Aspire to Serve the Difficult Cases

Ministries naturally gravitate toward serving applicants most likely to succeed — not from bad intentions, but a sincere desire for stability. Valerie Lindsay, Executive Director of the Maternity Housing Coalition at Heartbeat International, explains how that quiet drift can narrow who gets served and how "success" even gets measured. Valerie has worked in maternity housing and pregnancy help ministry since 2006, bringing a social worker's training in attachment theory and trauma-informed car...