24/7 Intake Center
The LABIR Love and Care Intake Center is a 24/7 sanctuary of hope, healing, and immediate support for individuals and families in crisis. Designed with dignity and compassion at its core, our center offers round-the-clock access to trauma-informed care for:
🏠 Individuals experiencing homelessness
👩👧 Single mothers and their children
🔁 Returning citizens reentering the community
💊 Mothers seeking detox and recovery while remaining with their children
Our multidisciplinary team includes licensed therapists, compassionate nurses, and peer support specialists who are always on-site to provide immediate assessments, emotional stabilization, and personalized care planning. We offer emergency shelter placement, crisis intervention, and direct pathways to long-term housing, treatment, and family reunification services.
At LABIR, we believe no one should navigate crisis alone. Our Intake Center is more than a point of entry—it’s a place where healing begins, families are preserved, and futures are reclaimed.
Wrap-Around Clinic
Our on-site clinic provides compassionate, round-the-clock medical support for families in transition. Staffed 24/7 by licensed nurses and supported by an on-call physician, we offer immediate care, wellness checks, and personalized detox services in a safe, judgment-free environment. Whether you're seeking relief, recovery, or routine care, our team is here to walk with you—day and night—with dignity, discretion, and love.
On-Site Child Care
ON-SITE CHILD CARE
Our child care center is a joyful, nurturing space designed to support families during times of transition. Open daily, it offers a safe and stimulating environment where children can play, learn, and thrive under the care of trained, trauma-informed staff. With age-appropriate activities, cozy reading nooks, and culturally affirming toys, we honor each child’s creativity and resilience.
By providing reliable on-site care, we help parents relieve one major stressor—knowing their children are safe and supported—so they can fully engage in healing. While little ones play nearby, caregivers are free to attend wellness groups, workshops, and educational programs, or pursue job training and employment opportunities. It’s one more way we walk with families toward renewal, stability, and self-sufficiency—together.
LABIR Love and Care empowers single mothers and their children to break free from the cycle of poverty and homelessness by providing transitional housing, life-skills training, and youth enrichment—all under one roof.
My Story
About Us
I have known struggle intimately. Raised in instability, faced abandonment, and navigated life without the foundational love and guidance every child deserves. Mental health challenges went unnoticed, my voice was unheard, and I was left to fight battles that should never have been fought alone. These experiences shaped me, but they never defined me. Instead, they fueled a passion within me, a determination to create real solutions for women who, like me, have been overlooked, misunderstood, and underserved.
November of 2018, I found myself homeless in Washington, DC, with five children, desperate for shelter and support. What should have been a simple request for assistance from Virginia Williams, the city’s central intake center. turned into a harsh lesson on how difficult it is for single mothers to access resources.
I was denied help, pushed through bureaucratic loopholes, and forced to lie just to get basic survival needs met. That moment changed everything for me, I realized that there was no real, structured support for women like me, mothers who need more than just temporary aid, but a path to stability, independence, and long-term success.
That is why I created LABIR Love and Care. A shelter designed not just as a place of refuge, but as a foundation for empowerment. With childcare, counseling, life skills training, financial literacy, career development, and homeownership programs, my goal is to provide single mothers with the tools to rebuild their lives from the ground up. I want them to know they are not alone, that they are worthy of support, and that their struggles do not have to define their future.
Single mothers face some of the highest rates of housing insecurity, underemployment, and generational hardship in the nation. Their children, too, often lack structured support and confidence-building opportunities after school. Without wraparound services that address both parent and child, families remain trapped in instability, unable to build toward long-term success.
LABIR Love and Care offers a proven, integrated model: a trauma-informed transitional home for mothers, coupled with a robust after-school program for youth. Mothers receive safe housing, peer-led support groups, budgeting and home-ownership coaching, and connections to employers. Meanwhile, their children participate in hands-on cooking labs, hygiene and self-care workshops, conflict-resolution role-plays, team leadership exercises, and quarterly capstone sleepovers and mountain retreats. This dual-track approach ensures both generations gain the practical skills, self-worth, and community networks they need to thrive.
LABIR Love and Care transforms survival into stability, and stability into self-sufficiency. LABIR is built on resilience, understanding, and a commitment to changing the narrative for single mothers. We believe in the power of second chances, uplifting families, and building communities that refuse to leave anyone behind.
Family Reunification
Structed Housing
Financial Literacy
Home Ownership
Child Care
Transportation
Educational Development
Long Term Stability
Job Readiness
Personal Development
Host Homes
Certified Peer Navigator
Meet The Team
Katherine Hutchens
Licensed Therapist
Dr. Sariah Beatty
Licensed Therapist
Shawnte' Mallory-CEO
Strengthening Families Coach
Devon King
Youth Mentor
Keilien Crenshaw
CMT Youth Mentor
Our Partners
LABIR Love and Care transforms survival into stability, and stability into self-sufficiency. By investing in our integrated transitional home and youth services, stakeholders help rewrite the futures of single-parent families—one empowered mother and one confident child at a time.
Join us in building homes, hearts, and legacies.
