You won't want to miss being a part of the Sisters Place celebration of the 10th Anniversary Crushed Grapes Wine Tasting Event March 8, 2012, U.S. Steel Tower on Grant Street in downtown Pittsburgh 5:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Learn more about the event and get ticket information here. Ready to purchase your tickets now? Click here

Sisters Place is expanding!

We are excited to announce that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded funding to Sisters Place for our Day Light Housing Program to support an additional five families in 2011. We plan to rent and fully furnish five new units in the vicinity of our current 27 families. Planning incudes having more children in our summer camp, after-school programming, youth mentoring, and teen group. Our goal is to have homes ready for five new families by mid-August. To help sponsor a new home or donate to the Day Light Program, please call 412-233-3903

Collaboration is making a difference.

Sisters Place, the Homeless Children's Education Fund (HCEF), the Homeless Education Network (HEN), and the Clairton Education Center (CEC) have been collaborating on ways to improve communication and support for the children experiencing homelessness in the Clairton school district.

Since last summer the group has worked to establish opportunities for educators and parents to communicate better around the needs of the children. The results of the Clairton Collaborative are being tracked by academic research. Even though it's too early to have hard data supporting the success of the collaborative, all involved believe it has been an excellent investment of time and resources.

To learn more see the HCEF report of the "what and the how" of the Clairton Collaborative, which is making a difference for mothers as well as for their children.

We know that being a single mom is a challenge.
Being a homeless single mom is nearly insurmountable

– unless she has been touched by the compassionate hand of Sisters Place.

Then she no longer is lost in aimless desperation. She embraces the new opportunity she has been given. She recovers. She progresses toward independence. She is able to celebrate
each day with her family.

Sisters Place specializes in filling the gaps that exist in addressing our residents' needs: mental health care, life skills training, career development, substance abuse recovery, and housing placement assistance when the family is ready to move on. Since its inception in 1993, Sisters Place has served over 140 mothers. We are proud that our programs help these families break the cycle of poverty and homelessness, rebuild their lives, and achieve self-sufficiency.