Stepping Stones News & Events
Stepping Stones’ Legacy Journal
Here at Stepping Stones we know that every one of the women who have changed their lives, did so against all odds and these brave women need the encouragement and support to continue with the daunting work ahead. We started asking the women who have been through our...
No Matter What Brought You to Our Doors…
Stepping Stones is the most amazing place. Women and children come here because there is nowhere else for them to go. No mom, sister, friend… anywhere. No one grows up saying, "I hope I can live in a shelter when I grow up.” But we are here for you 24/7/365 -...
A Letter From a Former Resident: There is Hope
“I don’t have near as much money as I had when I was with my husband. My kids and I are struggling financially. But waking up and going to bed each day in my own house without a drunk, verbally and physically abusive person in our lives anymore is worth the work of...
A Letter From a Former Resident: Only You Can Stop You
[This is a letter written by a former resident of our shelter for future women to inspire hope] Dearest Newcomer, Welcome to Stepping Stones. The moment you opened the front door here, you opened the door to your new life. You may feel nervous or unsure, but you are...
What 8,000+ Women Have Taught Us About Courage
Have you ever heard this or maybe you have even said this about women in an abusive situation, “Why doesn't she just leave?” What most people don’t realize is that’s like asking, “why don’t you jump off that 100-foot cliff?” What those of us who work on the front...
What You Say Matters
In the helping professions, what you do and say, how you choose to live your own life, how you treat others – even the tiniest of things matter! This is a letter from a woman who was in Stepping Stones' shelter, and we just got this letter from her after almost two...











