Not as a category. Not as a case number. As a complete human being with a past, a present, and a future worth fighting for.
Walk into most shelters in America and you'll see the same pattern: one building serves one population. A domestic violence shelter here. A homeless shelter there. A recovery center across town. Each operating in its own silo, with its own intake process, its own eligibility requirements, its own waiting list.
But the people inside these buildings? Their lives don't sort that neatly. A mother fleeing domestic violence becomes homeless the moment she leaves. A person in recovery loses their housing and ends up on the street. A single mother battling addiction watches her children get placed in foster care while she waits for a bed in a program that doesn't allow kids.
The system was designed around categories. But people live at the intersections.
"With the right soil, anything can grow." Doreen Nuusolia, Founder
Doreen didn't start with a business plan. She started with a question that wouldn't leave her alone: Why does a woman have to choose between safety and keeping her children?
Growing up, Doreen watched families in her community get torn apart not by their own failures, but by a system that treated every crisis as a separate problem. She saw mothers who needed recovery support lose custody because the program didn't have room for children. She saw DV survivors return to their abusers because the shelter was full and the streets were worse.
These weren't statistics to Doreen. They were neighbors. Friends. Family. And the more she saw, the clearer the answer became: what was missing wasn't another program. It was a place that refused to separate people from the fullness of who they are.
That place is Bossplayah Haven.
A community where a mother fleeing violence doesn't become a homelessness statistic. Where someone in recovery doesn't lose their children to the system while they heal. Where the walls between "DV shelter" and "recovery program" and "transitional housing" disappear, because the people inside them were never that neatly divided to begin with.
Bossplayah Haven is being built in the greater Redmond, Washington area. It will be a comprehensive sanctuary that serves single mothers, survivors of domestic violence, people facing homelessness, and those in recovery — all under one roof, with whole-person care that addresses every dimension of healing.
We believe that when you give people the right soil, they don't just survive. They flourish.
Every dollar brings us closer to opening our doors. Every voice spreads the word. Every act of support says: these lives matter.
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