A Baby's Breath

A Baby's Breath began 20 years ago on August 15, 2000.  We started with a mission "...to help a mother to see her child take his/her first breath."   One center grew to 5 in 15 years offering free services of counseling, classes, ultrasounds, job training and housing for moms.   Then a book was written called Creating Compassionate Places by the Founder, Karen Patota, on how to create, maintain and grow centers that offer real help in a crisis pregnancy.  Karen has a model that can easily be adopted by four people or less initially to offer Catholic social services.  The model is self sustaining without government support and run by volunteers including Karen, the CEO.   For more information on how to start a Catholic social service in your community, please visit our website.