Maggie's Place

Shelter: Maggie's Place provides safe housing for pregnant and parenting women who are experiencing trauma including violence, neglect, substance abuse, poverty, and homelessness. Maggie's Place operates four maternity homes in maricopa county that provide a stable environment, support resources and a positive, healthy community for pregnant women experiencing homelessness. Maggie's Place also operates two transitional apartment complexes (15 units total) that provide housing to mothers who have transitioned from our maternity homes and are continuing to establish stability and independence. Upon entry to a Maggie's Place home, each mom is paired with a stability specialist (case management) and a live-in americorps member who partner on supporting mom throughout her journey at Maggie's Place. For some moms goals include establishing educational or job skills training opportunities for employment stability, for others it may be working to reunify with older children. Maggie's Place meets moms where they are at and through exposure to available resource networks, our participants are able to improve their ability to build, maintain and constantly enhance their path to independence and self-sufficiency.in 2022, Maggie's Place provided 39,106 safe nights of housing for 89 pregnant and parenting moms and provided the opportunity to receive ongoing services to more than 1,100 alumni moms. Our approach of prevention and intervention enhances our participant's ability to protect and nurture their children. We provide endless support to our clients by building, maintaining, and constantly improving our network of family support services and this helps families become resilient, stay together, and change their lives forever.

Family support services: Maggie's Place clients come from a diverse range of traumatic circumstances. Because we meet each participant's unique needs, we focus on building trust and providing trauma sensitive services including food, safe shelter, clothing, case management, referrals to community resources, enrollment services, transportation, educational scholarships, assistance with permanent housing and utilities. We help our clients identify their goals in job readiness; mental, behavioral, and physical health; and early learning, and then tailor our services to support them and help them be successful in their individual journey. Our services are directly based on the five protective factors identified in the center for the study of social policy's strengthening families protective framework: parental resilience, social connections, concrete support in times of need, knowledge of parenting and child development, and social and emotional competence of children. Studies show that when these factors are utilized family success increases and the likelihood of child abuse and neglect decreases.

Education and family relationships: Maggie's Place offers life changing educational programs and services to pregnant and parenting women. We provide a safe community to live and the education to learn how to take care of baby and become self-sufficient. Maggie's Place moms are guided through classes, seminars, and one-on-one coaching sessions in evidence-based parenting, nutrition, wellness, legal resources, job readiness, financial literacy, car seat safety, infant and child safety, and crib safety. After moms transition out of Maggie's Place housing they continue to be provided with rich resources, activities and programs that support them on their journey to improve their family's health and relationships. In 2022, Maggie's Place provided educational activities and resources to 256 people including 233 parent support groups, 399 substance abuse counseling sessions, 344 art sessions, 415 seeking safety sessions, 505 peer support meetings, 1,413 check-in support texts, and 2,136 counseling sessions. In addition, in 2022, we helped 1,365 moms and children build trust, healing, and social support and connections through our numerous celebratory events surrounding valentine's day, easter, mother's day, back to school, halloween, thanksgiving, and christmas.