Helping Hands: our story
In 1999, Helping Hands Community Outreach Center was created to formalize emerging neighborhood collaboration in the rural section of Dayton between action oriented church members and volunteers.
Too often small, experimental programs take shape and vanish without much fanfare. Never the less, they spark action and provide concrete assistance for tackling some of the "big" issues facing low-income communities such as a shortage of affordable and decent housing and after school programs.
Helping Hands will focus on the work of helping to alleviate such problems through many of our projects. Now heading into our tenth year of operation, we are in collaboration with the West Dayton Service Network and a HUD approved affiliate member of Mission of Peace, our national intermediary partner. The aim of our program is to assist members of our community to become homeowners, as well as to implement a creative after school program. All different facets of Helping Hands aim to build the capacities of self-actualization that extends outward to strengthen community cohesion.
Helping Hands staff:
- Director: Neldra Aaron Glasper
- Executive Administrator: Letha Renee Payne
- Contributing Editor: Portia Payne Belden, Ph.D
- Volunteer Coordinator: Rocale Bumpus
- Youth Coordinators: Jamar Smith and Joshua Payne
- Program Coordinator: Dorothy Phillips
- Deputy Director: Joseph Munson
- Community Program Leader: Katina Gibson
- Data Entry: Ameldra Williams
- Housing Counselor & Outreach Coordinator: Christie Claytor
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