The Hunters Point Family (HPF) is a grass-roots, community-based, youth development agency that provides holistic educational, social, and enrichment programs to youth and their families living in the primarily African American Bayview Hunters Point community of San Francisco.

The mission of The Hunters Point Family is to prepare youth to become independent, strong, and productive adults through comprehensive support services that empower them to develop their full potential.

Since 1997, HPF has used a distinctive family-based model to create social, educational, and recreational services that build supportive and interdependent relationships among the participants and staff. All activities are informed by the culture of the neighborhood, allowing the youth to thrive in their own community. Through their three collaborating programs, the agency provides services to over 200 youth (ages 10-22) and their families, each year.

Although San Francisco is renowned throughout the world for its beauty, enlightenment, and progressiveness, children living in the Bayview Hunters Point community – located in the southeast sector of the City – live a very different existence. Children of Bayview Hunters Point must endure the harsh reality of poverty¹, rampant drug abuse, and overwhelming violence^2. HPF inspires hope in these children so that they may rise and face the world with courage, love, and reverence for life.  Perhaps the organization’s greatest impact is giving youth a feeling of belonging to an extended family, which provides them with a safety net of caring people committed to their growth and development.

1 Over 70% of public housing residents (the target population of the Hunters Point Family) have incomes below the federal poverty level of $14,739 for a family of four.

2 In 2005, there were 96 homicides in San Francisco with over 85% occurring within the young, African American population.