feedback about it is a bigger deal than I would have expected before experiencing it.”
Individual Served in the Mental Health Outpatient Therapy Program
“We feel appreciated as a community. We are seen, heard, and valued as individuals. Together we have the opportunity and ability to become soft in the hard places, strong in the chaos, beautiful in the mess, a light in the dark.”
Individual Served in the Recovery Academy Program
“Hope is often the first casualty and the hardest thing to get back. What HopeLink does really well, what it encourages family and community members to do really well, is hope by proxy. It’s like when I can’t afford to have hope, when I can’t muster up the hope in myself, I’ve got people around myself who have hope for me. At HopeLink, I’ve gotten to make that a part of my job. I can be hopeful for people when they’re not hopeful for themselves.”
Crisis Services Crisis Worker
“The feeling of community is wonderful. It makes me feel important. Thank you for all the hope you held for me until I could hold it on my own.”
Individual Served in the Recovery Academy Program
“For those few minutes we're on the phone, that's all I'm doing - holding the flashlight. I can't fix anything for them. I can't carry the burden for them. But I can help them feel a little less alone for a few minutes. I can help them find hope.”
Crisis Services Crisis Worker

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