Esperanza Center has been a constant fixture in the immigrant services landscape in Baltimore since its founding as the Hispanic Apostolate in 1963. Esperanza Center became a program of Catholic Charities of Baltimore in the early 1980s and offers services in five areas: healthcare; education (particularly for English for Speakers of Other Languages); immigration legal services; social services; and community referrals and resources.

Esperanza Center is core to HEAL’s work as it houses HEAL’s medical and forensic evaluation services. Medical services for survivors of torture and forensic evaluations for immigrants seeking humanitarian protection in the U.S. are provided through Esperanza Center’s Health Services Clinic. HEAL and Esperanza Center also collaborate on psychosocial programming to support unaccompanied immigrant youth.