Mothers Beneath My Wings is a start-up and a licensed, nonprofit organization.
Mothers Beneath My Wings is a start-up and a licensed, nonprofit organization. We are looking for donations and volunteers to help open new doors to provide a safe and stable home for homeless people. We provide education and shelter to save homeless children in the Chicago area.
Our organization is licensed within a childcare facility, under the guidelines of the Family in Childcare Service, with the Illinois Department of Human Services.
We Help
Homeless youth
Youth aged out of foster care
Pregnant and parenting youth
Single mothers and their children
About Us An Introduction
Mothers’ Beneath My Wings, Youth Transitional Housing Program of Illinois is a startup non- profit organization amid to provide transitional housing and life skill for homeless minor and single parents and his or her minor children.
PROGRAMS
Our organization homeless youth program seeks to provide several types of empowering services for unaccompanied youth and their minor children. They include:
Mothers Beneath My Wings Arkansas Location
Our Second Chance Solution Act (SCSA) Transitional Living Program (TLP) will be location in Arkansas Cross County, dedicated to providing services and supporting life skills and resource for youth aging out of foster care ages 16- 21; our primary goal is to provide supervision living skills for current and at risk homeless young men and women who are aging out of foster care with opportunities and a second chance to develop positive independent skills as they build successful productive lives, as parents and transition to independent adults.
Research
A staggering, research show over the past three decades that many young people age out of foster care are not prepared for transition to adulthood. The researchers show compared as a group, they fared badly than their peers across a variety of domains, including stable housing, higher education and employment.
Journey of Mothers Beneath My Wings from the Owner
The organization was founded by Helen J. Slaughter, who has both the practical experience and the education needed to lead the organization.
Hear It In Her Own Words
As a chief executive officer, I am working on assembling a strong board of trustees that can add great value to our organization and support in helping achieve our mission. I am a very outgoing and hard- working person who has consistently demonstrated readiness to consider taking reasonable risks by investing my time and energy in fundraising events and charity projects.
I have grown a strong passion for helping homeless youth and young mothers ages 16 to 24 and their children, by providing them with supportive housing and education services.
I am very aware of the life challenges and struggles of being a homeless teenager. It is totally overwhelming as a homeless adolescent mother carrying for her two children at the young age of 13 while being homeless.
My own dreams were shattered in becoming a nurse and helping others. After dropping out of school the challenges and struggles only added to the frustration and constant demands of being a young homeless mother of two. I believe with all my heart that God has used the struggles and pain of my past to propel the birth of Mothers’ Beneath My Wings a Youth Transitional Living Program for at-risk homeless youth and unwed Mothers and their children, by enriching their lives with supporting life skills that will enable them to live successful Independent life.
Youth Transitional Housing Program
We are a newly launched social service and educational agency serving the greater Arkansas and Illinois area. The organization offers Youth Transitional Housing Program for the growing number of homeless and runaway youth who cannot return home. We provide housing and the necessary skills to support and assist homeless youth as they transition into living independently.
The purpose is to provide facilities which allow them to become self-sufficient, be on their own and live as successful adults and parents rather than being dependent on public assistance.
Research shows that there are over 26,000 unaccompanied youth up to the age of 21 in the state of Illinois, who have no place they can call home. Research also shows that there are over 2.5 million unaccompanied homelessness youth in America who have no place to call home.
We provide homeless youth and single mothers the opportunity to lead a safe and independent life.
“For I know the plans I have for you; declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
-Jeremiah 29:11
Our Mission is to provide a safe, stable, respectfully, educational learning environments, related services that enhances the lives of children and youth experiencing homelessness, their families, and the communities in which they live.
We aim to help end the cycle of youth homelessness and poverty by providing stable, safe youth transitional housing and higher educational programs for homeless youth, unwed mothers and their children serving Cook, and DuPage Counties.
At Mothers’ Beneath My Wings, our goal is to provide a program with resources designed to help youth and young children who’s facing barriers of homelessness by providing services with life skills that will enable them to live independently, with self- determination of giving back to their communities.
“Equip, Education and Empowerment”
The Welfare Cycle and Living in Poverty Ends Here.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T!
Leadership and Team Members
Helen J. Slaughter
Owner/ President
Carolyn R. Slaughter
Vice President
Carla R. Slaughter
Secretary
Carmen J, Slaughter
Treasurer
Jennifer Preston-Bell
Member
Charlotte Patterson
Member
Maron Reed
Member