The Hope Resource Center

10/19/2026

The Hope Dealer Community | The Hope Resource Center was featured on BBC News!

In the BBC News story, “America’s Synthetic Drug Crisis”, our own Jamey is shown swabbing drug paraphernalia to be sent to a lab for testing to find out what’s actually in the drugs people are using.

The results were alarming. The person believed they were buying fentanyl. But the lab found it was also mixed with xylazine and medetomidine which are two powerful animal tranquilizers showing up more and more in the street supply, and that naloxone alone cannot reverse.

The Hope Resource Center, in partnership with Franklin County Public Health, samples paraphernalia right here in our community to track what is really in the drug supply in Franklin County.

📺 Watch the BBC News story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlejQVL_YD8

10/14/2026

See ya tonight at 6:30!

10/05/2026

What up Parsons Ave & E Morrill Ave. It's been a minute. Last time we spent anytime together I was contributing to the chaos and the nonsense. Today we are showing up differently. Today is the launch of the Mobile Hope Center! Looking forward to getting reacquainted. We got a van full of Hope. We carry the solution. There is a way forward.

The Hope Resource Center serves Columbus residents fighting addiction, homelessness, and mental health challenges in disadvantaged neighborhoods with high rates of overdoses, poverty, and human trafficking. Our Resource Centers provide a pipeline from life-threatening addiction and homelessness to lasting sobriety, community engagement, family reunification, and employment, restoring hope and human potential. We meet clients' acute needs by providing meals, clothing, and hygiene items, and through access to recovery and mental health services including detox, treatment, and sober living. We meet clients’ long-term needs with transitional services, ongoing peer support, and our five weekly recovery meetings. Several clients have transitioned from homelessness and active addiction to Hope employment as licensed peer-support specialists. Our model breaks cycles of addiction, household instability, and economic hardship.

10/02/2026

Franklin County Public Defenders will be at The Hope Resource Center to set aside misdemeanor warrants and reschedule court dates and to answer questions on other cases. Walk-ins start at 11:30am-2pm. Open to all!

09/23/2026

6 fatal overdoses in 24 hours!

According to the Franklin County Coroner’s Office, there have been six suspected overdose deaths in the last 24 hours. Any drug you take that doesn’t come from a pharmacy can be laced and kill you.

Know the signs of an overdose and make sure you have naloxone on hand. If an overdose happens, tell someone to call 911. Find where to get naloxone or order naloxone by mail at Columbus.gov/cfcap.

09/18/2026

Happening today! Friday, Sept 18! Open to all residents of Columbus.

Today, Friday, September 18 at our Hilltop location at 496 S. Wheatland Ave 43204 between 11am-1pm.

09/16/2026

We are taking The Hope Resource Center to the streets!
Introducing the Mobile Hope Center! We are headed to the alleys and backstreets of Columbus that are hardest hit by the despair and hopelessness of addiction. Our purpose is to carry the message that there is a way out!

Thank you to the Elfers Family Foundation and the Ohio
Department of Health for funding this program.

The Hope Resource Center serves Columbus residents fighting addiction, homelessness, and mental health challenges in disadvantaged neighborhoods with high rates of overdoses, poverty, and human trafficking. Our Resource Centers provide a pipeline from life-threatening addiction and homelessness to lasting sobriety, community engagement, family reunification, and employment, restoring hope and human potential. We meet clients' acute needs by providing meals, clothing, and hygiene items, and through access to recovery and mental health services including detox, treatment, and sober living. We meet clients’ long-term needs with transitional services, ongoing peer support, and our five weekly recovery meetings. Several clients have transitioned from homelessness and active addiction to Hope employment as licensed peer-support specialists. Our model breaks cycles of addiction, household instability, and economic hardship.

09/13/2026

09/10/2026

Our dear friends at Heart to Heart Food Pantry were on hand at our Hilltop location. Heart to Heart is a mission of First Community (https://fcchurch.com/) and they are the best people I know. They have been coming by The Hope Resource Center for years and there dedication is unwavering. I noticed this verse on their website - "And what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”
That is who they are.

09/07/2026

The Hope Resource Center is closed today, Monday, September 7. See ya' Tuesday in Linden and Wednesday on the Hilltop.