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About Us
Hope's Door New Beginning Center provides free trauma informed services promoting, safety, healing, advocacy and prevention for domestic abuse survivors and their children.
Survivor Video
We're proud to share our Survivor Video with you today, on North Texas Giving Day! This video is the result of a collaboration between HDNBC staff, survivors served by Hope's Door New Beginning Center, and Rusty Hann of Spirit Media. Initially shown at the 2023 Tapestry of Hope, we are proud to share it today with the rest of our supporters and community.
Our Impact on the Community
In 2023, our crisis advocates answered 9,482 calls to our emergency hotline and we provided 14,222 nights in our emergency shelters for adults and children fleeing abuse.
Once those individuals were ready to move to their own place, we assisted 274 people through our transitional housing program. All clients, adults and children, are eligible for counseling and 8,745 hours of adult trauma support and 668 hours of child trauma support were provided last year. Additionally, our legal department provided 2,110 hours of legal services to clients.
Our community educators educated 12,155 individuals and 324 clients were served through our Battering Intervention and Prevention Program (BIPP).
Prevention Services
Our community educators enhance the community’s capacity to recognize and respond to abuse through free educational programming to schools and organizations, while our certified BIPP facilitators help individuals who have exhibited controlling or abusive behaviors in the past achieve healthy and non-violent conflict resolution skills.
Plano and Garland Locations
Hope’s Door New Beginning Center has two Outreach Centers and two shelters, one each in Plano and Garland. In 2016, two organizations, Hope’s Door and New Beginning Center, merged to form one agency. Services are provided free of charge to individuals and families affected by domestic abuse.
Our History
Hope’s Door, located in Plano, was established in 1985 as the result of a local needs assessment study commissioned by the Junior League of Plano. At that time, Collin County was the only densely populated area without a full-service shelter for victims of domestic violence. While searching for a permanent facility to house the shelter, Hope’s Door offered safe shelter to victims of abuse using community hotels and a 24-hour crisis line. The shelter was opened in March 1989.
New Beginning Center, located in Garland, was established in 1983 by the members of the Garland Service League and initially provided women’s counseling services. The New Beginning Center emergency shelter opened in 1998 which also added a fully staffed 24-hour crisis hotline.
Over time, both agencies were able to offer more extensive counseling services for adults, children, and adolescents, legal services, transitional housing, an education center, and a Battering Intervention and Prevention Program (BIPP).
In 2016, the organizations merged to form Hope’s Door New Beginning Center and continue to provide services in Dallas, Garland, Plano, and the surrounding cities in North Texas.
Board of Directors
Dana Cooper, Veritex Community Bank
Kevin Henderson, FlowServe Corp
Matt Nesmith, Emerson
Charli Pels, Frost Bank
Susan Rahe, Celanese Corp.
Kelly Rakowski, AMN Healthcare
Jessica Salcido, McAfee Inc.
Cindy Bryant, Bryant Reyna Group
Greg Salcido, Arugula Sciences
Laura Caston, QSLWM Law
Veronica Andrulat, Parkland Health Foundation
Kala Ramachandra, ExtraHop
Jenn Randles, RSM US LLP
More Information
For more information about our agency or the services we provide, please call our Outreach Center at (972) 422-2911 or send an email to info@hdnbc.org. If you need immediate help, please call our 24-Hour Hotline at 972-276-0057 or 911 if you are in physical danger.
Hope's Door New Beginning Center's mission is to offer intervention and prevention services to individuals and families affected by intimate partner and family violence and to provide educational programs that enhance the community's capacity to respond.
Many survivors come to our doors with just a bag, quickly stuffed with a few essentials, and some with terrified children, torn from their home, school, and friends. Tired and anxious about the future, their shoulders begin to relax as they are welcomed with a hot cup of coffee, dinner, toiletries, and towels on their way to one of 55 safe beds that we have available between our 2 emergency shelters. We help them along their path by providing safety, advocacy, healing, and prevention.
2023 was a year of highs and lows for victims. The increase in mass shootings, most with some connection to family violence, has rocked our community. Calls to our emergency hotline have grown by 58% since 2019. Services for adults and children have increased by 42% in that same time. Our shelters are overflowing into hotels. At HDNBC, children and adults tell us daily about the dangerous people in their lives – their trauma is real and intense. And yet, the opportunity to break free from an abusive relationship and build a hope-filled future is an urgent call we are answering at HDNBC.
With your support, we continue our work with survivors as they start their journey towards a new beginning. Thank you for being a crucial partner with us. Because of you, we are changing lives and stopping the cycle of violence for so many.
HDNBC is committed to eliminating discrimination due to race, ethnic, physical or mental disabilities, age, gender, pregnancy, sex or sexual orientation, national origin, religion, ancestry, or socioeconomic status by prioritizing a culturally resonant response to all forms of abuse. This work is necessary and ongoing as cultural frameworks are never rigid, and ever evolving. This statement applies to our staff members as well as our clients accessing services.
Organization name
Hope's Door New Beginning Center
Causes
Domestic/Family Violence & Advocacy
Operating Budget
$3,000,000 - $9,999,999
Counties Served
Collin, Dallas
BIPOC Serving
Black or African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic or Latinx, Native American, Other
BIPOC Leadership
Neither/None
Equity Statement
Equity Statement
Address
860 F Avenue, Suite 100