Julia C. Hester House

Description

The Julia C. Hester House (Hester House) mission is to enhance the quality of lives in Fifth Ward and the surrounding communities through programs and services promoting self-empowerment. We strive to mobilize the community to address its issues and needs. Utilizing a holistic case management model, Hester House attempts to stabilize and treat the root of the client's problem. This approach facilitates solutions that will engage and empower the client and those in his/her family to seek social independence. Our current programs and services include pre-kindergarten, after school achievement, youth services, senior enrichment, basic skills and emergency basic needs including food, rent and mortgage and utility assistance.