Empowering Mothers, Building Futures
The Mothers Making a Change Program of the Highland Rivers Foundation understands how substance use disorders can be hurtful to women and families. For this reason, the foundation provides services and resources to those affected. The Foundation is currently seeking major corporate donations to relocate Highland Rivers’ Women’s TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) program in Cobb County from apartments to a permanent facility that can support programs and services for more than 25 women and their children.
The Mothers Making a Change Program also has a long history of giving support and hope to pregnant and postpartum women and/or women who are working on reunification with children. The program services support all women in achieving abstinence, maintaining recovery, avoiding illegal activity, meeting responsibilities, and maintaining employment for safe housing.
The need is for a facility, renovations, and/or land to build a new facility in Cobb County to support this program.
Mothers Making a Change FAQ’s
How is the program funded?
MMAC is funded by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities specifically for women who want to stop using substances but may not have financial resources, are uninsured or have Medicaid or other public insurance. For eligible women, there is no cost for the program.
What advantages does the Austell facility offer?
The Austell building is an ideal facility for the MMAC program. The building has adequate space to house a 40-bed residential program, as well as meeting rooms, group rooms, staff offices, dining room and institutional kitchen – all in one building, all in one place. The limited number of exterior doors means the building can be efficiently secured, while the large lot provides adequate recreational space for the women and their children that will be enclosed with a secure privacy fence.
Has Highland Rivers ever had a program like this in a neighborhood before?
Yes. In fact, an identical program, called Women’s Outreach, has operated in Floyd County (Rome) since 1998. The program serves approximately 200 women each year (approximately 2,900 since it began), and there has never been a baby born to a mother in the program that tested positive for drugs. The Women’s Outreach program been in its current location in Rome for approximately 20 years, on a street which leads to a residential area very similar to the neighborhood in Austell. Most local neighbors are not even aware that a residential substance use treatment program has been operating in their neighborhood for decades.
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