When they enter our program, many of these women cannot recall a single happy memory from their own childhoods. They have low self esteem and have come to accept themselves as failures.

Many of the children who come to live at House of Healing have spent most of their young lives competing for attention with their mother's addiction, mental illness, or memories of truama. All too often their physical and emotional needs are unmet and ingnored-until they come to live at House of Healing. Many have never known a home where they feel safe, where people treat others with respect, where the family sits around the table to share a meal.

The children served by our agency are at-risk simply by virtue of their mothers' incarceration: studies show that children whose mothers are incarcerated are six times as likely to end up in prison themselves.