HomeMy WebLinkAboutHannahs Home_Courier_08/17/2011 Hannah's Home takes in
first newborn in Tequesta
By Sade Gbrdop port from several of them,
Palm Beach Post as well as from other eom-
munity organizations.
Carol Beresford said It provides uriwe'd pre'g -,
she always had a heart for nant women with riot only
her mission and a love for a place to live but also with
every young girl she has parenthood counseling,,,
helped. job placement, character =
. As if her heart waset big development and ad4ti6n.
enough, it gained another counseling. It also gives
5 pounds'a, " "rid 10 ounces:to th access to online ingh,
Ov`e July 28 when Rih schdbl and:eollege coittses;. -,,
nil' Htf .tile, a maternity thxpugh Elorida Vir.idal
honuefor,sitrgl triothers," School ai Palm Beach
gained its first newb6fn.� Stake College. .
The nonprofit organi- At preent, the prop
zation opened its doors erty can handle u ' to four
in January after nearly wo but Hannah's'
four years of placing un Home intends to expand
wed mothers into private after.the present building
homes whenever they be- . is paid off, with the hope of
came available. * having spots for as- many
Beresford eventualay de- . as 24 young women when
cided there wasaneedfor ;' ieg firiished. '
a permanent facility, and Beresford, ,whose hus-
Hannah's Home of `South band, Paul, is senior pastor
Florida opened on 3 acres , at Tequesta's First Baptist
along County Line Road. Church, said that she can't
Now, . after several wait for the day to come.
months, "one of. the resi "I'll go out there and
dents gave birth to the start shoveling myself,"
home's first baby at Jupiter she said.
Medical.Center.
The 18= year- old'mother,
whom Hannah's Home
would only identify as M,
just, received her GED the
week before going into T H E J u P I T E R C O U R I E R« Wednesday, August 17,201T c( 9A
labor M1`.s grandxuother
was' the one wlo, found;.,
out AboutHanYi l ? II Hori e
and pe'rsuaded fnother
to live there.
"Knowing baby is safe
and. mom is on track" is,
what - teaks stories .like:.
Mothex M's so inspiration
al for her, Beresford said.
"I mean, where could they
havebeen ?" '
They would probably be
on the streets or moving in,_
with any man who would
take them i said Beres -.
ford,- who`.on the - Home's..:,
website speaks of an acute
need for these Homes in
Florida. She founded an-
other one in Mentor, Ohio,
just before moving to Te-
questa in 2001.
Named. for . the Old
Testament woman who
prayed to have children,
Hannah's Home calls itself
"a stand -alone ministry,"
unaffiliated with any one
church but drawing sup-
i