Sojourner House, Inc.

sojourner house provides compassionate, faith-based, in-patient residential recovery services to mothers and children in the pittsburgh area. we help addicted mothers learn to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty and chemical abuse while rebuilding damaged relationships with their children. sojourner house believes women can shatter the chains of addiction and hopelessness when surrounded by what means most to them: their children. sojourner house, inc. named after the great african american preacher, sojourner truth, was founded in 1991 by a group of women from fox chapel presbyterian church. twenty-six representatives from pittsburgh’s social service agencies gathered to identify potential solutions to problems that affect women’s lives. during this gathering, it was discovered that many women do not seek help for their addictions for fear they will lose their children and that there were far fewer rehabilitation programs for women than men. the consensus was that drug and al