RUTH HARBOR
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Mission Statement
Through grace, Ruth Harbor provides a Christ-centered home, programs, and comprehensive services resulting in positive life change for young women who have experienced unplanned pregnancies, and their babies.
About This Cause
Goal – to prepare the young women we are housing for independent living whether they choose to parent or place for adoption. Under the guidance and direction of a staff counselor and live-in house parents, women live together as a family, learning to care for both their home and one another. While at Ruth Harbor women receive the following at no charge: Counseling, Quality Healthcare, Education, Spiritual Guidance, Life-Skill Training, Parenting Training and/or Adoption Assistance. Six residents maximum at any one time, modeling a family; emphasis on “home” versus “institution.” Emphasis on grace and independent living versus circumstances that brought them here. Use of medical director, mentors, host homes, and partner agencies. Info. provided on parenting, adoption, and life-skill training by subject matter experts. Financial contribution will help provide the following for a Ruth Harbor resident: • Housing and food; • Loving support and supervision of house parents (24 hours/7days a week); • Spiritual guidance (conversations in both formal and informal settings); • Professional counseling (addressing pregnancy AND many issues beyond); • Individually tailored care plan (reviewed and revised as needed); • Guidance through a maze of health care, insurance, and community support programs; • Transportation (School, work, church, doctor appointments, job interviews); • Life-skill training (menu and meal planning, laundry, housekeeping, etc.); • Specialized training (financial, parenting classes, the adoption process); • Individually designed after-care program (mentoring, shepherding homes); and • Referral and connection with other support programs and agencies that will increase their likelihood of success. Young women who engage in the Ruth Harbor program are: • Changing their negative decision-making cycles; • Rebuilding relationships with family and friends; • Receiving quality healthcare for themselves and their baby; • Developing proper expectations regarding parenting and the courageous decision to place their child in a loving home through adoption; • Making prayerful, educated choices about parenting or placing their baby; • Getting on their feet financially; • Establishing a healthier work ethic; • Reestablishing their self-esteem and value in God’s eyes as well as their own; • Learning everyday skills (greeting others, respect, taking responsibility); and • Continuing their relationship with us even after they become “alumni.” They are requesting informal advice on everything from purchasing a car to the scary thought of dating again. They are blessing us with their comments and appreciation for life-change that has been identified with their stay here – life change that often includes a new relationship with God.