MERCY HOUSE MINISTRIES INC
P O Box 236, Colleyville, TX 760340236 www.mercyhouse.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: To provide single, pregnant women with a safe, nurturing home, pregnancy care, life skills training and Christian discipleship in order to establish a solid foundation for two lives.

Mercy House provides residential housing, educational development, professional counseling, spiritual mentoring and prenatal and postpartum services for single, pregnant women.

Program Service Accomplishments and Description:Mercy House is a residential maternity home serving single adult women who are pregnant, homeless, or in duress. The home has a capacity for eight women and their babies. House Directors and staff care for the residents. Each woman is invited to stay for up to six months after birth. The average stay at Mercy House can be 6 to 9 months under most circumstances. Our goal for each of our residents is graduation from our program with a healthy baby, personal healing and restoration, feeling equipped to parent, or empowered and supported to place their baby for adoption. During their stay with us, we prioritize improving life skills, parenting education, and acquisition of a higher level of education than previously achieved. This ranges from working toward a general equivalency diploma, acquiring education for a trade, or online attendance of college classes. We focus heavily on emotional and spiritual restoration and resolution. These goals are achieved through a team of our staff, and volunteers who are mentors and professional counselors. Twelve women were served this year. These services included midwifery and medical obstetrics care, childbirth education, dental care and chiropractic care. Professional counseling included Celebrate Recovery and Overcomers addiction counseling, nutritional training, emotional and spiritual healing and recovery and our online Parent Education course taught by a licensed neonatal registered nurse, called Brightcourse. We assisted each resident in obtaining WIC, Medicaid, and educational advancement. In some cases, Mercy House funded their educational requirements or found scholarships through interested donors. This year, Mercy House transitioned into our new program evaluation process which goes through four phases: Endure, Hope, Change and Life. Each phase has unique issues, methods, curriculums and processes that assist each resident in her particular stage of life and pregnancy. The Endure Phase is the first phase of the Mercy House program. The curriculum in this phase is the Purple Book (a discipleship curriculum), PE class (Parenting Education), Relationship Goals (training on how to build healthy relationships), Overcomers and Celebrate Recovery ( an addiction recovery program). The Hope Phase is the second phase of the Mercy House program. The curriculum in this phase consists of Boundaries, Shepherding A Child's Heart, Nourish, and Life Skills. The Change Phase is the third phase of the Mercy House program. The curriculum in this phase is Poverty, Riches and Wealth, Financial Peace, Life Skills II, and educational training for skilled labor and job readiness. The Life Phase is the fourth phase of the Mercy House program. At this time, residents have completed the majority of the program and are looking forward to graduation, receiving their car for those in good standing and transition out of Mercy House. Our curriculum is designed to prepare our residents with skills such as childbirth education, breastfeeding instruction, infant care, parenting instruction, car seat safety training, CPR and First Aid, Financial Peace (a finance & budgeting management curriculum. They are educated on shaken baby syndrome through demonstrations with a baby mannequin. In addition to our own curriculum, we partner with other organizations and churches who provide periodic specialized trainings that are applicable to our residents needs, such as Bible studies, Embrace Grace and other small groups. Each resident is assisted with exit plans from our program when the time is right. Most move out to transitional housing programs, and some return to their homes to establish their own households. We endeavor to stay in communication with each resident that desires our ongoing support.

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