I NEED HELP
YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
Here, you'll find a home, a community, and a fresh start for you and your baby.
WHEREVER YOU ARE, WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE HERE.
Maybe you just found out. Maybe you've known for a while and have been trying to hold it all together on your own. Maybe you don't know where else to turn.
Wherever you're coming from, whatever your story is, you are welcome here. We've walked this path with many women before you. You are not the first, and you won't be alone.
At St. Gianna's Place you can count on a real home, a case manager in your corner, and a community of women walking a similar road. Together, we help you build the foundation for the future you and your baby deserve.
You and your baby come first here.
WHO WELCOME
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HOW HELP
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WHAT YOU CAN COUNT ON
Since 2019
Serving pregnant women in Southern NH
Free of cost
Nothing to pay, ever
Any state
Women welcomed from anywhere
Any stage
Any point in pregnancy
WHAT LIFE HERE LOOKS LIKE
A Safe Home to Call Your Own
St. Gianna's Place is a maternity home in the Catholic tradition, located in Southern New Hampshire. Here, you can live throughout your pregnancy and up to two years after your baby is born.
Our home is warm and welcoming, with private bedrooms, full bathrooms, a kitchen, a dining room, and a family room. We even have a play area where your baby can learn, grow, and thrive.
Women come to St. Gianna's Place to find stability, healing, and a fresh start. While you're here, you'll set personal goals, build employment skills, create a budget, attend classes, and develop a strong foundation for the life you want to build for yourself and your child.
Our team walks beside you every step of the way. We help you stay on track with medical appointments and other important commitments. Whenever possible, we provide transportation, which often becomes more than just a ride. Those moments become how we get to know you, hear your story, and build real friendship.
Here, hope takes root, strong foundations are built, and new beginnings begin.
Need somewhere to sleep tonight? We can point you to shelters that can help right now.
Let's be honest.
Your days at St. Gianna's have a rhythm.
One that gives you room to rest, room to grow, and room to remember who you are becoming.
A DAY IN THE HOUSE:
and every day, you are held.
Mornings, 9:30
The house starts the day together. Prayer, coffee, and a plan for the day.
Daytime
Work, school, or classes built around what you actually need. Parenting. GED. Cooking. Finance. Driving. CPR. Real skills for real life.
Evenings
Dinner around the table together. Rest and relaxing with the kind of community that starts to feel like family.
Sundays
We go to Mass together as a house.
A DAY IN THE HOUSE:
WHAT YOU'LL FIND HERE
EVERYTHING TO THRIVE.
A Real Home
You'll have a place to live through your whole pregnancy and up to two years after your baby is born. A house with private bedrooms, a full kitchen, and quiet spaces to rest.
A Case Manager in Your Corner
Life Skills You'll Actually Use
Someone whose job is to know you, walk with you, and help connect you to prenatal care and everything else you need along the way.
Classes in parenting, cooking, personal finance, driving, CPR, and more. Real skills for the life you're building.
Everything Your Baby Needs
Transportation and Childcare Help
Clothes, a crib, diapers, formula. Everything to bring your baby home to. You don't have to bring a thing.
We help you get where you need to go, whether that's a doctor's appointment or your job.
Educational Support
GED support, driving education, and scholarship opportunities for continuing education. Because your future matters too.
Support That Doesn't End at the Door
We don't consider our work done once you leave. We stay connected with our mothers and their babies, walking with them as they continue to grow and build the life they came here to create.
~ Isaiah 58:11
"You shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water whose waters never fail."
Growing Together
Healing and growth take courage, and every new beginning starts with a single step.
Life here comes with commitments:
- Work or attend school 20 hours a week
- Complete goal assignments
- Participate in in-house classes, prayer, and Sunday Mass
- Respect the rules and values of the house
- Help care for the home and shared living spaces
- Save 30% of your income
- Make paying off debt a priority
- Maintain sobriety
It's the structure that makes real change possible, and every woman in the house is working the same plan. You won't be doing any of it alone.
At St. Gianna's Place, we ask each woman to embrace the opportunities before her. To participate, to learn, and to grow. Our program is designed to help you build confidence, strengthen your independence, and create a strong foundation for the future you and your baby deserve.
HOW IT WORKS
Step 1: Complete the Application
Filling out an application is the best first step, and it's easier than you might think. If you have questions along the way, call or text us. A real person will get back to you.
Step 2: Application Review
Once we review your application, we'll contact you to schedule a conversation with our Resident Manager or Director of Residents. We'll introduce ourselves, learn more about your story, and schedule an in-person interview whenever possible.
Step 3: The First Interview
Our team will explain the program in more detail, answer any questions you have, and walk you through the next steps.
From Application to Move-In.
Step 4: Next Steps Toward Move-In
After your first interview, we'll guide you through everything else. The whole process typically takes a few weeks from application to move-in.
We look forward to getting to know you and walking with you every step of the way.
Step 1:
Complete the Application
Step 2:
Application Review
Step 3:
The First Interview
Step 4:
Next Steps Toward Move-In
At St. Gianna's Place, I've been able to recover and focus on myself and my son while I work toward my future."
— ELLA, ST. GIANNA'S PLACE RESIDENT
Frequently Asked Questions
No. A shelter is a place you pass through. St. Gianna’s Place is a safe and nurturing home where you contribute to the life of the home and build relationships with others and grow in relationship with God.
If you need immediate housing tonight, we've put together a list of shelters that can help right now.
Q. Is it like a shelter?
Everyone is welcome at St. Gianna's Place, no matter where you are with faith. That said, faith is a vital part of who we are and how we live. We pray together and attend Mass every Sunday, and we hope you'll come to see it as a meaningful part of your time here.
Q. Do I have to be Catholic or a person of faith?
Residents at St. Gianna's Place stay throughout their pregnancy and up to two years after their baby is born.
Q. How long can I stay?
No. Women come to us from many different states.
Q. Do I have to be from New Hampshire?
18 or older.
Q. How old do I have to be?
You are welcome at any stage of pregnancy.
Q. How far along do I need to be?
Q. Can I work whlle I'm there?
Yes, and we hope you will! Working or being in school is part of life here, and we'll help support your transportation and childcare needs.
This is determined on a case by case situation, depending on the child's age and needs.
Q. What if I already have a child, can we still come?
Q. What should I bring?
Just yourself! Your assigned case manager will be there to guide you every step of the way.
Q. Does it cost anything to live at St. Gianna's Place?
No. There is no cost to living here.
Frequently Asked Questions
We Are Ready to Welcome You Home.
You don't have to have everything figured out. You just have to take the first step. We'll walk the rest of the way with you.
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Call: (603) 521-8440
Text: (603) 514-2465
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