Our Purpose

Our children are a resource. What is good for them has to be good for the whole community. These two simple mantras holistically define the work we do every day.

Every successful brand, organization, company, or movement has a slogan which represents the efforts of the group as a whole. For My Mother's Voice, our slogan is re-written every day by the people who we reach out to, and who reach out to us.

By visiting our site, reading our information and ideas, you contribute to and energize the push to improve and enrich the lives of children, and make happy living possible.

My Mother’s Voice delivers a broad range of services to youth and families to improve opportunities for lives of meaning, engagement, and stability. Our programs are designed to reduce the barriers and increase the opportunities for all community members to succeed. Our belief? Anything’s possible. Take action!

Our Efforts To Date

By 2008, we assisted 81 teen parents and over 100 babies and toddlers with essentials that most of us take for granted: a bed and clean sheets, a crib for the baby and warm clothes, nutritious food -- especially on the weekends when the school cafeteria wasn't available and Monday mornings seemed a long way away because of hunger. We saw and heard the fear and loss of hope that was starting to grow with these very young mothers and dads. There was much more to be done.

By 2010, we had over 455 kids on our needy list, and more and more parents needed jobs. They greatly appreciated the clothes and food, books and holiday toys, but they needed continuing support: work, a job, the dignity of paying their own bills. The more we helped, the more we knew we could do ... the more needed to be done.

In 2012, we were working consistently in over five counties and four major school districts. Financial stressors still dominated our California communities. High unemployment brought crushing poverty and families unable to cope with the range of needs. Collaboration with teachers and health care professionals greatly assisted positive outcomes. Young parenting programs helped keep teens in school and babies safe. Single parent programs assisted with household needs, educational and legal support. Hunger relief, educational enrichment, counseling and mentoring were among the goals achieved during the year. 

This year nearly 3,700 homeless students are enrolled in our local schools in Sacramento, Placer and El Dorado counties alone. Nearly every one of those students have parents who are considered "the working poor" or are parents who need a job. We address long lists of essential needs from our 125 teen parents who are still in school. Additionally, we assist and mentor foster children who need comfort and direction from a steady source, people who are always there for them. We have emancipated fosters who find themselves financially and emotionally adrift when they turn 18. With the energy of volunteers and a solid business plan, we can change this story from grim statistics that drain the life of the individual and the economy, into an engine of productivity.