Restoring Hope. Strengthening Families. Building Communities.

People come to V Marie’s Heart for different reasons.

You might be searching for help for yourself or your loved ones. Maybe you're interested in volunteering your time, sharing your expertise, or exploring ways to partner with our community. Alternatively, you could be looking to support our mission through a donation, sponsorship, or grant. Whatever your reason, we're here to help and appreciate your interest in getting involved. Whether you're looking to give back or get support, we're committed to making a positive impact in our community.

Decide what works best for you right now.

When someone is already managing a difficult situation, finding help can sometimes feel like another challenge.

Finding the right resources can be tough because they are often scattered across different organizations. It's not always clear who is eligible for what, and programs can change suddenly. This can leave families feeling confused and unsure about where to start or which organization is the best fit for them. They might feel overwhelmed and not know how to navigate the system to get the help they need.

V Marie’s Heart helps make those pathways easier to understand.

Our work recognizes that people’s needs are often connected.

Housing can affect mental wellness.

Caregiving can affect employment, finances, and family life.

Education can influence workforce opportunity and long-term stability.

Mental wellness can affect nearly every part of daily life.

Professional development can strengthen the quality of support available throughout a community.

These needs may seem different, but in reality, they are usually linked to each other in some way.

V Marie’s Heart was created to help bring people, resources, education, professionals, volunteers, funders, and community partners together so individuals and families have more opportunities to move forward.

We can't be everything to everyone; that's just not our goal.

Our goal is to help people connect with practical support, useful information, meaningful opportunities, and trusted community relationships.

Depending on the program or initiative, our work may include:

V Marie’s Heart is growing, and our programs may be at different stages of development.

We believe people should be able to tell the difference between what is available now and what we are still working to build.

V Marie's Heart helps people who may have different problems, but they all want the same things: to be stable, healthy, and have opportunities. They want to feel connected and have a better idea of what's ahead.

Our work may serve different groups depending on what programs are currently available.

Five Areas of Service. One Commitment to Stronger Communities.

V Marie’s Heart organizes its work around five connected pillars.

Each part of the plan focuses on a different thing that the community needs, and they all work together to help people, families, and communities become stronger.

Community & Family Support

Helping People Find Resources, Support, and Connection

Families and caregivers often carry several responsibilities at once.

Our Community & Family Support work is designed to help people understand available resources, connect with community support, and identify practical next steps.

Depending on current program availability, this may include caregiver support, family resources, community navigation, referrals, outreach, assistance programs, and volunteer-led initiatives. 

Housing Stability & Community Development

Supporting More Stable Homes and Stronger Neighborhoods

Housing affects much more than where someone lives.

It can influence wellness, employment, education, safety, family life, transportation, and a person’s ability to plan for the future.

Our housing and community-development work may include education, resource navigation, homeownership preparation, independent-living initiatives, affordable-housing partnerships, and neighborhood-development projects.

Mental Wellness

Connecting Education, Awareness, and Community Support

Mental wellness affects how people live, learn, work, care for others, and participate in their communities.

V Marie’s Heart supports mental wellness through education, awareness, prevention information, resource navigation, referrals, workshops, advocacy, and community collaboration.

Community education and referral services are not presented as a substitute for licensed medical or behavioral-health care.

Education & Workforce Development

Helping People Prepare for What Comes Next

Learning, practical skills, mentorship, financial knowledge, leadership, and workforce preparation can create meaningful opportunities.

Our education and workforce initiatives may include mentoring, financial literacy, educational enrichment, leadership development, workforce readiness, and scholarships when funding is available.

Behavioral Health Professional Development

Supporting the Professionals Who Support Our Communities

Strong communities also depend on informed, ethical, skilled, and connected professionals.

V Marie’s Heart supports behavioral health professionals through professional education, networking, collaboration, leadership development, student support, and approved training opportunities when available.

People’s Lives Are Connected

A person’s needs rarely exist in isolation.

The five-pillar model allows V Marie’s Heart to recognize those connections while creating clear areas of service.

It helps us look beyond one immediate challenge and consider the broader support that may help a person, family, professional, or community move toward greater stability.

V Marie's Heart was started by Artica Jenkins to remember her mom, Vonderia Marie Jenkins.

Vonderia was known for her compassion, humanitarian spirit, and commitment to helping children, families, and underserved individuals.

Her example helped shape Artica’s understanding of service, advocacy, mental wellness, and community responsibility.

When Vonderia died in2016 from heart problems at just 53 years old, the things she believed in and lived by kept on inspiring others to work towards a bigger goal.

Today, V Marie's Heart is keeping that legacy alive by turning compassion into real support, education, and connections that bring people together and inspire community action, creating opportunities for everyone.

V Marie’s Heart welcomes collaboration with:

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V Marie’s Heart continues to grow through programs, partnerships, education, funding, and community involvement.

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