Home of Hope, Inc. was founded in 1968 by Jane Hartley and Laura Cupp-Neely, two mothers of children with Down syndrome. Both had been searching for the best opportunities for their children to have a productive and meaningful life when they reached adulthood. To have happiness. They found Ruth Smith, whose own daughter had Down syndrome, and they did what people of exceptional vision do; they saw a solution where others only saw a problem, and they pursued it until it became a reality.