Project HOPE currently provides services through four primary programs:
Hope Link is a program of Project HOPE Foundation designed to help families deal with the challenges of autism by providing information about autism spectrum disorders, including symptoms, therapies, interventions, services, funding options, and coping skills. Since 1997, Project HOPE Foundation has assisted over 1,000 families by providing them with hands-on attention. We just released a new DVD, Understanding Autism: A Resource for Families, Pediatricians, and Caregivers, to broaden the scope of these services. View the trailer for this DVD.
Hope Reach
In our Hope Reach program, we open minds by providing 25-40 hours per week of intense Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy focusing on language, behavioral, social, and cognitive skills to over 60 children with autism. Hope Reach is the only nonprofit provider of this therapy in Upstate South Carolina. It is also the only Upstate provider with a clinic-based option for services.
We promote inclusion through Hope Academy, a school specifically designed to provide children with autism the opportunity to learn in classrooms with typical peers and a typical curriculum. Since its inception in 1997, this unique school has served over 1,000 children, building relationships that have changed lives. Hope Academy currently has a waiting list of over 80 children with autism.
Our newest endeavor, Hope Alive is an innovative approach to expand potential of children, youth and young adults with autism who are not best served through the traditional model of grouping people with wide-ranging disabilities as a single unit.