Compassion, Empowerment, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect, Safety


Saundra R. Cherry

Mission: To provide safe shelter, comprehensive support services, and pathways to independence for displaced women and children, fostering healing, resilience, and sustainable futures.

Hands for the Healing Hearts, founded in 2025, serves Smith County dedicated to supporting displaced women and children. The organization offers a transitional approach to growth and sustainability. The goal is for women to become self-sufficient for themselves and children.

Vision: A community where every displaced woman and child has access to the resources and support needed to thrive, free from violence, poverty, and displacement.
Hands For The Healing Hearts Organization is directly addressing a critical, often hidden crisis right here in our community. While recent data shows our overall local homeless population has decreased to 273 individuals, a deeply vulnerable segment of our community continues to suffer in silence: homeless women.
According to regional demographic data, women make up approximately 29% of the local homeless population. In Smith County, this translates to dozens of mothers, daughters, and sisters facing the dangers of housing instability, domestic violence, and poverty without a safe place to turn.
At Hands For The Healing Hearts, we believe every woman deserves safety, dignity, and a path to a stable future. However, providing emergency shelter, medical support, and long-term stabilization resources requires immediate funding. Your generosity fills the gaps that statistics cannot measure—transforming numbers on a page into lives saved, families reunited, and hearts healed.
Donate today to help us provide critical shelter and comprehensive care for the displaced women of Smith County.

Tyler Family Assistance
903-526-6757
www.fbctyler.org/about-us/ministhy/tyler-family-assistance-center/
Phone number: 214-778-5417 Email: Volunteer@handsforthehealinghearts.org
Hours have been revised from the video message
Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Closed Saturday & Sunday
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