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Our mission is to empower pregnant and parenting women in need to reclaim their lives and build successful family legacies.
Since our beginning in 1993, we’ve been committed to meeting needs in our community among the most vulnerable. California is the epicenter of homelessness in our country, and many of the families affected by this are headed by single women. For two-plus decades, Elizabeth House has been the only Residential Program in the entire San Gabriel Valley that embraces pregnant mothers and their children (up to age five). We see our role as essential to standing in the gap for these families so that they can create a new, promising future. While we started out as a residential program, we have grown to include life-long Alumni Services and, in 2020, launched a Community-Based Program through our Center for Mother & Child Wellbeing. Alumni Services allows us to see our former residents through for the long haul, and our Community-Based Program enables us to provide services to pregnant and parenting women who do not need shelter but do need support.
We take a trauma-informed approach that addresses physical, emotional, spiritual, and economic needs in both women and their children. Often, we become family to these women who long for a safe and supportive place to belong. Without exception, the women and children who seek our services do so because of difficult life experiences inclusive of poverty, domestic violence, generational family trauma, foster care, substance dependence, and more. We understand the devastating impact of trauma and we believe in the power of Christ to heal and transform all lives. For this reason, we provide holistic support, taking the time necessary to get to root causes in order to build afresh.
We are in it as long as it takes with the women and children in our programs and create a personalized experience and plan for each one. And we’re connected and involved not only when they need help, but for the rest of their lives. Elizabeth House is committed to life-long service to all our women and children. Year after year, we are proud of how much they accomplish in reclaiming their lives and building successful futures.