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SEAFORD COMMUNITY OF HOPE

A collaborative approach to community wellness

Meaningful community-based solutions, create better futures for children and families

Creating better futures for children and families is not possible unless we understand the unique needs, strengths, and conditions of the community that surround them.

 

If a community is healthy — if it is safe, supportive and teeming with opportunities — then it will have the elements that children need to thrive. For vulnerable communities, providing early supports before challenges turn into crises, makes all the difference for children and families.

Seaford Community of Hope is a place-based program that engages local communities to meet needs with wraparound services and supports proven to help reduce poverty, improve lives, and keep families together.

A shared responsibility to build hope into a true child and family well-being system

Using the Casey Family Programs model, Seaford Community of Hope brings all of the diverse and relevant voices of a community together - government, business, nonprofit and faith-based, philanthropic, and community members - to establish their own priorities and create their own solutions.

Our Family Resource Centers - led by culturally respectful, trauma-informed staff - serve as vibrant hubs of collaboration, transforming hope into sustainable change that increases protective factors for families and communities, strengthens parent and child resiliency, and ensures all children and families have what they need to thrive.​

Seaford Community of Hope Supports Include:

  • Safe, Supportive Drop-in Centers

  • Multi-lingual Caring Staff

  • Monthly $1 Family Dinners

  • On-Site & Mobile Food Pantries

  • 2-Generation Events & Programs

  • Community Gardens

  • Mobility Mentoring

  • Financial Literacy Classes

  • Parent Advisory Committee

  • Nutrition Education

  • Health Resources & Referrals

  • Job Search Opportunities

Finding a Community of Hope in your neighborhood

The caring staff at the Seaford Community of Hope Family Resource Centers stand ready to serve anyone from the Seaford area who comes through our doors, with a special focus on our Meadowbridge and Chandler Heights neighbors. Nou pale kreyòl la. Se habla español aquí'.

Meadowbridge Family Resource Center

Brentdy Chavez

302-551-9663

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Chandler Heights Family Resource Center

Shelley Waters

302-932-4144

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Questions? Need Help? Want to Get Involved?

Midline Oware, Program Manager

302-605-6598

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The SCOH initiative was built collaboratively, with early partners that included Delaware’s First Lady, Tracey Quillen Carney, as part of her First Chance initiative, Children & Families First, First State Community Action Agency, Sussex County Health Coalition, and the Delaware Division of Family Services (DFS).  

 

Current Project Funders Include:

Casey Family Programs, Healthy Communities Delaware, Christiana care Health Systems, the Laffey-McHugh Foundation, and Prevent Child Abuse Delaware

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