Posts tagged motherhood
Bridges to Housing: Breaking the Cycle
Bridges to Housing: Breaking the Cycle

Imagine coming from a series of broken homes, left emotionally and psychologically scarred from your childhood, abandoned by your family, jumping from foster home to foster home. In such an unforgiving world, you turn to drugs as your only escape as you enter into adulthood with no home, no income, and no support from family.

When you find out that you are going to be a parent, you know you would do anything for your child to save him from the life you have lived. That was the situation Cindy found herself in before finding FrontLine Service’s Bridges to Housing program.

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FrontLine StoriesBruce Waltonhomelessness, motherhood, mother, child, father, fatherhood, Bridges to Housing, FrontLine Stories
Children Who Witness Violence: A Mother's Resolve
Children Who Witness Violence: A Mother's Resolve

Michelle is a single mother, caring for her 10 year old son, Jaden, and her infant daughter in the peacefulness of their new home. She hasn’t missed a day of work in years, doing her best to provide them with everything that they need. She loves them deeply. She knows that as they grow older they will likely learn the full extent of her sacrifices and the courage that it took for her to drastically change the environment in which they live.

Only a few short years ago, Michelle lived with the father of her children in a home filled with abuse and hateful words. Over the years there would be occasions that the neighbors could not ignore, his verbal abuse and physical violence toward Michelle would escalate and a call would go out to the police.

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success storyBruce WaltonCWWV, trauma, FrontLine Service, domestic violence, mother, motherhood, child, son
Mobile Crisis Team: Unbreakable Bond
Mobile Crisis Team: Unbreakable Bond

FrontLine’s Mobile Crisis Team is available 24/7 to anyone in Cuyahoga County who is in crisis or contemplating suicide. That is how Janice found us. Janice’s 28-year-old daughter, Maria, was homeless for 60 days in the previous year. While in crisis, Maria had given up her apartment for the streets, and Janice had no idea how to find or help her. Her daughter simply notified the landlord and started sleeping in her car on the street. Then she just disappeared.

Janice called the only resource she knew who could help: FrontLine Service’s Mobile Crisis Team.

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success story, FrontLine StoriesBruce Waltonmobile crisis, crisis, suicide, mental health, mother, motherhood, daughter, child