Hope House adds board members

YOUNGSTOWN -- Hope House Visitation Center Inc. has added three members to its board of directors: Gerald L. Thomas, retired personnel administrator, manager and teacher at Youngstown State University; Atty. Christine Blair Legow, associate director of Northeast Ohio Legal Services; and Karen J. DeAmicis, vice president of Home Savings and Loan Co. The center is a nonprofit facility that opened in July 2000 and provides a homelike, child-friendly environment for supervised visitation, parenting time, supervised exchanges between residential and nonresidential parents and other programs to further the development of healthy parent-child relationships.