OXFORD, Mich. – House of Providence will complete its new home for their foster girls on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. The home is a single-story, 8,422-square-foot house that includes a covered patio and porch. This is the second of three houses they have planned to build on the 118.32 acres on Barber Rd. in Oxford Township. The first one which opened in November 2018, it was built for the organization’s foster boys. The third home will be for disabled foster children. Each home will sit on their own parcel of 25.15 acres, 34.06 acres and 34.24 acres. House of Providence would like to house 10 children in each home for a maximum of 30 occupants.

House of Providence is currently trying to change the Michigan Zoning Enabling Act with House Bill No. 4095. This would increase the number of children able to live at a state-licensed residential facility from six or less to a maximum of 10 if the facility is licensed under the Child Care Licensing Act and located on a parcel of 20 acres or more.

According to the founder Maggie Dunn, “This is the business we are in, this is what we signed up for: We gladly walk into the paralyzing, awful, soul-stealing trauma that has arrested every part of these sweet children, and when they give up, we say: ‘That’s OK, I’ve got it from here!’  We boldly walk inch-by-inch toward the finish line marked by healing, freedom, and wholeness.”

House of Providence provides a home for foster children who have been mistreated or have yet to be adopted. They provide a therapeutic and familial environment for minors who are suffering in the foster care system.  Their mission is to grow the children into whole, independent and successful adults realizing their full potential while offering a support system.

House of Providence is a nonprofit in Michigan that provides services that afford foster children emotional, mental and physical safety. Through this, the foster children who come, eventually stabilize and receive trauma-focused therapy.  This stabilization allows them to reintegrate into the community through the vehicle of a family. House of Providence no longer wants aging out of the foster system to be a viable option. For more information, visit www.thehofp.org. Follow House of Providence on Facebook (www.facebook.com/thehofp), Twitter (www.twitter.com/thehofp) and Instagram (www.instagram.com/thehofp).

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