Our structured residential program, educational supports, mental health counseling, and spiritual guidance help to stabilize young women and their children impacted by weak family and community connections, trauma, neglect and abuse.

The Mary Elizabeth House programs provide parenting and life-skills training, individualized counseling and an early childhood development program. Together these vital programs support and strengthen individuals and families.

The life outcomes for youth, especially pregnant or parenting youth, emerging from the foster care system are bleak. Research shows they are less likely to graduate from high school, and more likely to be unemployed, and homeless. The Mary Elizabeth House is committed to reversing the trends caused by neglect and disinvestment and to empowering and strengthening young women to build self-sustaining families, and meaningful lives.