Carried To Full Term is a nonprofit providing long-term housing to pregnant women in crisis.
Carried To Full Term
Guiding Principles and Core Values
Our Mission…
The mission of Carried To Full Term is to provide comprehensive long-term residential support for women who are pregnant and homeless. We invest in and empower vulnerable women and her family for lives of dignity, hope, independence and self-sufficiency.
Our Vision…
We envision a community where families have safe, secure, and stable housing with sufficient resources and space to plan for their futures, and pursue happiness.
Our Philosophy…
The philosophy of Carried To Full Term is to respect life from the moment of conception and beyond. To nurture and protect the life of both the mother and the child.
Our Goal…
Carried To Full Term assists women to live independently and self-sufficiently. We envision a life of hope for the future. We believe in new beginnings. We invest in, inspire and affirm residents to actively participate in creating and pursuit of their goals.
Our Values…
Carried To Full Term respects individuals at all stages of life and fosters loving, and family-centered values. We believe all life has value. We strive to embody our values in everything we do and in all of our relationships with clients, team members, partners, and the broader community.
Images of a pregnant woman walking the streets wondering where she’ll spend the night are not something anyone can see without wanting to step in the help. Helping is almost impossible unless her story is told. Mothers in this state of crisis usually aren’t forthcoming with their stories or pleas for help. The urgency of a home is more pressing than telling someone who may or may not help. This is where we come in.
Most of us never really have had to deal with homelessness or the thought of not having a home. There is not one specific situation that leads women to the homeless, but rather a series of events. There is a cycle that needs to be broken in some instances to bring an end to homelessness. Some of the circumstances stem from aging out of foster care, job loss, illness, relocation, divorce, abandonment or a cycle of poverty, a cycle repeats.repeats.
A 2017 HUD study reported a staggering 554,000 people across the country are homeless. Once homelessness is experienced, a family’s life is completely altered. A Purdue study found “when a family becomes homeless the entire family’s life, normalcy, sense of securing and whatever semblance of functionality that once existed is now completely disrupted and off-balance. Any routine or appearance of a normalcy changes. The conditions of “normal” life, from mundane activities of daily living (regular showers or doing laundry) to the important job of getting a child to school, are brought to a sudden halt. Household foundations, however weak they may have been in the past, may become nonexistent once homelessness occurs.”
Whatever the circumstances surrounding a person’s or family’s homelessness, they are likely to worsen once homelessness becomes a reality. Even if job loss is the explanation for an individual’s homelessness, such an unexpected crisis can quickly worsen and can lead to depression, unemployment, and other conditions that will make it more difficult for a family to regain economic stability and a home.
A woman who is pregnant and homeless doesn’t care about attending classes to get a pack and play or diapers. She cares about getting a roof over her head before night falls. Whether it’s getting into a shelter, sleeping in a car, a quiet bathroom or a tent in the woods. These are her concerns.
We’d like to introduce you to some of the mothers in our residential program. They are not out of reach, many of them are in your community neighborhoods. They need your help to break cycles to give their children a new start, a hope, and a brighter future. We need 250 friends to give $20.00 a month, to cover the cost of our monthly residential expenses.
