The Elizabeth House Maternity Home

Our team has fine-tuned our Five Pillars of Success that help our mothers grow as a person, a mother, and a child of God. Upon move in, each mother works with a Program Director to set personalized goals pertaining to each of the five Elizabeth House Maternity Home Pillars of Success.
 
The five pillars are:

1. Judeo Christian formation - This includes prayer time, Bible study, and Church membership or community.
2. Employment or Education - We help each mom seek and obtain employment, enroll in a GED course, part time college courses, vocational training (or the like).
3. Finances - One of the ways that Elizabeth House sets mothers in crisis back on their feet is by helping them establish a successful financial plan. Regular saving, budgeting, tracking and reviewing of finances is required. And it is helping moms succeed!! One of our moms just bought her first house - three years post graduation! She is now providing a safe, stable home for her daughter.
4. Family - Our moms learn to manage a household, receive parenting training, help with scheduling and attending appointments, and submitting applications for community resources in a timely manner.
5. Relationships - We work on building wholesome relationships with staff and roommates, and offer classes on communication skills. 

Not only have we strived to build a consistent yet personalized approach with our residents to help them build a better life, but our leadership team has itself taken and applied this philosophy of real change to the inner workings of the organization.

We created procedures and training to smooth the handoff to new leadership to encourage innovative ideas while laying a strong foundation. We’ve automated what could be automated to eliminate wasted time and money. We’ve worked out kinks in communication. We’ve improved our ability to match volunteers’ gifts and talents with jobs that serve the needs of each individual mom. We’ve searched for and discovered more existing community networks that can connect us with pregnant women in crisis and can provide a network of support for our moms as they journey towards independence.

The Elizabeth House Maternity Home was born in Bryan/College Station as a direct result of the Planned Parenthood abortion facility being shut down here in Aggieland. Local Christians, energized by the victory over the abortion giant, quickly organized to form a maternity home. That’s how we locals view the Elizabeth House. It’s a visible reminder of the power of God working through ordinary people in our community to accomplish big things. God continues to transform the hearts and lives of mothers and their children - born and unborn - through the hearts and hands of staff and volunteers every day!
 
Since that time of explosive growth, our board and staff have worked hard to channel the high energy stage of a new organization that was just learning to take its unwieldy first steps - guiding it forward to next stage of maturity - to achieve the long term goal of always being ready to help mothers who are in crisis to create a better life for themselves and their children. 
 
Real transformation - lasting change - is hard work. It’s not glamorous and it’s literally invisible to a world that puts emphasis on instant results and quick fixes. But that is exactly what we’ve been working on at Elizabeth House this year.