Welcome from the Executive Director

Dear Friends of Marian House:

Since its founding 28 years ago, Marian House has become known as the leading organization that provides high quality rehabilitative services and housing to women and their children. With your support we are able to provide comprehensive services to many women who have suffered from trauma, physical and sexual abuse, addictions, and other challenges that left them homeless, unemployed and often separated from their families.

We thank you for your generosity and investment in our work that allowed us to serve 125 women and 31 children during this past fiscal year.

Over the past 18 months, our Board of Directors, Corporate Board and Staff developed a strategic plan as a guiding framework for Marian House for the period 2010-2015. We highlight in this annual report the five goals that shape this plan and describe our aspirations to care for more women and children in our community.

We are very proud of this plan for the future and we are excited to share it with you!

In addition to establishing goals for our future, this strategic planning process solidified our guiding principles and beliefs:

• We believe that all women have the potential to live healthy and productive lives.
• We believe that every family deserves to have a “home” that provides a loving and caring environment.
• We believe that healing begins by confronting past negative experiences and reshaping attitudes to build a different future.
• We believe in work.
• We believe in giving back to the community.
• We believe that transitional housing is a valuable tool for helping homeless women and children stabilize their lives and move into permanent homes.

We are indebted to the Board of Directors, Corporate Board and Staff for their dedication, hard work, time and energy in the development of a vision for the next ten years and in the development of an implementation plan to advance the vision. If you wish to receive a copy of the plan in its entirety, please contact us.

We appreciate you for being such an important part of our history, and look forward to having you be a part of our future!

Sincerely,

Katie Allston, LCSW-C
Executive Director

P.S. Before we know it, we will be celebrating Marian House’s 30th Anniversary in 2012! This will be a wonderful opportunity to honor all that the Sisters of Mercy and the School Sisters of Notre Dame envisioned years ago, and what has been accomplished since then, by so many, in caring for thousands of women and children in need.