Maggie's Place

Safe and secure shelter: Maggie's Place provides safe housing to pregnant, homeless women who experience trauma, including violence, neglect, substance abuse and poverty. Throughout maricopa county, Maggie's Place operates five maternity homes, providing a stable environment, supportive resources, access to prenatal and medical care and a healthy community of peers for expectant mothers. Maggie's Place also operates a small, 4-unit apartment complex, providing mothers and their children additional accommodations and support to enhance stability and independence while working with dcs on reunification.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.we had 57 mothers, 42 babies, and 3 children that we housed during 2023. 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 family success center also offers support for our families who have experienced a diverse range of traumatic circumstances. To meet each participant's unique needs, programs include addiction counseling, grief and trauma counseling, postpartum support, peer support and mentorships. Regular meetings, counseling sessions and support groups provide mothers the tools and resources empowering them to build a meaningful life for themselves and their children. A variety of child enrichment opportunities are available to 0-12 year olds who accompany their mothers to the fsc for classes. The donation closet is stocked with household supplies, hygiene products and food items including infant formula, diapers, wipes and are distributed at no cost.177 families participated in family coaching; 31 mothers activley participated in the peer support program; 221 support group sessions offered during the year with 1,191 people attended those sessions. 14 out of 15 dcs cases resulted in reunification or on the way to reunification.

Education and family relationships: Maggie's Place provides ongoing, educational activities, programs and supportive services at the organization's family success center, available to both mothers who have completed our program (alumni) and mothers currently living in any of our residential facilities. A variety of educational classes and workshops aimed to develop self-sufficiency and independence are available to new and expectant mothers including nutrition, infant care, breastfeeding, birthing, car seat safety and crib safety. Evidenced-based parenting classes, life skills and financial literacy classes are also offered. Tutoring is available for mothers looking to pursue their education, obtain certifications or a ged. Workforce development program including career assessment and counseling is available to help participants navigate the workforce. 42 total classes were offered during the year for a variety of topics: parenting, workforce development, financial literacy, nutrition classes. 450 sessions were provded with a total with 1,818 moms attending. 523 seeking safety sessions were given. 53 moms participated in 169 one on one workfoce development sessions.