This Isn’t Just A Nonprofit. It’s A Lifeline.
A Mom’s Guide to Survive (AMGTS) is a system focused on access and stability, stepping in before moms are pushed past the point of no return. It’s shaped by lived experience and intentionally built using a structured, donation-based, and community-supported system that protects stability and increases access to support.
While many moms we support are parenting alone, AMGTS exists to meet moms in hard places, including those navigating unsafe, unstable, or transitional situations.
Our Vision
When moms don’t have support, everything gets harder. Stress piles up. Choices narrow. Survival takes over.
When moms have access to stability, everything changes. They can breathe. They can think. They can make decisions that move them forward instead of just getting through the day.
This is the gap moms are expected to cross alone.
Poverty Is The Starting Point
A significant percentage of families led by moms in hard places live below the poverty line. This is not because of neglect or lack of effort, but because wages, childcare, housing, and healthcare are not designed to work together. Source
Neglect Is Often About Poverty
Most child removals labeled as neglect are tied to unmet basic needs like housing, childcare, or access to support. Poverty gets reframed as failure, and families pay the price. Source
The Path Out Is Nearly Inaccessible
Education is often presented as the way out. In reality, very few moms in hard places can complete a degree while juggling work, caregiving, and survival without structural support. Source
It Takes A Village
Says Everyone
The Story Behind This Work
Before A Mom’s Guide to Survive existed, there was lived experience navigating motherhood, adversity, and systems that often punish instability instead of preventing it.
In this episode of the Her Audacity Podcast, our founder shares the context that made this work necessary and the principles that continue to guide AMGTS today.
Listen on Spotify.