Moving Single Moms from Hopeless to a Home

Shining Light Homes, a 501(c)3 public charity, meets the immediate needs of isolated 18-25 year old women who are pregnant or mothers with toddler age children that are experiencing difficult times. Many of them find themselves homeless either during their pregnancy or just afterward. These young women have little support from their family or the father of the baby and struggle to acquire basic needs.

What We Do

The goal of Shining Light Homes is to be an Advocate for struggling single mothers. We connect them to available resources and provide education, counseling, goal setting, and other life skills that will help these young mother become self-sufficient and productive citizens in their community. it is our desire to move these you women from homelessness to a home of their own.

You can help, by becoming a monthly sponsor.

Our Impact

Over the past 6 years, we have distributed the following to single mothers and their babies in need:

• 10,000+ diapers
• 2,500+ bags of food
• baby furniture
• basic household items
• clothing for both mother and child
• bus passes
• free hotel room stays to keep our moms and babies safe and off the street
• Thanksgiving boxes
• annual Christmas party dinner with gifts for children

We have also conducted necessary life skills, budgeting, credit repair, and checkbook management workshops.

Our Short-term Goal: A Life-Line Home

Our dream is to acquire a Life-Line transitional Home. A Life-Line Home is a place where up to 6 expectant mothers (or mothers with no more than 2 toddler age children) can call "home" for a 2 year period of time. During this time, Shining Light Homes will work with each mother to provide education and training, career and general counseling, goal setting and budgeting for their future. It is our hope and plan that at the end of their stay they will have "broken the cycle" of being stuck and leave with all basic needs met. They will have the security of a safe place to live and raise a child, an upwardly mobile career, access to reliable transportation, and dependable and safe childcare.

Come Join Us!

If not you, Who? If not now, When? The need is real, the urgency is now.

When you support Shining Light Homes, 501(c)3; your monthly tax-deductible contributions permanently change people’s lives for the better. You CAN Help! Your contributions sustain our programs; we thank you for it, and so do the mothers and children who receive the attention they’ve needed.