garden home ministries
Garden Home Ministries was founded on April 1, 2019 to provide holistic-care for female victims of sexual exploitation and trafficking. Garden Home Ministries offers three main services: advocacy, outreach, and housing. In terms of advocacy, Garden Home Ministries speaks to a variety of audiences in the region to combat the stigma surrounding addiction and human trafficking victims. Through outreach, Garden Home Ministries develops relationships with women to connect them with the resources they need to move beyond active addiction. Outreach happens throughout the North Side neighborhood, The Foundation of Hope (within the Allegheny County Jail), Female Offenders and at various agencies throughout Allegheny County. We are also an affiliate of WESTPARR (Western Pennsylvania Alliance for Recovery Residences). Lastly, Garden Home Ministries provides housing to women in the early stages of recovery with safety, security, and accountability. Our long-term recovery homes also provide women with resources vital to recovery and reintegration into society through faith, counseling, life skills, Twelve Step groups, money management, and more.
the sunflower house
The Sunflower House (Sunflower) has been operational since May 1, 2020 with hopes of opening four additional houses (Rose, Daisy, Magnolia, and Azalea) and drop-in center in the next several years. Sunflower provides up to ten women with housing to combat chronic homelessness and criminality, due to addiction and/or mental health symptoms that both lead to the trap of exploitation and trafficking. Through this housing, Garden Home Ministries clients will have a physical address and become eligible to receive support and services offered by the City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny and surrounding Counties. The physical address will also allow the ladies to obtain ID’s, driver's licenses and the opportunity for employment, which will allow the women to better acclimate back into society after being released from prison or while in recovery. Lastly, success of our homes will be defined through the amount of women that are served, as they progress in their recovery, and as they break the cycle of addiction, exploitation and trafficking.