Corner House, Inc., an organization that provides housing and treatment services for people in recovery, soon will expand its service offerings to female veterans and mothers with dependent children.
The Mother Child Project is a sizeable, years-long project, one that will result in a new facility that will be built to house mothers along with their children, according to executive director Sara Hansen.
“The Mother Child Project is essentially a transitional housing and support services program that will be available to women who are mothers with dependent children and single mothers,” Hansen said. “We will provide for them up to 24 months of housing and other supportive services to help get them back into the community.”
The project is expected to cost approximately $1.1 million, and the campaign to raise the money is coming to an end. The organization only has to raise about $169,000 to reach that mark. Corner House recently got a big boost when it received a challenge grant for $117,500 from the JE and LE Mabee Foundation of Tulsa.
That grant wouldn’t have been possible without some last-minute help from the Clint Bowyer 79 Fund and a few other individual donors.
“It was a squeaker,” Hansen said, explaining that Corner House had to have a certain amount of money toward its goal even to be considered for the grant. With little time left for the application deadline at the end of October, the organization was more than $10,000 short.
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