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Since 1978 New Hope Housing has been providing a comprehensive, innovative array of services to homeless families and single adults. We serve only persons who are homeless; New Hope Housing is the oldest and largest provider of shelter beds in northern Virginia. Grounded in our vision, mission and core values, we offer innovative responses to homelessness in the spirit of hope and hospitality, taking in anyone in need and not giving up until we have exhausted all possible avenues of change. New Hope Housing's philosophy and approach to services are grounded in two programs that are foundational to our way of operating. The first is The Mandt System®, a systematic training program that teaches the use of a graded system of alternatives to escalating conflict. The Mandt System is based on the principle that all people have the right to be treated with dignity and respect. New Hope Housing has certified Mandt trainers on its staff and provides Mandt training for all staff in order to create an environment of dignity and respect, resulting in a sense of hope and hospitality for residents. Our second foundational program is Out of Poverty (OOP), a structured curriculum designed to foster personal transformation. Developed by an educator and a social worker, the curriculum fosters the mental, emotional and behavioral changes necessary to intervene in the poverty cycle and build a different future. The program uses a group process and helps each individual to accept responsibility for his/her life experiences and to develop methods of moving beyond those experiences while learning new behaviors. The OOP lessons include self-management, work relevant values and self-determination, and tools such as action planning, mental rehearsal, understanding personal responsibility, and the keys to negotiating differences.