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Meet Hope

Hope Sayre first experienced homelessness was she was 14 years old. Her parents kicked her out of the house for partying too much. So, she spent several years couch-surfing, squatting in houses, and living in her car. Eventually, she got pregnant, got arrested, and decided to seek treatment for her drug addiction.

“Mr. Greg Franklin from Shelter Car helped me.” Hope explains. “He helped me find an apartment that wasn’t in a ‘drug-accessible’ neighborhood, he made sure I had hot meals, and even supplied my children and me with Christmas gifts.”

Hope has been clean since 2019 and is now the chairperson of the Youth Advisory Board for the Summit Continuum of Care. She has her own place, she has a car, and she is back with her children.

“If this community hadn’t had the funds to help the programs that helped me, I know that my children would still be in foster care, and I’d probably still be using or dead,” Hope says. “I certainly wouldn’t have the life I have today.”