Living Grace Homes provides a safe, caring environment and long-term support for pregnant and parenting young women. Our programs help each resident pursue education, healing, and a stronger future — for herself and her child.
In a city where too many pregnant women have nowhere to turn, the Safe & Sound Campus will add 38 beds and serve 90 more families each year. More than shelter, it’s a place of healing, learning, and opportunity—offering housing, career training, therapy, and life skills to help moms build healthy, independent futures.
With the new Safe and Sound Campus, we’re preparing to TRIPLE the number of families served—including women over age 24—so that no mother has to face homelessness alone.
At Living Grace Homes, we focus on five key areas to move young women from dependency to empowerment:
We provide young families with practical tools to build strong relationships and confidently manage their children’s needs. Topics include:
For this course, a doula comes on-site to work with the LGH’s expecting moms to focus on ways to move that are safe and provide comfort for expecting women. Expecting moms learn from the doula a curriculum that fills in education gaps and addresses pregnancy nutrition, also complementing the nutrition education recommendations of EFNEP from UNR Cooperative Extension.
The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) is the nation’s first nutrition education program for low-income populations. It remains at the forefront of nutrition education efforts to reduce nutrition insecurity of low-income families and youth today.
The EFNEP curriculum does not explicitly focus on pregnancy and postpartum nutrition, thus, LGH’s doula covers this critical material. This course also provides hands-on opportunities to prepare nutritious meals with LGH’s expectant moms.
This course offers a general overview of financial basics that covers everything from investing, buying a car or home, how to create a budget, and creating an emergency fund. This course provides residents with lessons on how to make smart decisions with their money. Each class generally begins with watching a chapter video of Dave Ramsey followed by a discussion.
The fundamentals of the course have value for the demographic of residents at LGH, but a more focused curriculum may be better suited for residents, including information on social service benefits and their budget with and without it, and has touch points on the types of financial situations they encounter. Since the majority are at or below 25% of the federal poverty line with little to no income, it may be beneficial to modify the course to include subjects such as poverty mindset, the psychology of money, defining needs and wants, delayed gratification, and living within your means.
Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) is the nation’s first nutrition education program for low-income populations and remains at the forefront of nutrition education efforts to reduce nutrition insecurity of low-income families and youth today.
Length: 2x per week for 4 weeks, totaling 8 lessons. Each class is 1.5 hours. The course has recently been expanded to 9 lessons and LGH will have its first 9 lesson course in November.
This course is taught in person at LGH by an instructor from UNR Cooperative Extension. The lesson plans combine hands-on learning, applied science, and data to ensure program effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability. The instructor demonstrates how to prepare different ingredients, portion control, the dish’s nutritional value, and its ingredients. Program participants learn how to read food labels, save money on groceries, plan meals, safely handle food, make healthy food choices, and be more active. After the 9-week course, residents who have attended at least 7 of the 9 classes leave with a certificate of completion and a bag of kitchen tools, including a cutting board, meat thermometer, measuring cups and spoons, dish scrubber, recipe book and shopping list notepad.
Living Grace Homes is a nonprofit organization providing a safe, supportive home and comprehensive services for pregnant and parenting young mothers who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Our programs help moms build stability, confidence, and a healthy future for themselves and their babies.
There are many ways to get involved:
Every act of support helps change the trajectory of a family’s future.
