We are here to provide helping hands to our community.

Our Services

YOUTH SERVICES

  • (3 month calendar cycles, 3x per year): Providing mentoring to the male youth of color in our community which will have a significant impact on their confidence, leadership skills and resilience. The importance of this male mentorship is to impress upon positive values and experiences to help avoid negative behaviors and achieve success. By having a safe male role model to learn from and talk to it, widens the youth support system, and enhances their mental health. The objectives of our youth mentor program are to increase coping skills, build resilience and build the confidence to break away from unproductive cycles or behaviors. Through mentoring, youth have a supportive social environment available, and youth are encouraged to identify specific personal goals they would like to achieve. Meeting on a weekly basis, youth will spend 2 hours of one-on-one time with their mentors.

  • (8 weeks): The Little women of Melanin is a support group for ages 5 - 10 years of age. LWM Focus on different forms of relationship building and challenging barriers at a young age. People like to believe that children cannot experience stress, but stress begins in children at the of age 4. My goal is to help young girls practice self-love, show resilience and believe in their own success. We have field trips, mental health conversations, baking club, emotional paint sessions, dance parties and engaging conversations surrounding education and activities and bullying. The impact has shown feeling less lonely, isolated or judged! Reducing stress, depression and anxiety.

  • (8 weeks): Girl Group is a program supports girls ages 11-18 years old to grow up healthy, and learn how to be safe, educated, resilient, and independent. Girls will learn different lessons about self-respect, positive self-talk, healthy eating, body image, peer pressure, and bullying. The program will focus on fun community activities and events. Girls Groups will help girls be their best, culturally authentic selves.

  • (8 weeks): Early work experience program for youth ages 14-18, that help young people build resilience around todays workforce by learning how to complete an application to how to get the supporting documents needed to secure the job. Youth learn how translate skills from their life experience to attributed skills employers look for.

ADULT SERVICES

  • (year round): The purpose of our transportation program is to reduce the barriers our clients have when accessing basic needs. Many of our clients live in food deserts and struggle to access affordable groceries due to limited public transportation schedules. Supportive transportation to Hope Restores programming provides a safe alternative to clients facing complex barriers.

  • (12 weeks): A support group empowering black women of Lacrosse with educational, financial, emotional, social and all around wellness support. We recognize the burden of not having a support team within your culture that understands specifically the strength it takes everyday to encourage and uplift your family while forgetting to do the same for yourself.

  • (12 weeks): A support group for Black men fighting barriers, resource connections, mental health and all around wellness. We will provide Counseling referrals, support groups, basic needs like helping them obtain a valid driver’s license to finding or creating meaningful employment and life tools to help the black male and restore their importance as a cornerstone in the family dynamic. We recognize the lack of support for black men and how it perpetuates them being under valued in society.

  • The Giving Pantry is a small donation driven pantry that does offer some food items but we try to focus on hygiene and household cleaning items that can be difficult to purchase for economically disadvantaged individuals.

FAMILY SERVICES

  • (1x per month): Family night is a fun trust building night with Hope Restores that is designed to be fun for the entire family, teenagers included. It takes place once a month and includes games and prizes available for everyone in the whole family as well as a yummy hot meal.

  • (year round): Affordable, safe, culturally competent, drop-in childcare does not exist in La Crosse. This is a significant barrier to our clients who often do not have the social support network. We provide up to 2-hour drop-in childcare for children ages 12 weeks to 11 years old for caregivers needing a bridge service for job search, interviews and medical appointments.

  • (10 weeks): The FAST Program is an evidence-based family engagement program that supports child well-being and learning readiness, empowers parents, and builds social capital so children can thrive. It strengthens family relationships and increase cohesion, engage parents more with the school and enable them to advocate for their children’s education and connect families to other families and community resources to reduce isolation and stress. Families eat a meal and play games together, parents discuss and bond over shared experiences, kids and youth make friends with their peers, and parents engage in one-on-one special play/conversation time with their children free from distraction.

  • (year round): This program helps families with diaper aged children get the supplies they need to support those healthy living. The average monthly cost of diapers is $100 and that's for families with a single diaper aged child. This number doesn't account for other diapering needs such as wipes, powders, creams or ointments.

Meet Our Team

  • Mia

    KITCHEN MANAGER

    I am Mia Simone Davis, the vice president of Black Student Leaders, The Cook at Hope Restores, facilitator of both Little Women of Melanin, and the Teenage Girls Group here at Hope Restores. I also am a Client Coordinator here at Hope Restores supporting and providing services for our clients. I am a kind hearted smiling face people see as they come to Hope Restores I have a love language for feeding other and being at Hope Restores I able to share my passion with my community!

  • Chaya

    COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER

    My name is Chaya Davis I am originally from Madison, WI. I am a newly high school graduate. I also am a new community health worker at hope restores as well as the president of Black Student Leaders. I’m extremely passionate in helping youth in the community!

  • Courtney

    CLIENT SUPPORT

    Hello, my name is Courtney Silas, and I have been an Ambassador and Client Support worker as well as a facilitator at Hope Restores for over the past 2 years, while also planning and hosting family night events hosted at Hope Restores. My responsibility as an ambassador is to market and promote things on our social media page as well as share other activities and events throughout our community. I enjoy working with the team and I love what I do at Hope Restores.

  • Cierra (CC)

    Cierra (CC)

    COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER

    Hey, my name is Cierra Scott also known as CC and I am a Community Health Worker and Facilitator at Hope Restores. My goal in the community is to work with the youth in Lacrosse and to help them learn about emotional behaviors and mental health, to control their self-esteem while motivating them throughout their life. I am a business owner of FNO Failure is Not an Option Clothing Brand.

  • Robert

    Robert

    COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER

    Hello, my name is Robert Triplett and I relocated from Georgia to La Crosse in 2022, where I was an over the road truck driver. Surviving from a ulcer on the bottom of my foot which then I was introduced to Hope Restores who stepped in and got me the proper attention I needed like health care insurance, FoodShare, and a job that has led me to a full-time employer assisting in a young boy’s and men’s support groups which has over 25 men now. I am also a Community Health Worker and my goal is to help educate boys and men and to help break any barriers they might be facing or have had to face in their life.