Maggie's Place

Shelter: maggie's place offers safe and stable housing solutions and provides a positive, healthy community for participants who have experienced violence, neglect, trauma, substance misuse/abuse, and chronic homelessness. Maggie's place targets the most vulnerable population. Women experiencing poverty and their fragile infants and children. Maggie's place operates four shelters in Arizona and one shelter in cleveland, Ohio for homeless, pregnant women. Additionally, Arizona offers an apartment complex (4 units) for mothers working on reunification and an apartment complex (11 units) for families transitioning to independent living. Maggie's place enhances clients ability to protect and nurture children by building, maintaining and constantly improving a network of family support services. Maggie's place has found powerful ways to help families become resilient, stay together and change their lives. Our approach of prevention and interventions has given us the opportunity to have a greater impact on more families.

Family support services: services are trauma sensitive and are based on meeting clients where they are at, providing services on what families were asking for and building trust. Clients are primarily engaged in four key goal areas: job readiness, mental and behavioral health, physical health and early learning. All services are linked to the five protective factors identified in the center for the study of social policys strengthening families (tm) protective framework. Studies show that when these protective factors are present family functioning and resiliency, social connections, concrete support in times of need, knowledge or parenting and child development, and nurturing and attachment the likelihood of child abuse and neglect decreases. Services include safe and secure shelter, case management, connections to community resources, enrollment services, immediate aide with food, clothing and transportation, scholarships for educational needs, assistance for housing and utility needs.

Education and family relationships: maggie's place provides life changing programs and services for pregnant and parenting women and their children by offering a warm and welcoming community, a safe place to live and learn, and on-going services to help them become self-sufficient. Educational classes in evidenced based parenting, seminars (legal, job readiness, financial literacy, nutrition, wellness, etc. ), and one-on-one consultations, car seat safety (car seats provided), infant and child safety, and crib safety (pack and plays provided). Programs and activities that improve family relationships and health, such as healthy relationship and peer lead addiction support groups, pyscho educational classes to address trauma/attachment, early childhood learning, parent/child classes and activities that build trust and healing, social connections programs and counseling.