MAGDALENE SERENITY HOUSE INC

1. Provide two-years of safe housing, at no cost to women who have experienced trauma, addiction, and incarceration.

2. Provide mental and physical health care, vision care, and restorative care for all of our residents to achieve optimal health and wellness.

3. Help residents reenter the workforce through job readiness training and individual support.

4. Help residents reunify with their family, especially their children.

5. Help our residents obtain financial stability in order to reenter the community and live an independent life.

5. Help our residents successfully reenter the community and live a safe, sober, and crime-free life.

Strategy One: Provide two-years of free, safe housing for each of our residents.

Strategy Two: Provide access to mental, physical, vision, and dental care for each of our residents at no cost to them.

Strategy Three: For each resident to work with an on-site Licensed Social Worker and Resident Support Specialist to receive ongoing support and guidance in their healing and recovery process.

Strategy Four: To provide an on-site, holistic therapeutic program to help each resident develop the necessary knowledge and skills to move forward in their healing and recovery.

Strategy Five: To create a community of support and healing at MSH for each of our residents to feel wrapped in support as they prepare to reenter the community.

We are staffed by three licensed social workers (one LCSW, one LMSW, and one LSW) and a Resident Support Specialist who are trained to work with women who have experienced trauma, addiction, and incarceration. All of our Licensed Social Workers have significant experience working with our target population and our Resident Support Specialist is a former graduate of our program and is training to be a Peer Recovery Support Specialist. We have a talented program team and an active Board of Directors that help us continue to grow and provide high-quality, holistic care for women who have experienced trauma, addiction, and incarceration.

Since we opened on September 29, 2017 we have provided 2,001 group sessions and 607 case management sessions. Residents have attended 3,021 AA/NA meetings and received 592 physical and mental health services.

We celebrated our first graduate of the program in May of 2019. She now works full-time for MSH as a Resident Support Specialist supporting residents in their recovery. We prepared our second graduate for program completion in February of 2020. She now works at the Double Tree Hotel in Bentonville, AR and will obtain custody of her two youngest children this fall. In 2019, we acknowledged that successful completion of the program is not marked by the full two years of programming and a formal graduation. Thus, in addition to our graduates we have helped three women transition into independence. In 2019 MSH underwent a full re-branding in order to focus on the courageous efforts of healing and recovering from complex trauma, addiction and incarceration. Lastly, in an effort to meet an unmet need in the community, MSH narrowed its focus to those who are more recently post-incarcerated in a response to the lack of resources for women on parole in Northwest Arkansas.

We continue to have a full house of residents and they are progressing in the program. We receive referrals daily from women looking for a safe place to heal and recover. We want to continue to work toward financial sustainability, host our first graduation celebration, and eventually expand our program to meet the growing need of women in our community.