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Hope Mission, a Christian social care agency,
began in 1929 as a soup kitchen serving meals to hundreds of
people struggling with unemployment and homelessness at the
onset of the Depression.
Hope Mission was incorporated as a society
under the Alberta Provincial Government Society Act in 1957.
Hope Mission currently operates a men’s
emergency shelter (Herb Jamieson Centre), a residence for
at-risk women with or without children (Women’s Centre), a
youth outreach centre (R.W. Tegler Youth Sports Centre), an
activity and hot meal program to low income area elementary
schools (Kids In Action), a Youth Shelter, a Women's emergency
shelter, a Ministry Van, an Intox/Detox Centre, Transitional
Housing, an Emergency Mat program and a summer camp for
underprivileged youth and children (Brightwood Ranch).
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