MMP's Hayman House Residential Program (named for Rev. Ann Hayman) is our oldest and original program. Hayman House is the longest of the treatment programs, and varies in duration from 6 months - 2 years to complete. Hayman House residence is a private, 4-bedroom group home in a residential community in which the women live while progressing through five developmental stages at their own pace:

• Phase One: Assessment and Treatment Protocols, Stabilization
  Women are assessed for health status, IQ, psychodiagnostic profile, legal status, life skills, social skills, and education. Psychotherapists are assigned and support groups selected. Client, Case Manager and Program Director develop an overall treatment plan. Generally 2-3 months in duration
• Phase Two: Insight and Coping Skills
  Probation terminates, school and part time work may commence, bibliotherapy, journaling and psychotherapy, family history, substance abuse education, issues of body image, self-esteem, personal presentation, assertiveness training, coping skills addressed.
• Phase Three: Community Awareness / Consciousness Raising
  Public service volunteer assignments, study of chosen political or social cause, development of cultural interests, field trips, school and/or job.
• Phase Four: Healthy Intimacy Skills
  Relationship study, practice, bibliotherapy, psychotherapy, group therapy, outside relationships are allowed, increase in independence. Family reunification opportunities assessed, parenting classes.
• Phase Five: Practical Aspects of Re-entry, Graduation ceremony
  Role-play conflict resolution, identifying fears and coping strengths, life management skills, assertiveness training, practicing delayed gratification, job interview skills, household management, family therapy, parenting courses, advancement in family reunification program.

The Mary Magdalene Project Drop In Center (DIC) is MMP's newest intervention program, opened in June of 2009. Based upon a Harm Reduction Social Services Model, the DIC emulates a similar program based in San Francisco known as SAGE, Standing Against Global Exploitation.

The Harm Reduction Social Services Model is an innovative system that recognizes the overwhelming difficulties involved in making extremely difficult behavioral changes. Exiting prostitution, because it is both commonly reflective of severe abuse in childhood as well as an extreme and ongoing financial dependence for survival, is very difficult to exit. Recognizing the challenges to an overnight, immediate escape is the insight behind the creation of the Drop In Center. It recognizes that for many people incremental, smaller steps towards a longer term goal are necessary to be successful.

The MMP Drop In Center will distribute condoms, arrange HIV testing and prevention counseling, provides support groups, safe respite space, food, clothing, case management, group support, prostitution recovery groups and individual therapy at no charge to working prostitutes.

Located within walking distance from the "Sepulveda Track" (the areas of San Fernando Valley in which streetwalking prostitutes most frequently patronize while soliciting for clientele), appointments are recommended but not required between 1 and 4 pm daily and Tuesday from 1-7pm.

Transitional Living Program (TLP) is a program for women and families needing additional support to avoid relapse into prostitution lifestyles. An individually designed intervention system providing up to 18 months of services, these may include subsidized housing, medical & dental care, childcare, food, clothing, parenting, life skills, family & individual therapy, job training, and case management.

The Transitional Living Program is available to both graduates of MMP's Hayman House and former prostitutes referred to us from other social service programs.

Family Reunification Program: For over ten years MMP has been committed to prevention efforts by rebuilding broken families and stopping the cycle of prostitution across generations. MMP utilizes its services to assist women who have lost rights to their children (usually to foster care) in providing them homes, parenting courses, individual and family therapy, childcare and related social services that allow them to win back the chance to be a parent, and then to assist them in providing a healthy family setting in which the child can grow to adulthood.

MMP is very proud at the number of women who have reunified with their daughters and sons and raised them with the supportive interventions of the MMP Family Reunification Program.

The MMP Crisis Intervention and Emergency Support Services Program is another safety net structure to protect unforeseen crises from undoing the progress and success women and families have achieved in leaving, and never returning, to prostitution lifestyles. This program is open only to women and families previously enrolled in MMP programs.

Examples of Crisis Intervention and Emergency Support Services include MMP's response to any threat to a family or individual woman's stability. In the past this has included:

• Assisting a graduate who was employed and doing well, but whose automobile transmission needed replacing so she could continue to get to work and keep her job. MMP provided the necessary funding.
• Assisting a woman and her children in relocation expenses when her former pimp was released from prison and she and her children were endangered by his awareness of her location.
• Crisis intervention psychotherapy when a program graduate lost her adolescent child to a gang-related shooting death.