With the help of her sister Kathy, the Rosales and Santos family, and a group of passionate friends, the doors of House of Hope opened in 2002 and later became a medical facility in 2007.

In 2010, Nydia Correa became the new director of House of Hope and over the following six years, she became aware of the changing and growing gap in women and family health care in El Paso. There is little focus on basic proactive well-woman care, and existing family resources are often unknown, spread across the city, and difficult to access. Furthermore, House of Hope lacked strong name recognition and branding. in 2016, Nydia learned about the vision and mission of The Guiding Star Project and recognized it as the solution to meet these needs in El Paso, announcing our change to Guiding Star Southwest at our 2017 Gala to over 1,100 supporters.

This new vision includes moving into a new, larger building in May 2018 and then sub-leasing office space to like-minded, life-affirming care providers to create a “one-stop supercenter” of holistic, comprehensive well-woman and family care—all under one roof, in one convenient, professional, welcoming location—with a mission of working together to build a local culture of life. This flexible model will facilitate cooperation to provide support for natural means of family planning, fertility and infertility care, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, adoption, pregnancy loss, post-abortion care, marriage, and family life. We are exploring partnerships with care providers in areas such as obstetrics and gynecology, natural osteopathy, nutrition, doula and midwifery, lactation consulting, various holistic therapies, and community outreach. If you are a care provider interested in learning more about becoming a Guiding Star partner, please contact us.

Guiding Star Southwest is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit that is funded by TPCN and the generosity of the El Paso community and our surrounding region.