Tina
She had tried every program and treatment center and relapsed again and again. Trauma work finally reached the root. She has been clean six years and works at a treatment center helping other women with long histories of relapse.
HopeDignityHealingCommunity
Transforming communities, one woman at a time.
For more than twenty years the Hoff Foundation has walked homeless, addicted, abused and trafficked women from the streets to safety, healing, housing and purpose. Now we are bringing that model to churches and communities across America.
Sandra Stringham, Judy Hoff and Lisa Leonard. Photo: Bo Brusco, Lynnwood Times
14,547+Clients served
65,383+Meals served
4,460+Volunteer hours
1,460+Showers provided
At Esther's Place, our day center in Everett, Washington. Imagine one in every city.
Sandra Stringham. Photo: Bo Brusco, Lynnwood Times
The goal right now
$75,000 to keep the doors open
On October 1, guests filled the room for the Hoff Foundation Vision Dinner in support of Esther's Place and the New Creation Communities recovery homes. Women who once came in off the street stood up and told how they went on to lead.
The foundation set a goal of $75,000, the amount it takes to keep helping women and children through the doors and into housing. Beyond that, the vision is an industrial kitchen, more showers, laundry and classrooms, serving each woman "from her initial welcome to her 'Welcome home.'"
"The people that we help, that you help with your money, they go out and then they help."
Spoken at the Vision Dinner, as reported in Mill Creek View
Mail a gift to The Hoff Foundation, P.O. Box 904, Everett, WA 98206, or call (425) 374-2329.
The ripple effect
One act of compassion. Thousands of lives.
It started when Pastor Judy Hoff stopped for one woman digging through a garbage can. A woman comes to Esther's Place broken and hopeless. She gets clean, gets housed, gets her life back. Then she turns around and helps the next woman, and that woman helps another.
That is how thousands have been helped. The Hoff Foundation was built so that same ripple can start in any city.
What we do
From the street to self-sufficiency
Programs
Esther's Place, housing and healing
A day center, two state-certified recovery homes, Trauma Reboot, Queen It's a New Day and community dinners.
Books
Seizing Compassion
Judy's roadmap for a movement of people helping people, in paperback, Kindle and an audiobook she narrates herself.
Courses
Local now, online soon
Step-by-step training so churches and leaders can duplicate what the Hoff Foundation has built. Email Judy about local courses.
Lives changed
Real women. Real transformations.
"The only thing that has changed for me has indeed been everything. God is restoring me to the person He created me to be, and not the person I became."
Christine, Queen It's a New Day graduate, from Seizing Compassion
Maria
She aged out of foster care with nothing. With help finishing school, childcare and job training, she became a nursing assistant, and the cycle of poverty and neglect stopped with her.
Eleanor
Widowed and left in debt, she was sleeping in her car. Esther's Place helped her into senior housing. Today she volunteers, helping other older women start over.
Rachel
She shared her real name only after months of patient presence. Today she works with law enforcement to help identify and rescue other trafficking victims.
Stories from Seizing Compassion by Judy Hoff.
From Everett to every city
Judy's dream was always bigger than one town.
She built the Hoff Foundation as a model any community can duplicate. Churches that read the book together, order it in bulk and take the courses can bring the same programs home.