FROM THE CHAIR

During 2022, Maggie’s Place was able to operate in a more “normal” manner as the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic lessened. We were able to provide more in-person programs and services in our homes and at our Family Success Center. However, there were certainly other increasing challenges that our moms and their babies needed to deal with throughout the year.

In response to the weakening economy and increasing inflation, we provided our moms with help with public transportation passes, food bags, and even with initial housing costs as they move on from our homes and become more self-sufficient. And in the face of the continued spread of harmful and deadly drugs in the areas we serve, we increased our substance abuse counseling and sober living programs for our moms (who are often in the early stages of sobriety) – all while continuing to provide much needed shelter, services, life-skills training, and love to our moms and their babies. Once again in 2022, our moms and our staff showed great flexibility and resiliency in caring for themselves, their infants, and each other. And throughout the year, all of us involved with Maggie’s Place focused on living out one of our core values that “Love

Lives Here.”

During this past year, we were able to build on the increasing recognition by more entities and individuals of the value of the services and support that Maggie’s Place provides to pregnant women and their babies, who are clearly a vulnerable group, yet who also continue to show their own great strength and perseverance as they seek to create more self-sufficient lives for themselves and their children. We continue to be blessed by support from an increasingly broad array of public entities, private foundations, corporations, and private individuals as we seek to increase our physical, programmatic, and organizational capacity to further our mission, in the face of increasing demand, of helping homeless pregnant women and their babies.

So, it is with a great amount of humility and gratitude, that I, on behalf of the Board of Directors, say thank you to all who support Maggie’s Place and our work.

Gerry Stenson Board Chair