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Villa Majella is SB County’s only maternity home, providing safe shelter, 24/7 support, transportation, warm meals, and access to vital services. Each year, they serve 14–20 pregnant women and their babies, many arriving homeless, in crisis, and without support.
Most face complex challenges, including substance use, trauma, or mental health issues. Villa Majella offers them stability, and the chance to thrive.
Their fundraiser on Saturday, 10/11 celebrates this circle of care and the lives transformed through it. Villa Majella invites you to join in uplifting mothers and infants at a time they need it most.
Villa Majella of Santa Barbara
Donate now!www.villamajella.org
Loretta Johnson, PhD
(805) 683-2838
Mission
Begin to Build a Relationship
We know you care about where your money goes and how it is used. Connect with this organization’s leadership in order to begin to build this important relationship. Your email will be sent directly to this organization’s director of development and/or Executive Director.
Help Vulnerable New Mothers Find Safety and Support
Villa Majella is asking for your generous support to help vulnerable women through their pregnancies and the postpartum period, as they rebuild their lives and avoid chronic homelessness.
“We are their support system,” says Villa Majella’s Executive Director Loretta Johnson. “Returning home from the hospital to stay in a Maternity Home means that our moms have a staff who take on the crucial role of a partner during this precious time.”
•$35,000 will help buy a new van for transportation to doctors’ appointments (Villa Majella transports women and newborns seven days a week, many times in the middle of the night!).
• $15,000 will help keep program participants and their infants healthy by funding the installation of air conditioning into the home.
•$10,000 will fund General Operating Support so that staff can accompany women and infants 24/7 during their stay.
Key Supporters
Santa Barbara Foundation
Cavalletto Charities
Wood-Claeyssens Foundation
Williams-Corbett Foundation
Rotary Club of Santa Barbara North
United Way
of Santa Barbara County