LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — For roughly 20 years, Living Grace Homes has built its mission to serve.
Specifically, helping pregnant teens and young women who don’t have a place to call home as they learn to raise their newborns.
“Living Grace in the last 18 years has had a huge impact on healthy moms and healthy babies, which of course contributes to a healthy community, and we want to expand that,” Living Grace Homes founding director Kathleen Miller said.
Expansion is in full view for Miller as she walked FOX 5 through what will be a new facility to support their cause.
While it’s a bit rundown and unassuming right now, the vision is to create what will be the nonprofit’s Safe and Sound campus.
“We’re planting fruit trees. We’ll have some chicken coops so that the moms can learn to grow and get their own food. Taking care of chickens is a way to help the moms learn to be more nurturing. That will then translate into their ability to be more nurturing toward their baby,” Miller said.
“We also are planning on two additional buildings on the property. One will be a program building and laundromat and counseling rooms, and the other one will be an on-site daycare with additional transitional housing… They’ll be right on property and they’ll have the ability to still access the resources available at living race homes.”
Now there is a lot of work ahead to make Miller’s vision a reality.
That’s why Living Grace is hosting a Day of Service, asking the community to pitch in to renovate and start this passion project on the right foot.
“They may be putting down some vinyl plank on the flooring. They may be painting. They need to be doing a little bit of wall patching, moving some furniture in,” Miller said.
“The day of caring is really an opportunity for the community, different groups, different organizations, different businesses, to come and learn about Living Grace Homes while they’re getting their hands dirty.”
Though it may be a dirty job, Miller’s driven by the longstanding mission to give young women a clean start in their new lives as mothers.
She told FOX 5 this facility would essentially triple their capacity to house women in need and may possibly help them expand their reach to older mothers navigating homelessness.
“We can only serve 10 moms at a time. This will allow us to open up 14 emergency beds,” Miller said.
“There will be fellowship and there’ll be an opportunity to really see if there’s a long term commitment for you to be involved with Living Grace Homes and making a difference in the lives of our young moms.”
The Living Grace Homes Day of Service is set for Friday, July 25.
If you’d like to help the cause, you can find more information here.
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