Project Inspire initiatives go beyond the Maternity Center to help women reach independence.
Project Inspire
Extending care and connection for up to 10 years after completing residential programs.
Our commitment extends beyond immediate needs, offering sustained support to help families maintain housing stability and prevent a return to being unhoused. The Haven of Grace fosters emotional resilience through family-style encouragement and relationship-building, while also providing access to crucial resources for educational advancement, workforce participation, and financial growth. Our guidance through life's milestones aims to help families build generational wealth and achieve long-term stability.
Dorm-style rooms and home-style common areas designed to support up to 10 women and their families.
Furnished apartments on our campus, offering structured, independent living for up to 7 families.
Extended care & connection for up to 10 years after completing residential programs.
Honoring a Mother’s Strength and Growth
From diapers to diplomas, Project Inspire is how The Haven of Grace brings this mission to life. We serve women through our residential maternity and transitional housing program and extend care up to ten years through our Project Inspire services. Our programs are designed to interrupt generational poverty, offer healing-centered spaces, and support women and children in becoming the authors of their futures.
The Haven of Grace offers a comprehensive array of services in partnership with trusted organizations such as Nurses for Newborns, Parents as Teachers, Generate Health, Employment Connection, and others. These partnerships, alongside our dedicated team, are critical to building generational change and advancing equity in maternal and child health. Project Inspire is the blueprint. The Haven of Grace is the home. And our mission remains steadfast: to meet every mother where she is, and walk with her toward where she dares to go.
Project Inspire represents our strategic and programmatic response to these realities. It is not a one-size-fits-all model. It is a tailored framework that extends from crisis care to long-term empowerment. Our mission is to deliver programs that:
• Ensure healthy pregnancies and safe births
• Promote positive parenting and child development
• Support access to education, employment, and housing
• Provide mental health resources and community connections
• Build financial literacy and wealth-building pathways
• Equip mothers and children with tools for lifelong stability
From Healing to Leading. From Budgeting to Building Wealth.
Divine Daughters is more than a support group—it is a leadership incubator designed for the women who have walked through crisis and are now being called to rise, lead, and break cycles for the next generation. This closed, confidential empowerment program helps alumnae continue their healing while developing skills in financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and purpose-driven leadership. Each monthly session blends community, accountability, and education—with on-site childcare to remove barriers to participation.
Program Pillars
• Healing and Identity: Trauma-informed discussions, spiritual grounding, and cultural pride
• Wealth vs. Budgeting: Understanding ownership, legacy-building, and financial systems
• Career vs. Job Prep: Exploring entrepreneurial paths, personal branding, and career strategy
• Leadership in Action: Public speaking, civic engagement, and service projects
Green Beret Youth Initiative is designed to offer young people a safe and empowering space to explore their potential, develop grit, and gain life skills that extend beyond the classroom. This program helps redirect energy into positive action and cultivates pride, discipline, and self-control.
The Green Beret Youth Initiative is a twice-monthly physical and mental toughness program for inner-city youth ages 8–14. Created to build character, discipline, and emotional resilience, this program provides structured challenges, team-building activities, and motivational guidance rooted in accountability, leadership, and community pride.
Core Components
• Physical Fitness Activities and Challenges
• Character-Building Workshops
• Mentorship from Community Leaders
• Team-Based Exercises and Games
Babies/Books/Bonding
Literacy Starts with Love.
The goal of Babies/Books/Bonding is to strengthen the bond between mothers and their children while promoting early literacy in a culturally relevant, joyful, and accessible way. By creating habits of daily reading, the program prepares children for lifelong learning and helps mothers build confidence as their child’s first teacher.
Babies/Books/Bonding is a nurturing early literacy initiative within Project Inspire that supports mothers and their infants or toddlers by promoting reading, storytelling, and bonding through books. Designed with a trauma-informed approach, the program fosters strong parent-child attachment and builds foundational language and learning skills.
Core Components
• Read-Aloud Sessions with Infants and Toddlers
• Literacy-Rich Environments and Free Book Distributions
• Parent Coaching on Early Language Development
• Sensory-Based Play and Responsive Parenting
STEAM - Dream - Succeed
Igniting Potential Through Hands-On Learning
STEAM–Dream–Succeed aims to close the opportunity gap by giving children from historically underserved communities access to early exposure to STEAM fields. The program promotes both academic preparedness and a belief in their ability to achieve big dreams.
STEAM–Dream–Succeed is a dynamic enrichment program under Project Inspire that introduces children of Haven of Grace families to science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) concepts in an engaging and culturally affirming environment. Held twice monthly, the program serves children ages 5–12, cultivating curiosity, confidence, and long-term academic engagement through hands-on learning.
Core Components
• Project-Based Learning
• Guest Facilitators and Mentors
• STEAM Kits and Take-Home Materials
• Fun Experiments, Art Projects, and Discovery Stations
The Inca Walker Drop-In Initiative
The Inca Walker Drop-In Initiative honors the memory of Inca Walker, a woman who faced the challenges of homelessness while pregnant and longed for stability she could not reach. Created to serve women who are often turned away from shelters, this program offers immediate relief and dignity through food, showers, clean clothing, and diapers, as well as referrals to critical resources. Open weekly, it provides a safe, supportive environment where women can regain their strength, meet urgent needs, and take steps toward stability, ensuring Inca’s legacy lives on by offering hope and care to others walking a similar path.
Your gift builds hope.
The Haven of Grace gladly accepts donations of new baby items and other basic supplies commonly used by the young mothers, preschoolers, toddlers, and infants residing in our Maternity Shelter.