Supporting the Healthy Development of Young Women and their Children
We provide life-skills training and support for young mothers who are in or have aged-out of the child welfare system. All of our young mothers have experienced family disruption and a host of other challenges that substantially impact their lives.
The Mary Elizabeth House offers the kind of nurturing environment young mothers need to become self- directed adults with skills in home management, employment, educational attainment and supportive parenting.
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Stability
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.
How We work
Eliminating poverty two generations at a time
The Mary Elizabeth House embraces the “Two-Generation” approach by addressing the needs of both children and parents concurrently. Our organization supports young mothers, between the ages of 17 and 24, in a supportive five-year housing program. The children benefit from our AsA Early Learning Academy (preschool program) which is also open to community children.
The Mary Elizabeth House assumes the full cost of maintaining our independent living facility and of all the programming provided to participants during their stay.
Strengthening
Families
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.
Our pillars of service
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Changing
Lives
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.
HElp us Strengthen families and change lives for generations to come.
When you donate to The Mary Elizabeth House, your gift has a transformative and lasting effect.
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Companion Series: Journal & Training Manual
This work has been designed for the benefit of young, African American people who must learn how to dream of a world where they have meaning and purpose and power. Cultivating their imagination such that it becomes creative and purpose driven will pave the way for them to design meaningful lives that can change the world.
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