The Mary Magdalene Home Alaska, Inc. (MMHA) is a non-profit faith-based organization providing a network of care to support women leaving a life of sexual exploitation in transforming their lives spirituality, mentally, and physically.  MMHA is dedicated to the recovery and rehabilitation of women who have been involved in prostitution and seek a way to redirect their lives.

This project was founded on the conviction that people can and do change.  It is named after a person whose life was changed profoundly for the good by divine and human love.  The project participants are people whose lives have been blessed, forgiven, and changed by this same love and power.  In gratitude, they now hope to share that love and transforming experience with other, in particular, adult female prostitutes.

The objectives of the project shall be to provide adult female prostitutes the resources necessary for successful transition to a more productive lifestyle.  These resources include but, are not limited to : food, housing, clothing and opportunities for personal, emotional and spiritual growth.  Additionally, access to vocational training, education, medical, dental and counseling services are available.

What MMHA currently offers the community:

• Outreach at Hiland Mountain Correctional Center through weekly facilitated peer support and educational groups.
• Residential home and rehabilitation program for up to five women at one time
• Weekly peer and group sessions with a certified case manager
• Housing relocation services
• Food
• Clothing
• Counseling
• Job Skills
• Bus Passes
• Referrals to other, local organizations who are able to assist in the immediate needs of women.

Our Vision for a better, safer community

There are many more things we would like to do. We plan to expand our services into these areas in the future:

• A correctional facility program to provide rehabilitative support and educational services to incarcerated women.
• A non-residential program to provide on-going rehabilitative support, such as counseling and case management to current and former sex for sale workers, preventative and educational support to women at risk of becoming involved in the sex for sale and advocacy to decrease barriers to services.
• An outreach program to make face to face contact with active street prostitutes and offer sexually transmitted disease prevention information.
• A residential program to provide a safe and stable rehabilitative living environment for women who do not want to return to the sex for sale industry.  Our program will be designed to work with established agencies providing services, such as substance abuse, sexual abuse, sexually transmitted disease prevention and detection.