NAPW engages in legal advocacy that challenges efforts to criminalize pregnancy and motherhood, establish fetal rights under the law, and expand the war on drugs to women's wombs. NAPW provides litigation support in both civil and criminal cases across the country, particularly for public defenders and other local lawyers faced with cases that raise legal and medical issues with which they may be unfamiliar.

Project PROTECT is a gender specific program for pre-trial women at the Maui Community Correctional Center under the BEST (Being Empowered and Safe Together) Reintegration Program. The women are provided with case management services, classes and other transitional services tailored to their needs while they are in pre-trial status.

Matrix Human Services is one of the oldest and largest non-profit social service organizations in Michigan, having operated since 1906. Matrix is devoted to improving the quality of life for people of all ages. The focus of Matrix is to empower families and individuals by delivering a broad range of specialized services, designed to support the entire family unit. Matrix programs are all geared toward a specific demographic of those in need.

Mary Hall Freedom House provides a wide variety of services for women and women with children in order to improve their quality of life by empowering them to break the cycle of addiction, poverty and homelessness. Their treatment services include residential, day, and intensive outpatient treatment as well as mental health services. The Work NOW (Needed Opportunities for Women) Program is designed to eliminate barriers to employment for women by providing fundamental training and addressing employment requirements.

Marian House provides temporary housing to women returning from prison. Our basic program offers residential services for a period of 6 to 12 months. For the first four months, each resident focuses on her personal goals and development. She receives intensive counseling and follows a structured program that includes curfews, regular drug testing, and commitment to a savings plan. Encouraged by staff members, she renews positive relationships and begins to establish a new support system.

Once ready for independent living, some Marian House women move to a permanent housing placement, either in the scattered-site Shelter Plus Care program or in Serenity Place. Marian House permanent housing placements include case management and access to support services such as educational and employment assistance as needed. Rental assistance is provided to ensure that rent payments are not more then 30 percent of the families’ annual income.

Helping Women Recover is a gender-responsive 12 step program developed by Stephanie Covington who is a pioneer in the development and implementation of gender-responsive services. The curriculum is designed to address the issues underlying female criminality and addiction, incorporating women’s psycho-social development and experiences into their treatment. Small class size allows for women to bond as they discuss personal experiences based on the program’s four modules: the self, relationships, sexuality and spirituality.

The Anger Management class uses an anger workbook created by Laura Petracek, who is a national expert on gender-responsive anger management treatment. The program recognizes that women’s anger manifests itself in a way that is different from men, and that their style of dealing with anger is more internal. The arts are used to allow women to express themselves through music therapy, poetry and the creation of collages. Women are taught to uncover the blocks to expressing anger as well as the youthful development of the ways they were taught to express anger.

Hillsborough House of Hope, working through volunteers and partnering agencies, offers women leaving the prison system a temporary residence where they will receive job placement and training assistance, Bible study, and classes in nutrition, self esteem, women's health issues, parenting, budgeting, anger management, creative learning. The women are set up with county health insurance and are placed in outpatient drug treatment programs. Hillsborough House of Hope provides both temporary shelter and permanent housing.

This residential program offers specialized care to the underserved female population of San Francisco, including low-income African American and Latina women and their families/children, with a special focus on pregnant and parenting women with co-occurring substance use and psychiatric disorders.