Jireh’s Place, founded by Shakina R. Dunbar, serves as an alternative placement facility for girls who have been removed from their home environments. Jireh’s Place seeks to nurture each girl by providing happy, healthy, and prosperous lifestyles for all who enter our home by enhancing their physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Jireh’s Place provides an environment that enhances positive relationship building and challenges young girls to learn.

In addition to providing home environments for teen girls, Jireh’s Place will also implement community outreach programs designed to assist young girls in building life skills, to equip them for successful living. Community collaborations are currently underway to promote education, team building, leadership skills, healthy relationships, community service, sex education, and prevention against HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, and gang participation. These outreach programs will also provide parents and caregivers with the resources needed to assist them in adolescent parenting.

Jireh’s Place long-term goal is to create Helen’s Love, an independent living facility for young mother’s ages 16-23. This facility will be designed to provide housing for young mothers and their children. Support services will include parent education for young mothers and fathers, life skills, early intervention screening for children, pre and post-natal care, and employment and career training. The primary goal of this program is to keep young mothers and their children united, provide young mothers with resources to become sufficient, independent parents, and to end intergenerational cycles of teen/young parenting.