Hope At Hand, Inc

Hope at Hand's poetry programming provides unique Arts and Culture experiences for North Florida. Our core programming offers weekly poetry sessions for youth-based organizations serving at-risk teens and children. For adults, we offer events, virtual workshops, and exhibits to engage our wider local community. Hope at Hand offers two distinct poetry opportunities: 1) poetry programming in collaboration with social service agencies and 2) public events/poetry festivals. Children and teens who are struggling with difficult situations, poverty or isolated by circumstances beyond their control may not even know that they want to express their frustration, their dreams, their hope to a supportive community. Hope at Hand is able to connect with vulnerable youth, creating a safe space for them to trust others, and process thoughts and feelings while considering the concepts of confidence, self-esteem, choice and change. Opening up, reaching out and connecting can seem impossible, even unimaginable. Hope at Hand can help. Free If I could be free that's all it would take. I’d roam this Earth to clear all of my mistakes. If I could be free, I’d flow like the wind. I’d set sail on the water, go to sleep, wake up and start over again. If I could be free I'd never leave home. But I do realize at this point the word free is unknown-incarcerated girl with Hope at Hand Pretrial Detention Facility all my life I felt incompetent saw myself as the runt of the litter insignificant, but I’m starting to conceive the idea that that’s just society talking -teenage boy in recovery with Hope at Hand my daddy is locked up and my momma is gone the only thing that keeps me rooted is showing the world that I am not useless -teenage boy in recovery with Hope at Hand