Emerging Practice

Maggie’s Place: New Beginnings for Homeless Pregnant Women

State/Jurisdiction: Arizona
Setting: Community
Population: Adolescents & Young Adults Children Families & Caregivers Infant Women & Maternal
Topic Area: Access to Quality Healthcare Safe and Connected Communities Family & Youth Engagement Mental Health & Substance Use Birth Outcomes Workforce Development
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Maggie’s Place provides safe housing and a nurturing community for homeless pregnant women, empowering them to thrive throughout their lifetime. Maggie’s Place serves homeless, pregnant, and parenting women seeking shelter, counseling, and recovery support in Maricopa County. Pregnant women struggling with homelessness, substance use, and addiction are largely disconnected to necessary resources and lack support to become self-sufficient.

Upon arrival at Maggie’s Place, women are usually single, abandoned, without family ties, and have been homeless and living on the street for an average of 4.75 years. Most women enter our program at 22 weeks of pregnancy and, up until that point, have not received any prenatal care. At intake, our program staff determine an individualized care plan for ongoing support to help participants reach their goals. Once a woman enters our door, all services are available throughout the pregnancy and birth of her baby until her child is 12 months old. Upon exiting a Maggie’s Place home, families are encouraged to continue utilizing all services offered at the Maggie’s Place Family Success Center.

Maggie's Place strives to meet the immediate physical and emotional needs of our moms and offers a variety of services to help them achieve their goal of sober living. In addition to addressing basic needs like housing, we utilize a Wellness Wheel that focuses on complete wellness (social, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, physical, environmental, financial, and occupational) and goals of each participant. Our goal is to remove any challenge that could prevent moms from achieving their goals.

Participants receive individual counseling from our Licensed Independent Substance Abuse Counselor (LISAC) and participate in many support groups (DCS, AA, Grief Processing, SMART Recovery, SUD, Perinatal and Postpartum, and Maternal Mental Health) that focus on working through grief and loss stemming from past experiences and provide postpartum support and perinatal education. Moms also receive on-site case management services from our Stability Specialists and Peer Support moms that allow them to continue taking active steps towards achieving their personal goals.

The Perinatal Substance Use Disorder Implementation & Policy Hub project is supported by the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE) and Perigee Fund. The content presented is the responsibility of the featured practices and policies and does not necessarily reflect the views of FORE, Perigee Fund, or AMCHP.

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CONTACT INFORMATION
Maggie's Place
Laura Magruder
lmagruder@maggiesplace.org

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