About Marygrove
Marygrove helps children, teens and young adults learn how to transcend an abusive past or overcome other life challenges and move toward a brighter future.
Our Programs
Through our continuum of residential and community-based programming, Marygrove enriches the lives of hundreds of children, teens and young adults each year.
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Whether you’re giving time, talent or treasure, your support helps hundreds of youth and young adults build bright futures.
Latest Stories & News
Hope Grows When Trust Begins: How one therapist’s work in Treatment Foster Care changed her own life
When Theresa Hannegan graduated with her counseling degree eight years ago, she only applied to one potential place of employment: Marygrove. “I knew this was where I wanted to be,” she said. “Marygrove works with kids some people shy away from. They’re the ones with behavior challenges, deep trauma and sometimes no active family. Those…
Stephanie is a mother of three grown biological children, an IT professional and a rural Missourian. But for the girls she’s fostered through Catholic Charities ministry Good Shepherd, a Children and Family Support service line partner of Marygrove, Stephanie is much more: a steady presence. A safe place. The woman she herself needed as a child.
For Liz and Bill, fostering through Catholic Charities ministry Marygrove, a Children and Family Support service line partner of Good Shepherd, has meant opening their hearts, reuniting siblings and learning to meet children right where they are. Along the way, they’ve witnessed powerful transformations, not only in their foster children, but in themselves, too.
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