The women’s and children’s program is currently in development and will be launching soon. Our website has been designed to convey our service offering at launch.
Focused Outreach Richmond is actively preparing to support pregnant women, mothers, and young children in a confidential support program.
Focused Outreach Richmond is a Richmond, Virginia 501(c)(3) that exists for one reason: to walk with mothers and children through the moments that decide whether tomorrow looks like the last bad day or the first stable one.
Focused Outreach Richmond was founded in 2011 to focus federal- and state-level programs on the veterans, formerly incarcerated, and other Virginians who fall through the cracks of larger systems.
The barriers we work alongside rarely arrive alone. Homelessness stacks with incarceration. Substance use stacks with untreated mental-health conditions. Domestic-violence histories stack with the financial cliffs that follow them. Our staff is built to hold all of that in one case file — and one relationship.
Out of that work, Focused Outreach Richmond is building out a women and children’s housing pathway centered on confidential intake, safety planning, and long-term family stability.
Focused Outreach Richmond leadership sees the same pattern repeatedly: when mothers and children have stable housing, coordinated support, and trusted community partners, recovery outcomes improve and family reunification is more sustainable.
One mother in early recovery had no women-centered housing option that could safely keep her with her toddler. Without this program, she cycled between temporary stays, missed appointments, and growing risk. This house model is designed so that story becomes less common in Richmond.
Three stages. Same team. The handoffs are inside the room, not between agencies.
Listening, assessing, and standing up a plan that takes the next 72 hours seriously — for mothers and children arriving in distress.
A safe room of their own, daily routines, treatment plans, and the support that keeps mothers and children together while things get better.
Education, employment, and long-term housing — so the family that walked in is the family that walks forward.
Licensed clinicians, case managers, and peer recovery specialists working together so handoffs happen inside the room — not between agencies.
Director
Licensed clinicians provide clinical expertise that supports integrated care collaboration with case managers, peers, and community providers.
Team Lead Case Manager
Coordinates the case-management team and the partner network that surrounds every client's plan.
Case Managers
Registered peer recovery specialists working directly with clients in reintegration, residential treatment, and the Women & Children’s House.
