Together we watched Mama T’s grow and evolve from its humble beginning as a safe place to shower, sleep and leave early the next morning. Subsequently, with your help, we raised enough money to remain open 24  hours a day during inclement weather. We learned the simple differences between steppingstones and stumbling blocks are the people taking the path. Together, we maneuvered from one steppingstone to another. Therefore, it is not bragging for us all now to say that because of the support of our community, Mama T’s is presently open 24/7 year-round and provides a hand-up, not a hand-out, to homeless residents who want to rebuild their lives. With the Lord’s help, we have become the best at the niche we fill in Ada - assisting the down-and-out homeless to turn their lives around and become honest productive citizens. We do this thru:

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1. The temporary emergency shelter – ( Transitional Living Community) - Mama T’s B & B

2. Two sober living houses -  “steppingstones” for those residents who need interim assistance between the emergency shelter and final independence

 

BUT, WE DON’T JUST WANT TO BE “THE BEST;” WE WANT TO BE THE VERY BEST – THE BEST OF THE BEST - WE WANT TO BE “THE BESTEST”!!!

 

Along that vein, let’s talk about Mama T’s anticipated “Sunshine Academy” – a 2 ½ year Therapeutic Living Community for those who, because of their criminal past, do not qualify for the emergency shelter or whose social rehabilitation cannot be accomplished on the short term basis available through Mama T’s B & B. It will be a program for men and women who have careened so far down the mountain of life that only two paths remain – learn a new way of living an honorable productive life or descend into the ugly abyss that bottoms out with a long felony prison term, a drug overdose, liver failure or a lonely deathbed with no family or friends willing to grieve their passing. Everyone fails at one time or another; it is learning from those mistakes and getting up to try again that will separate graduates of the Sunshine Academy from life’s losers.

 

HELP PUT ADA ON THE MAP OF SMALL-TOWN AMERICA as we combat the overwhelming issue of homelessness facing the nation and many communities just like ours. We intend, without government assistance, or interference, to show that small towns such as Ada, relying on their hardworking, independent citizens, churches and businesses, can take up arms against the homeless problem and its causes.

 

We will expand the services Mama T’s offers the residents of the emergency shelter who are wanting to overcome their issues and quickly rebuild new lives, while simultaneously constructing a longer-term program for those who not only need to rebuild their lives but who must create a new moral compass by which to guide themselves into the future. If you would like to know more about our endeavors and The Sunshine Academy and are reading this on the Mama T’s website, click HERE. You will find information there to give you additional details about our plans for the future. It will help you comprehend what we are all about, what the Sunshine Academy is all about, what it can accomplish in the lives of its graduates, as well as the impact of the Academy on the community in which it will exist and in which the great majority of its graduates will live.

 

HELP US COLOR IN THE GLEAMING GOLD SUN AS WE KEEP TRACK OF OUR MONETARY GOAL FOR THE EMERGENCY SHELTER, THE SOBER LIVING HOUSES AND THE SUNSHINE ACADEMY.