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Agency & Community Partners

Hope's ministry is supported by a number of community partners.

• Washtenaw United Way - Hope Clinic is a United Way Agency.

• Food Gatherers provides much of the food we use at our weekend meals and helps us access food for our food bank at a very low cost.

• Salvation Army allows us to use their building for our weekend meals.

• St. Joseph Mercy Health System provides free lab work, x-rays and many other services for Hope patients who meet their charity care income requirements.

• St. Mary Mercy Hospital provides free lab work to patients of the Wayne Satellite Clinic.

• The University of Michigan

  • Dental and hygiene students from the University of Michigan Dental School provide dental services at the Dental Clinic on a rotating basis.

  • University of Michigan College of Pharmacy places pharmacists and students at the Ypsilanti medical clinic and facilitates relationships with other UofM departments and community partners.

  • The University of Michigan Medical School places doctors at Hope Medical Clinic from the departments of Family Medicine and Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases.

  • The University of Michigan Health System provides facilities for free otolaryngology and ophthalmology services provided by volunteer UM physicians and staff and helps Hope patients enroll for gastroenterology services.

  • The University of Michigan School of Social Work provides interns for Hope programs.

• Washtenaw Community College provides space and other support for the Boost and Step Program, a three week back-to-school readiness program and student interns for Hope programs.

• Concordia University provides student interns for Hope's programs.

• Washtenaw County MSU Extension Services holds a weekly parenting class at Hope Center.

• Hope Dental Clinic partners with Washtenaw Head Start to help Head Start children and their families access dental services.

• Ypsilanti Thrift Shop provides monthly support to Hope's financial assistance program enabling us to help 10-15 families each month to avoid eviction or utility shut off or meet other emergency financial needs.



• Lions Club provides funds for eyeglasses, including many prescribed for
  medical clinic patients by University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center volunteers.

Hope also collaborates with or is a member of a number of other community organizations and agencies

• Community Dental Center
• Department of Human Services Board of Directors
• Eastern Michigan University Vision Office
• Free Clinics of Michigan
• Free Clinics of the Great Lakes Region
• Friends in Deed
• Gateway Community & Economic Development Corp.
• Heritage Park Neighborhood Association
• New Center
• Notre Dame Alumni Club - Ann Arbor Chapter
• Packard Health
• Pastoral Alliance for County Transformation
• Power Inc.
• Parents Together
• University of Michigan Multicultural Health Research Project Community Advisory Board
• University of Michigan VIEW (Volunteers in Every Week)
• SOS Community Services
• Ypsilanti Area Chamber of Commerce
• Ypsilanti Health Coalition
• Ypsilanti Healthy Food Access Initiative

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