b'find spiritual growth, and carve their own pathways for success. So at Marys Home, families can stay as long as five years, to give space for women to establish career goals and build healthy relationships, and to have strong community support and child-care for their families.Being at Marys Home is hard work, Matthew said. Residents are constantly being challenged in our communitywhether that is healing from past trauma in therapy, learning car maintenance at Marys Home Academy, or diving into college courses while being a single par-ent. Marys Home intentionally nudges guests into challenging situations because we know that the real world is challenging also, and we want residents to approach independent living with confidence.Whats next for Dream Centers? Dream Cen-Marys Home staff follow up regularly withters is currently expanding programs to include families for up to three more years after theya trauma-informed early care and education have left the program, to ensure their recoverycenter, answering to the severe shortage in and restoration continues, and to offer furtherchildcare services that plagues families and support for other rising needs.is often a barrier to womens upward mobility. Vincentians are a network of 800,000 people, predominantly volunteers, who work in harmony with communities and churches in 150 countries to respond to needs for disaster relief, job training, food pantry and thrift store services, housing, prison reentry, and medical services.14 WWW.CITYGATENETWORK.ORG SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2022'