Anna house maternity home provides housing to four women and their children at one time. Its purpose is to offer pregnant and parenting women a safe place to catch their breath and become stable and indepedent. Average stay is 4.8 months. The program includes spiritual formation, job training, life skills learning, and parenting education. All food and transportation is provided, as well as medical, dental, and vision assistance. Many volunteers from the local community invest in the women by teaching specific skills through classes offered monthly by spending one on one time as a mentor, and by helping residents obtain their own personal goals. Our desired end-result is to equip residents to be fully independent upon graduation from our program, which is approximately 8 months. When she leaves anna house, she will have obtained full-time employment, improved her parenting skills, saved the money needed to have her own residence, and have her own reliable transportation.

Family resource center offers weekly personal coaching for women and men, free pregnancy tests, and material assistance. Women who come for a free pregnancy test are given options-coaching following the test result. If the test is negative, she learns about abstinence. Women who come in each week for coaching choose from a long list of curriculum topics such as parenting, finances, interviewing for a job, prenatal development, and navigating personal relationships. Family resource center offers free baby supplies diapers, wipes, formula, baby food, car seats, pack-n-plays, blankets, etc.

New life thrift shop is a retail outlet selling donated goods. All items are donated and all revenue supports abides mission to provide help and hope to pregnant andparenting women. A large part of new life thrifts purpose is to provide job training for clients who reside at anna house maternity home. Often, these residents arrivewithout employment and many are not able to get a job in our area due to their lack of experience, or that they have a criminal record, or are unable to find a job with hours that are manageable for a single mother. We teach retail skills, general job skills, and are able to provide a reference for her when a more pernanent position in the community becomes available. New life thrift also offers free clothing and other items asbenevolence to the local homeless population and also to foster families in the community.