Our Guiding Star Centers
We currently have 7 Guiding Star Centers located in 6 states but we want 50! Your support will help make this vision a reality.
Located in West St. Paul Minnesota, Wakota has focused on addressing the needs of pregnant women and their children, since its founding in 1976—by two physicians and a group of local citizens. For more than four decades, they have promoted and provided positive alternatives to abortion, along with the support and assistance women need to successfully carry their pregnancies to term, care for their infants, and build healthy families. Guiding Star Wakota primarily serves women and their families who reside in northern Dakota County (West St. Paul, South St. Paul, Inver Grove Heights, Eagan, and Mendota Heights) and in St. Paul’s heavily Hispanic/Latino West Side located in Ramsey County. Approximately 25 percent of our clients live outside our traditional service area. In December 2021, Guiding Star Wakota completed a $3 million capital campaign and moved into its new 10,000-square-foot headquarters. The increase in space facilitated an expansion of services to include fertility awareness classes, support groups for parents, personal development services, 1:1 mentoring for fathers, and much more.
Located in Waterloo, Iowa, Guiding Star Cedar Valley is building a Culture of Life through supporting and educating women to understand, embrace, and love their natural bodies. Founded in 2016 their services continue to grow and flourish in the Cedar Valley and beyond. They strive to provide an alternative, comprehensive approach to women’s healthcare that honors the female mind, body, and spirit.
Guiding Star Siouxland was founded in Orange City, Iowa in 2016 under the name Guiding Star Orange City. Due to the rising needs of the entire community searching for natural, wholistic, and life-affirming healthcare, Guiding Star Siouxland rebranded to encompass the entire community they served and are located in Sioux Center, Iowa. Providing authentic women’s healthcare through fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, postpartum, and family life services, Guiding Star Siouxland is the first place that women can look to for support and education in understanding, embracing, and loving their natural bodies.
Guiding Star Southwest was originally founded as House of Hope, when a young woman named Angelica Rosales answered the call to open a pregnancy help center. Angie had always been passionate about helping women in crisis pregnancies, because her own mother, Rose, pregnant at the age of 42, had been told to terminate her pregnancy since she also had a serious heart condition. However, against all odds, Rose chose to fight for her daughter’s life. Knowing she owed her life to her mom’s courageous choice, Angie wanted to help others in similar situations. With the help of her sister Kathy, the Rosales and Santos family, and a group of passionate friends, the doors of House of Hope opened in 2002 and later became a medical facility in 2007.
In 2010, Nydia Correa became the new director of House of Hope and over the following six years, she became aware of the changing and growing gap within women and family health care in El Paso. There is little focus on basic proactive well-woman care, and existing family resources are often unknown, spread across the city, and difficult to access. Furthermore, House of Hope lacked strong name recognition and branding. In 2016, Nydia learned about the vision and mission of The Guiding Star Project and recognized it as the solution to meet these needs in El Paso, announcing our change to Guiding Star Southwest at our 2017 Gala to over 1,100 supporters.
This new vision included moving into a new, larger building in May 2018 and then sub-leasing office space to like-minded, life-affirming care providers to create a “one-stop supercenter” of wholistic, comprehensive well-woman and family care—all under one roof, in one convenient, professional, welcoming location—with a mission of working together to build a local culture of life. This flexible model will facilitate cooperation to provide support for natural means of family planning, fertility and infertility care, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, adoption, pregnancy loss, post-abortion care, marriage, and family life. We are exploring partnerships with care providers in areas such as obstetrics and gynecology, natural osteopathy, nutrition, doula and midwifery, lactation consulting, various holistic therapies, and community outreach.
Located in Marshalltown, Iowa, Guiding Star Marshalltown opened its doors in June 2020. They offer life-affirming care, support and educational resources for women and families. Services include Creighton Model Fertility Care, Cycle Show Workshops, Mother/Daughter and Father/Son classes, as well as support for Pregnancy, Childbirth, Breastfeeding, Mom/Baby Care, Parenting, Miscarriage/Infant Loss, Post-abortion, Marriage Enrichment and Baby/Family Photography.
In February 2022 Guiding Star Tampa became an affiliate of the Guiding Star Project. Our mission is to provide holistic women’s care and pregnancy and birthing services to the Tampa Bay area. Tammara (Tammy) Masut is one of the founding members of Guiding Star Tampa and currently serves as the Clinical Director and interim Executive Director.
Tammy has always been an advocate for women, especially those experiencing unexpected pregnancies. Her dream and mission in life is to provide quality wholistic healthcare for women no matter their socio/economic standing. This past year Tammy has delivered thirty-one babies, has provided well women exams to 298 uninsured women, and is currently helping three women through the abortion reversal Process. Guiding Star Tampa is aligned with the foundation of the national project and its purpose-driven mission.
Guiding Star Tampa only exists as a virtual (internet) location at present but we are close to our goal of establishing a permanent home for the Guiding Star Tampa center in the Tampa Bay Area.
Guiding Star Crosby was founded in June 2024. Located in the heart of downtown Crosby, Minnesota. This location also serves as the headquarters for Guiding Star Project’s National Office and currently offers classes from the national Guiding Star Curriculum, along with the accompanying support groups. Additional services will be available soon including Lactation Consultant visits with Leah A. Jacobson, Founder of Guiding Star Project, as well as natural fertility awareness methods.
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