Our Parent Organization

Good Samaritan Community Services, Inc. (GSCS) is a community based organization located in the North Lawndale area of Chicago, Illinois. GSCS was founded in 1989 by Dr. Lincoln Scott who learned of two men frozen to death in a doorway that he had passed some nights before. Touched by this incident and propelled by his desire to not let this happen again, Good Samaritan Community Services was born as a way to meet the needs of the community.

GSCS provides many programs for the community. Our current CEO has serviced the North Lawndale community since 1971. His vision, guidance, and overall community efforts has allowed GSCS to run a multitude of programs and services.

Global Educations Solutions, Inc., (GESI) our newest partner, was formed in 2009 to develop exciting and innovative program for our families in response to societal changes based on a global perspective. GESI is designed to propel educational, economic and social change. Its vision is to assist disenfranchised and disadvantaged communities attain independence and economic self-sufficiency through education and engagement; allowing them to become autonomous, self-reliant locales by providing comprehensive learning initiatives, seminars and support services to address the educational and economic needs of disenfranchised and disadvantaged communities.

About Hope House

Hope House of Chicago (HHC) created in 1995, offer weekly feedings of 100-200 persons two times a day; clothes drives and referral services are provided free of charge to the surrounding neighborhood.

Hope House provides dormitory style living, sleeping arrangements and laundry facilities for 55 homeless men with 24 hour supervision 365 days a year. This shelter, which is a haven for men struggling with substance abuse, mental illness or other dysfunctional behavioral patterns, provides extensive case management services. Services provided include:

• Outreach, client assessment, planning, referrals, advocacy and counseling
• Assistance geared toward helping individual residents establish a supportive network of providers, family and others who desire to help them over come the circumstances and conditions, which led to their homelessness
• Three square meals a day
• Medical, drug, alcohol and basic health screening
• Adult literacy training
• Group therapy along with individual spiritual guidance and counseling
• Life style enrichment classes, vocational training, job readiness assessments and job referrals.

GSCS also provides life skills to men, women, and children; address emergency needs through referrals and in-house contributions and during the summer months we facilitate summer jobs through the Chicago Department of Human Services in addition to providing daily meals for the children during the summer. GSCS is also committed to improving the health of the neighborhood as well by providing in house care through Carefirst Home Health services. Our seniors and disabled residents are able to receive several types of treatments, blood pressure checks, heart monitoring, breathing analysis, etc. We have offered state wide youth safety initiative with Illinois Violence Prevention Authority, through the Safety Networks program and we service youth through a multitude of activities, civic engagement and resource referrals. GSCS contributes to the entire community through several linkage agreements with state, local, and neighborhood programs and initiatives.

Throughout the years we have fostered leadership abilities by collaborating with several programs. Allowing those programs to build upon our mission and vision, while growing our capacity to lead by example, we commit to each program managers’ leadership abilities which allow us to service the entire community, from the young to the old

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