President’s Yearend Report 2017!

Hope Family Villagers: Happy New Year! May you be safe and warm today. First, I want to thank you all for the notes of encouragement and support. It’s not the amount of time you put in, it’s that you have been there. You are part of a nucleus that has become an organization, a public

Hope Family Village Achieves 501(c)3 Status

Welcome to Hope Family Village. Hope Family Village is a community-centric collaborative, offering acceptance, housing, and sustainable support for people with mental health conditions and their families.   Our first project, and an original reason for our creation: Develop an inclusive village, where 25 caregiving families and their loved ones. who endure serious mental illness, live on 25 acres. We

Hope Family Village: Proud Fairweather Supporter

When you see organizations, like the Coalition for Community Living, and committed people being successful, it’s inspirational and motivational. We can see all that is possible. There is hope for people who endure serious mental illness. Living options exist. Hope Family Village not only believes that, we already see our village at Eastern State, serving

33rd Annual Fairweather Lodge Conference

Welcome to Hope Family Village. Now incorporated, we continue to move forward on many fronts. Scott, Corey, and Matt In late September, Matt, Scott and I attended the 33rd Annual Fairweather Lodge Conference in Erie, PA. There were 100 participants. Organized and hosted by Stairways Behavioral Health, we were treated to discussions of veterans lodges;

Welcome to Hope Family Village!

By now, many of you have received our business card. You are coming to see us for the first time.My name is W. Corey Trench and, along with others, I am one of the co-founders of Hope Family Village (Williamsburg, VA). (Ed. 12/12/17: President, Director of Hope Family Corporation 501(c)3.) Until we have an official web

Hope Family Village Incorporates in Virginia

Hope Family Village has filed its application for incorporation in Virginia. We have reserved several different web domain names. We have prepared the documentation for and applying for nonprofit status with the IRS. As soon as the Commonwealth approves our application, we file our papers with the IRS. Our mission: Hope Family Village is a community-centric collaborative, offering

Fairweather Lodge Re-Visits Williamsburg

John Trepp (2nd from left), CEO of the Coalition for Community Livingfacilitates discussion of Fairweather Lodge Residents (The Woodlands, Williamsburg, VA) The Coalition for Community Living (CCL) returned to Williamsburg to give a presentation on Fairweather Lodge. This is the second time the board has come to town. This year they met at Colonial Williamsburg Woodlands

W&M MBA Completes Study for Hope Village

In August 2016, on behalf of our five families (from Williamsburg and Gloucester NAMI Affiliates), several of us (Tom Rideout and Allen Whitehead) put together a scope of work for an MBA Corporate Field Consultancy (CFC) Project with the College of William and Mary. The Entire CFC Team The project was extremely ambitious, but sought