other step toward getting her education and independence on Saturday when she graduated out of Shiloh Home of Hope and into an apartment with her daughter.
Ashley Ladd had found her way from Decatur, Ala., to Shiloh via the Internet.
“After I got pregnant, I was looking for somewhere to go,” Ladd said. “I wasn’t really ready to make it by myself.”
Ladd was the first long-term resident to graduate from Shiloh’s program, which centers primarily on helping young pregnant women and women with children.
During her pregnancy, Ladd had stayed at Mercy Ministries in Alabama for a time before moving home with her parents for two weeks.
When she saw the Shiloh Web site, she thought it looked like a good fit for her.
“I needed help being a mother,” she said, adding that she also needed help focusing on getting an education that would help support her and her daughter, who will be 14 months old on Dec. 9.
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