Provides housing for pregnant and parenting women in need who can stay until the baby is 9 months old.

The Hannah House | The Hannah House

Programs that provide shelter, care and support services, which often include counseling regarding future plans and instruction in child care and development, for pregnant individuals who are unable to remain in their own homes.

Maternity Homes

The Elizabeth House | The Elizabeth House

The Magdalene House | The Magdalene House

Provides family planning services for women in crisis pregnancies. Includes support, counseling, maternity housing. Provides adoption guidance for birthparents and potential adoptive parents.

Mother Goose Adoptions of Arizona, Inc | Mother Goose Adoptions of Arizona, Inc

Programs that provide guidance and support for potential adoptive parents including assistance in understanding and evaluating the impact of adoption on their own lives.

Preadoption Counseling and Support

Programs that accept new or secondhand clothing that people can wear during pregnancy, repair the items if necessary, and keep the clothing for use in their own programs, donate it to shelters and other community-based organizations for distribution to the people they serve, or sell it to raise money for agency programs.

Maternity Clothing Donation Programs

Divisions of businesses or nonprofit agencies that are responsible for developing products or delivering designated services to the public. Departments of NGOs are generally led by a manager, supervisor, director or vice president.

Nongovernmental Agency Departments

Programs that provide assistance for people who want to control the size of their families and the spacing of their children, usually through some form of birth control; who want to explore options for conceiving; who have a problem with infertility; or who have questions about the advisability of becoming pregnant or following through with a current pregnancy.

Family Planning

Provides health supported family housing for pregnant and parenting women. Provides fitness and nutrition programs, life skills classes for healthy relationships, parenting, and financial literacy. Also assists with community referral and navigation of resources.

Rooted in Grace Foundation | Rooted in Grace Foundation

Programs that teach skills that enable parents to deal constructively and consistently with a broad spectrum of child rearing problems which may include sibling rivalry; school behavior and performance; poor self-esteem; shyness; drug use; sexual promiscuity; and the whole range of negative, acting-out behaviors including whining, temper tantrums, disobedience, insolence and destructiveness. Some parenting skills development programs utilize a step-by-step approach for managing specific problems and may incorporate application at home of techniques that were discussed and practiced in the classroom setting. Other programs may offer participatory family workshops which provide opportunities for parents and children to learn and practice methods for dealing with one another under the guidance of a trained facilitator. Most training programs teach the parent a particular way of talking and relating to their children that reinforces positive behaviors and communication and decreases negative behaviors while supporting the development of a relationship that is built on fairness, mutual caring and respect.

Parenting Skills Classes

Programs that prepare expectant mothers for childbirth and provide health care services for mothers and infants during pregnancy and following birth.

Mother and Infant Care

Apartments or other living spaces that are designed to be shared by two or more unrelated individuals each of whom pays a portion of the cost.  Residents generally have their own private space such as a bedroom and share common areas.

Shared Housing Facilities

Programs that provide educational and supportive services that help new parents or those expecting a child, to prepare them on an emotional and practical level for the impact the newborn will have on their lives and relationships. The programs are open to all parents. Initial focus areas include healthy eating for the mother, danger signs in pregnancy, sibling preparation and being ready for labor and delivery, followed by practical information on basic infant care, newborn behaviors, baby supplies, bathing techniques, diapering, breastfeeding and other feeding options, as well as infant and childhood illnesses. Later topics may include walking, talking, toilet training and other aspects of child development, all to help ensure that infants and toddlers are nurtured, live in a safe environment and receive proper health care.

General Expectant/New Parent Assistance

Programs that provide educational workshops, printed materials, Internet website information or other types of resources for individuals, families, business owners and others that deal with the essentials of money management, asset building and financial independence. A wide variety of money management issues may be addressed including banking services, consumer credit lending, debt consolidation/repayment, bankruptcy, small business development, retirement planning, investment management, savings, risk management, tax and estate law and other similar topics.

Financial Literacy Training

Programs that offer training which focuses on the knowledge and skills an individual may need to live independently or make a successful transition to independent living. Participants may include runaway youth who are living on their own, youth who because of age can no longer be maintained in foster care, new widows, victims of domestic abuse, people who have previously been homeless, and others who have lived in an environment in which decision making and responsibilities of daily living have been handled by another as well as people currently living independently who want to be more effective. Training may address job search and retention, money management, insurance, taxes, rental agreements, vehicle purchase, nutrition, home management, health care, legal emancipation for teens and other similar topics.

Life Skills Education

Programs that offer individual and/or group sessions which assist participants to understand how their lifestyle impacts their physical and mental health and to develop personal practices that enhance their total well-being. Wellness programs are holistic and combine a variety of components which may include a general physical examination that is tailored to the individual's needs; an evaluation of the person's pattern of exercise, eating habits, sources of stress and other lifestyle elements that are potential risk factors; and the development and implementation of an individualized plan for prevention management and early intervention to optimize health and performance which may include physical fitness sessions, nutrition counseling, stress reduction techniques, biofeedback, practice in assuming responsibility for one's choices, and other specific measures for avoiding physical and mental health conditions.

Wellness Programs

Provides shelter for parenting teenage mothers. The focus is on helping the participants understand the responsibilities of parenting in an environment that is safe for both the young mother and child.

The Hannah House | The Hannah House

The Elizabeth House | The Elizabeth House

The Magdalene House | The Magdalene House

Mother Goose Adoptions of Arizona, Inc | Mother Goose Adoptions of Arizona, Inc

Rooted in Grace Foundation | Rooted in Grace Foundation

La Paloma Amparo de los Angeles Program | La Paloma Amparo de los Angeles Program

The Michael House | The Michael House