Facts About Casa Teresa

• Tax ID #95-3251986
• Program Incorporated in 1976
• Non-Denominational Organization Serving Orange County and Beyond
• At Full Capacity, Casa Teresa Houses
  • 33 Women and 18 Babies:  
  • 15 Women and 4 Infants in the Parenting Building;
  • 12 Single Mothers and 12 Babies in the Transition Buildings (I and II);
  • 6 Women in the Adoption Program “Hannah’s House”
• Serving Approximately 63 Women and Their Babies Each Year
• 16 Staff Members Support the Casa Teresa Mission
• Two Fundraising Guilds and Over 200 Volunteers
• Volunteer Board of Directors Members:
  • Keith Eyrich, President
  • Frank Chavez, Secretary
  • Rich Holmen, Immediate Past President
  • Timothy Blied
  • Lissa Callaghan
  • Rosemary Egkan
  • Bob Gau
  • Peggy Guziak 
  • Phil Kunisch    
  • Patricia Manzo            
  • Patricia Morabito                     
  • Jim Normandin
  • Bill Pickel                    
  • Don Redfern                            
  • Barbara Roppolo
  • Neill and Sally Sullivan, Emeriti
  • Rick Taketa
  • William T. Teachout
  • Robert Wilson

Financially Supported Through Community and City Donors, Corporate and Foundation Grants, Fundraising Events, In-Kind Donations and Designated Contributions Through the United Way of Orange County

Program Overview

Founded in 1976, Casa Teresa provides a transformational, comprehensive program for homeless, pregnant women age 18 and older who are alone.  Located in Orange, California, Casa Teresa is home to more than 60 mothers and their babies each year.  Additionally, referrals or one-time counseling is provided to over four hundred women annually. 

Casa Teresa offers three separate residential programs: The Parenting Program, the Adoption Program “Hannah’s House”, and the Transition Program for Single Mothers.  Casa Teresa is open to all homeless, pregnant women in need regardless of religion, nationality, race, background, or any other factor.

Casa Teresa offers a safe and sober living environment, perinatal healthcare, individual and group counseling, case management and life-skills education.  Our residents receive the tools needed to earn a living wage and become self-sufficient.  Residents are provided with computer training, job skill assessments and career development classes.  Equally important to their success, they find a healthy sense of self-worth and dignity.  This goal-oriented program allows women to break free from a generational cycle of homelessness, addiction, abuse and poverty.

Program Description 

Casa Teresa provides an array of services, counseling and educational programs that prepare these women to make loving and informed life decisions for themselves and their babies.

Casa Teresa provides low cost housing within the budget of each woman’s income from either a job or government assistance.  Residents are required to enroll in school or find employment.  No woman is turned away for lack of funds and residents who have no income and are ineligible for government assistance are provided a home and services by Casa Teresa through grant funding and private donations.

Last year, Casa Teresa was home to 74 women, and celebrated the birth of 75 healthy babies!  15 of these babies were placed with adoptive parents.  More than 2,200 pregnant women have made their home with us during the past 30 years.