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Walking with Moms in Need

About Our Ministry:

 

​Walking with Moms in Need is a process through which Catholic parishes and communities “walk in the shoes” of local pregnant and parenting women in need.  Everyone should know how to help moms in difficult circumstances.

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While not trying to turn Catholic parishes into pregnancy centers, we can support local pregnancy centers where they exist, and we can also find and share other resources with pregnant and parenting women and fathers.

Join Our Ministry!

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Want to join our ministry? Our team will contact you.

Sign up here.

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Who Are Moms in Need?

 

Pregnant and parenting women and men in need are in our parishes and our neighborhoods. As Pope Francis reminds us, our parishes need to be “islands of mercy in the midst of a sea of indifference.” Everyone in the parish community should know where to refer a pregnant woman and their men in need.

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Moms in Need support could include the following members of your community:

  • Family Members

  • Relatives

  • Friends

  • Neighbors

  • Co-workers

  • Students

Any woman who is pregnant or parenting or any man that is the father parenting in challenging circumstances.

Resources

Pregnant?

Financial

Emotional Support/Healing

Medical Health

Domestic/Safety Issues

Spiritual Support

Pregnancy Resource Center (3 Locations) (831)-475-2200

Guadalupe Pregnancy Outreach (Watsonville)

831-206-8539

24 hr. HELP Line: 800-712-HELP

Grace Harbor Women’s Shelter (Watsonville)

(831) 761-3191

Sienna House (Santa Cruz) Women’s shelter for pregnant women.

(831) 425-2229

Catholic Charities 

San Benito County 831-722-2675 Santa Cruz – 831-431-6939 Watsonville – 831-722-2675

Dept. of Social Services

(Cal Works)

Santa Cruz

(831) 454-413

Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) - Santa Cruz Health

844-637-6667

Or  831-454-4339

Monterey County

831-755-4950

Adoption:

Contact Pregnancy Resource Center Santa Cruz,

Or Guadalupe Pregnancy Center

Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) - Santa Cruz Health

844-637-6667

Or  831-454-4339

Monterey County

831-755-4950

STD's and STL's contact Nurse Family Partnership

Natural Family Planning

Fertility Care Services of the Central Coast

831-443-3743

Walnut Avenue Family and Women’s Center (Santa Cruz) ( Has safehouses)

(831) 426-3062

Santa Cruz Adult Protective Services

(Santa Cruz)

Has Safehouses

(831) 454-4101

Human Trafficking Arukha Project and AAUW Santa Cruz

St. Joseph’s First Friday Rosary Mass in Partnership with Guadalupe Pregnancy Center. 

PRAYERS:

Request Prayers for Pregnant Mothers Call Parish Office

831-475-8211

Adoption:

All Resource centers above have information on how to set up adoptions

Martha’s Helpers

(Meal Support)

grenier.megan@gmail.com

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