A Phoenix nonprofit is opening a new home for women who are re-entering society after being in prison. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s called MOM\u2019s House, and it will officially open next month following a $100,000 renovation. <\/p>\n
Daren Strunk is chief operating officer with St. Joseph the Worker, which owns and operates MOM\u2019s House.<\/p>\n
“We’re going to be able to service about 15% more women through the house in any given year,” said Strunk.<\/p>\n
The home is part of the organization\u2019s Workforce Villages Re-entry Program, and helps women leaving Perryville Prison transition back into life and the workplace.<\/p>\n
This transitional program has already helped create several success stories, Strunk said.<\/p>\n
“Eighteen of 22 women have come through the program, so far, have successfully saved the money, gotten their own lease. So they all exit into market-rate housing, so they are no longer on government assistance or food stamps, [and] they\u2019re all working a full-time job with benefits,” said Strunk.<\/p>\n
The re-entry program started in 2024 using homes owned by another local nonprofit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Phoenix nonprofit is opening a new home for women who are re-entering society after being in prison.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-149662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115036685934369206","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}