Northeast Indiana Christian Action Council Educational and Charitable Fund, Inc.

Motivated by the love of Christ, A Hope Center heals hearts and saves lives by providing free pregnancy services, resources, and education to nurture sexual, emotional, and spiritual health. We love Christ because Christ first loved us. We have the opportunity to get to know people who are struggling with an unplanned pregnancy and feel hopeless in their circumstances. Difficult emotional pain is sometimes expressed in rushed and pressured pregnancy decisions. We help clients in this situation with a message of hope, excellent medical services, and accurate options for education. Without judgment, we share the truth in love and promise to walk our clients beyond their pregnancy decisions.

The goal at A Hope Center is to care for our clients on a holistic level in the best way possible. To do this, we offer a wide array of services, including pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection testing, limited medical ultrasounds, the Earn While You Learn program, fatherhood mentorship, pregnancy loss support group, and post-abortion recovery support.

In 2018, A Hope Center started a Medical Mobile Ministry to help combat the high fetal and infant mortality rate faced by Fort Wayne. With the medical mobile unit, we can go to locations around Fort Wayne and Allen County where potential clients may not have access to medical care or transportation.

A Hope Center's services are free AND confidential; all HIPAA rules are followed as we are a limited medical facility.

A Hope Center uses programs like Earn While You Learn to educated parents and parents-to-be about healthy pregnancies, healthy relationships, infant feeding, CPR, safe sleep, etc. In exchange, clients are rewarded with bonus bucks that they can use to shop in our stores to "purchase" items such as diapers, wipes, and cribs.

A Hope Center employs 16 staff members and has over 30 volunteers that see clients, perform administrative tasks, etc. All testing is done by a PA, RN, or LPN. A nurse manager is on staff, and a volunteer medical director signs off on all testing, ultrasounds, etc.

A Hope Center also employs a social worker and strives to refer clients to any community resources if they need services not performed at the centers.

A Hope Center has been in existence for 37 years. During that time, operations have grown to three centers and a medical mobile unit. ABetter Business Bureau of Northern Indiana has also awarded a Hope Centeras a Charity of Integrity in 2019.