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Welcome to SingleMom.com
Thanks for visiting us. We are a private, non government website
which focuses on collecting as much information resources as possible (FREE) for single moms
and visitors like you. Much of our information is based on
submissions and research from contributors, volunteers and visitors like
you.
If you have more questions about our organization, please
contact us.
SingleMom.com extends its gratitude to
corporations, foundations, government agencies
and individuals for their dedicated support to
the economic empowerment of women. Thank
you from SingleMom.com as we celebrate our 8th
year of assisting aspiring and amazing single
mothers.
A Note from our
Executive
I have never been more honored or proud to be part of the SingleMom.com
organization. I hope each of you know how your dedication and efforts are making
a real difference in our community. On behalf of SingleMom.com - THANK YOU!
Who We Are
SingleMom.com was formed to
specifically assist single mothers. We feel deeply that single mothers need and
deserve additional support, resources and tools specific to their unique role as
a single mother.
SingleMom.com is a valuable
internet resource tool to help single mothers educate themselves of what it
takes as a single mother to navigate through daily life; assisting them with
their basic and more challenging needs. We have more than 1,000 Web pages of
useful resources. Topics of interest include: “Ask Joy”, Parenting, Child
Support, Career Development, Health and Well Being, Finance and Housing,
and Government Grants available. Our SingleMom.com forum is another resource for single mothers to connect to other
single mothers, giving each other support or validation of their issues and just
letting each other know that they are not alone!
SingleMom.com offers all of its
website resources and support without a membership or monthly fee for access.
We are the number one comprehensive Website that truly serves single mothers and
their families. The objective of SingleMom.com is to provide a comfortable,
stable, supportive information environment focused on single mothers and issues
that affect them and their children; to help them through this transition in
their lives, providing them with guidance, emotional support and ultimately a
means for them to become self sufficient and reliant for the benefit of
themselves and their children.
SingleMom.com is already the
largest organization and most comprehensive Website serving single mothers on
the Internet nationwide. With almost 6 years of volunteer experience helping
other nonprofit organizations, plus experience with Website development, and our
Internet Community, we have a comprehensive understanding of the needs of our
unique visitors, single mothers; the challenges they face, and the strength they
possess.
Whether a mother has become a
“Single Mom” by circumstance or by choice, SingleMom.com would like to be the
website of choice to support the millions of single mothers who are driven to
change their life for the better and wish to provide a healthy happy home for
their children.
What We Do
SingleMom.com will be driven to
improve and provide to our members the kind of site that single moms want and
need. We will listen to the Single Moms and provide them with information by
way of guidance, resources (i.e., self-help, education, financial, grants,
career, health), research and direct feedback from our dedicated volunteer
staff.
Our intention with the variety of
specialty programs is to enable single mothers to gain financial stability,
life-long skills, work related skills, personal skills (like budgeting),
parenting, emotional and community support essential to raising healthy, happy
children, and to live day to day in a positive lifestyle.
Below we explain a number of programs which are designed to provide
information on subsidized child care, medical, dental and mental health
care, advice on money management, parenting and nutrition, affordable
transportation and health insurance as well as referrals to legal aid
for those who might need it.
A Virtual Place –
Join us in our NEW
Singlemom.com Community. It offers a virtual place for single mothers to meet online, leverage
each other’s experiences, gain practical advice and build friendships
and contacts. It is a place where they can express themselves and
make their voice heard. A place where they can meet other mothers
that have been through similar experiences and are willing to talk about
it. A Virtual Place empowers those in abusive situations.
“Suddenly Single Moms” can escape knowing there’s other mothers
out-there who are willing to share their experiences and can help with
emotional support.
Support Groups – We
offer a community forum where moms from all over the country and chat
and discuss topics that are important to them. There are virtual
support groups that are starting up for different metropolitan areas of
the country. If you don't see a group in your area, ask our community
Support Team to set a group section up for you.
Classified Service –
We offer FREE classified service on our Website so that SingleMom.com
readers can donate merchandise online such as clothes, toys, etc.
Single moms can sign up for that via our Website to receive it.
Freebies – We offer
freebies to single moms monthly provided by our Sponsor with giveaways
of things
that matter to single moms on a daily basis. Such as coupons,
books, DVDs, toys and other consumer products. Single moms
can sign up for those promotions on our website as they happen.
Our Newsletter
- Periodically, Singlemom.com sends out a Newsletter to single moms who
have signed up. Our Newsletters offer a wide range of resources
and information regarding tips on
parenting, legal, career, health, dating, once and again, handling
ex-family & ex, pregnancy, childbirth, adoption, establishing paternity,
custody, visitation, spiritual advice and more. Whether you're widowed, divorced or an unmarried mom by choice or chance,
or was raised by a single mom, SingleMom.com™
can be your lifeline of support. Join today and start
receiving SingleMom.com™
newsletter
either for yourself or as a gift for that special person. Don't struggle
alone. Maximize your potential as a single parent by joining the SingleMom.com™
extended family today. (sign up below) SingleMom.com
Contributors and Volunteers 
Elizabeth Pantley
Author/Writer/Consultant
 Parenting
educator Elizabeth Pantley is president of Better Beginnings, Inc., a family
resource and education company. Elizabeth frequently speaks to parents in
schools, hospitals, and parent groups, and her presentations are received with
enthusiasm and praise.
She is a regular radio show guest and
frequently quoted as a parenting expert in magazines such as
Parents, Parenting, Woman's Day, Good Housekeeping, McCalls,
and Redbook and on more than 80 parent-directed Websites.
She publishes a newsletter, Parent Tips ,
that is distributed in schools nationwide, and she is the author of
these parenting books (available in 18
languages):
She and
her husband, Robert, live in the state of Washington with their four children
and assorted family pets. She is an involved participant in her children's
school and sports activities and has served in positions as varied as softball
coach and PTA president.
Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD
-
Genesis Consultants, Inc.
Dr.
Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD, MSW, CCH, CRT, noted author of
If I’d Only Known…Sexual Abuse in or out of the Family: A
 Guide to
Prevention, speaker and seminar leader has over twenty years experience
specializing in parenting, life and career issues. She is noted for her
pioneering work in Emotional, Physical and Sexual Abuse Prevention and
Recovery.
She is a regularly
featured East Valley Living contributor and her articles can be found under Health
& Features,
www.evliving.com.
She has
over twenty years as a professional speaker on personal growth. Her
down-to-earth, practical and easy to implement techniques are enthusiastically
received by many clubs, organizations and companies.
Having
raised two children as a single parent and grandparent to four
grandchildren, Dr. Neddermeyer not only is the quintessential parenting
expert, she has made it an art form and her career.
Professional Accomplishments:
- Diplomate in Professional Psychotherapy from the International
Academy of Behavioral Medicine, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Inc.
- Diplomate in Clinical Ericksonian Neo-Linguistic Hypnotherapy from
the National Board of Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists
- Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist (CCH)
- Certified Regression Therapist (CRT)
- Certificate of Past Life Training with Brian Weiss, MD
- Board Member—International Association for Regression Research and
Therapies, Inc.
www.iarrt.org
Please visit her website at:
www.gen-assist.com.
Michele Howe
Author/Writer
 Michele
Howe is a book reviewer for Publishers Weekly, FaithfulReader.com, Aspiring Retail and has published
over 900 articles/reviews. She works as a manuscript critique editor for the
Christian Communicator and writes on women's health issues for the Toledo
Free Press, CatholicMom.com, Radiant, Monore Journal, CBN.com, Radiant, Godly Businesswoman, Women of
Faith, and Esprit.
Howe has also published eight books for women
including:
Going It Alone: Meeting the Challenges of Being a Single Mom,
Prayers for Homeschool Moms,
Prayers for New and Expecting Moms,
Prayers of Comfort and Strength,
Prayers to Nourish a Woman's Heart,
Successful Single Moms, and
Pilgrim Prayers for Single Mothers.
Michele
Howe
734.242.5250
jhowe@toast.net
Kelly Nault, MA
Author/Speaker/Counselor
 Kelly Nault, MA - Award winning author of When You’re About To Go Off The Deep End, Don’t
Take Your Kids With You inspires moms to put themselves first—for the sake
of their children. She shares time-tested tools that motivate children to want
to be well behaved, responsible and happy!
She is the founder of Ultimate Parent, a company that provides parenting
resources such as the "Mommy Moments" free online parenting course.
Kelly’s counciling and effective communication strategies
have helped thousands of families to bring out their best. As a popular and
entertaining media guest across North America, she is regarded for such
articles as "Psst! Children Secretly Like Chores" and regularly facilitates
workshops for parents, corporate audiences, and colleges.
After receiving her
Master’s in Counseling Psychology, Kelly completed a pre-doctoral
internship and became the "go-to person" for emotionally, and mentally
challenged children that other professionals have given up on. Early in
her career, Kelly co-parented two violent, blind brothers for whom the
community had lost hope. It was in this long-term position that she
tested and disseminated the advice of leading parenting experts into her
own brand of practical and effective Ultimate Parent tactics that work
for common family struggles. Kelly’s approach to parenting is
time-tested, child-proofed and effective in decreasing conflict in the ability for each family member to reach and fulfill
their maximum potential.
Kelly's writing style is certain to grab the attention of your readers!
She has been called, "The Dr. Phil of Parenting" who busts
parenting myths like a pro and will surprise and peak the interest of
parenting readers! She provides you and your readers with MONTHLY
PARENTING ARTICLES that provide EASY TIPS that make your
readers' family life MORE FUN with LESS STRESS!
Please visit her Website at
www.MommyMoments.com
and
www.KellyNault.com.
Darcey Blain
Author/Writer/Editor
 Darcey
Blain resides in Rockford, Michigan with her son, Max, and various pets.
Her mother instilled her with an intense love of words and reading. She
began writing short stories and poems in elementary school, but later
turned to the more practical administrative field as she also enjoyed
good food and a roof over her head. She eventually found her way back to
the writing field by accepting the position of managing editor for North
Star Writers Group. Editing and clarifying the work of others is
definitely her strong suit, but she couldn’t hide her desire to create
and write any longer.
Her favorite
sweatshirt reads “That’s Ms. Liberal, vegetarian, tree-hugging, hippie
freak to you, buddy”. That pretty much tells you everything you’d want
to know.
Darcey Blain
616.291.1156
P.O. Box 2413
Grand Rapids, MI 49501
Email:
darcey@northstarwriters.com
www.northstarwriters.com/darceyblain.htm
About North Star Writers
Group:
North Star Writers Group is a Grand Rapids, Michigan-based syndicate,
providing newspaper columns, customized magazine articles and contract
editing services to publishers throughout North America. Our writers are
selected for their fresh, engaging perspective on real issues -
political, family, social, economic, moral and many others.
North Star Writers Group distributes 16
weekly newspaper columnists to op-ed, business and feature pages, who
can purchase our material on a piece-by-piece basis, weekly or through
our monthly Total Access subscription.
North Star Writers Group
also has writers available to produce freelance magazine articles on a
wide variety of topics. We can take assignments directly from editors,
submit ideas via queries or submit completed articles for your
consideration. North Star always researches the publications to which we
submit material, so we are familiar with what you need. Our
magazine freelancers work for your established freelance rates, and all
our work is professionally style- and copy-edited by two full-time,
professional editors before it is submitted to magazine editors.
Valarie
Davis
Author/Speaker/Real Estate Entrepreneur
- Founder
of
Venterprises Realty Group
 Valarie
Eiland Davis is President of Venterprises Realty Group. In
addition to her 15 years of experience as an entrepreneur and 12
years in the real estate industry, her educational accomplishments
include a Bachelor of Science e degree in Finance from Boston
University, an M.B.A. in Marketing from The University of Michigan,
and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.
Valarie is a
published author, professional speaker and workshop facilitator, and
is currently developing plans to launch the Venterprises
Foundation. She is a Certified Coach for the Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority, Inc. national homeownership initiative, and is a Workforce
Certified real estate agent for the State of Maryland. Valarie is
also a single mother of one adorable daughter, Lena Renea.
Valarie will be
writing monthly on hot homeownership topics, and taking questions
from our readers via e-mail. Some of the Q&As will be included in
the monthly columns.
email:
Valarie.Davis@Remax.net 
Rachel
Sarah
Author/Speaker/Coach
-
Author
of Single Mom Seeking: Playdates, Blind Dates, and Other Dispatches from the Dating World , out in November 2006 (Avalon/Seal Press).
 Single
Mom Seeking is about Rachel's ongoing search for The One as she remains
a dedicated and involved mom. Its a spunky, sexy, and moving
chronicle of the humor, pitfalls, and rewards of balancing the
complexities of parenting and dating -- sing-mom style.
"Rachel Sarah
offers a sexy, edgy, honest expose of single parenthood," says Susan
Shapiro, author of "Lighting Up" and "Five Men Who Broke My Heart".
Rachel is the romance columnist for the San Francisco's
The
Jewish News Weekly. Her Column on single motherhood and dating, "Single Mom
Speaking", appears on
Literary Mama.
Her writings have
also appeared in Family Circle, Parenting, Tango, Ms., BabyCenter
and Christian Science Monitor. Rachel lives in the
San Francisco Bay Area with her six-year-old daughter, where she also
coaches singles to find the love of their lives.
Please
visit her website at
www.SingleMomSeeking.com.
Rachel would love to hear about your single mom
dating experiences! She can be reached at
Email:
Rachel@singlemomseeking.com
Amy Allen Clark
Author - Creator of MomAdvice.com
 She
is a stay-at-home
mother of a three year old son and is expecting their second child in December. She is founder
and creator of
www.MomAdvice.com. Her website is geared towards mothers who are seeking
advice on staying organized, living on a budget, and for those seeking
work-at-home employment.
MomAdvice.com creator, Amy
Allen Clark, was searching for information on the internet on topics such as
these, but could not find a site out there that catered to everything that she
was looking for. Amy decided to pool her talents with her web designer husband
and create a site that offered this information for mothers and also create a
safe web community where mothers could chat. With this vision and her husband’s
knack for design, MomAdvice was born.
The author resides in Granger, Indiana and her hobbies
include reading, writing, cooking and cake decorating. Please visit her web site
for more information on these various topics for mothers and be sure to join the
forum where your opinions and ideas count. Please visit her web site for more
information on these various topics for mothers.
Kelly Kennedy
Writer/Co-Founder
www.SingleMotherResources.com
 Kelly Kennedy is the Communications Specialist for MindComet
Corporation, a full service marketing agency for Fortune 500 companies
and international conglomerates. Kelly specializes in public relations
strategies focused on single mother's financial guidance. Kelly has been
author to hundreds of articles focusing on single mother financial
concerns. She also acts as a contributing author for a wide variety of
websites and newsletters. Kelly holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing
from the University of Central Florida.
Jennifer Snyder, M.A.
Personal Coach & Motivational Speaker
 She
is a personal coach and workshop leader for divorced women who cannot wait to
proclaim their own power. She's been written countless of articles and given
speech nationwide. Her professional life began as a classroom
teacher and school administrator. It was a rewarding career and helped her
discover my true passion working with groups and empowering individuals.
"I have experienced years as a single mother and as a married
woman. I once allowed others to determine my fate until transforming my
life and recognizing that I had always possessed the power!" Said
Snyder.
Please
visit her Website
at
www.TimeOfYourLifeAfterDivorce.com and
www.SelfCareForWomen.net.
She can be reached at; 919.414.7197
E
mail:
Time-of-Your-Life@nc.rr.com
Devlyn Steele
Writer/Life
Coach
 As a Life-Coach Devlyn has made helping people find
ways to improve their lives his personal mission and passion. He is a public
consultant, a private counselor, an author and creator of Tools To Life. He has
hosted his own radio shows called “Tools To Life” and “Love beat” and has been a
guest on over 150 various shows. You can read his articles and advice all over
the Internet. Devlyn has often been referred to as “America's Leading
Life-Coach.”
Devlyn's Mission:
There is something I want you to know. I 100% believe in your ability to
create the life you want. In order to get new results, you have to have the
desire, be willing to take action and have a roadmap to get where you want.
What I have set out to do is provide for you if you have the desire and are
willing to take action a roadmap that is easy fun and will get you the
results you want.
About Tools To Life
Developed by Life Coach Devlyn Steele, Tools To Life is a revolution in
self- development, a 77-day program in which thousands have implemented
successful changes in their lives. Devlyn Steele is a public consultant, a
private counselor, a radio host and an author. He has hosted his own radio show,
"Tools To Life" and has been a guest on over 150 various shows. For more
information, visit:
www.lifecoachadvice.com.
Rita
A. Knight
Author/Motivational
Speaker -
Author of "The Anything is Possible Guide for Single Moms"
 Family Service Coordinator for the Countee Cullen Community Center of the
Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families in Harlem. She is a 2000 recipient of
the CHarles H. Revson Fellowship at Columbia University. A graduate of Alabama
State University, Rita lives in Harlem with her son Justin and is a member of
The New Frontier Baptist Church in Brooklyn.
Her experiences at HRA increased her awareness of the necessity for programs
that could offer assistance, job training, and support to poor people and
families while empowering them and their communities in the struggle against
poverty. Ms. Knight came to Rheedlen in 1995 as a case manager in family
counseling and dropout prevention. Recognition of her work let to her promotion
to Family Service Coordinator in her third year at Rheedlen.
Ms. Knight develops and implements a variety of empowerment projects within the
community, including programs in adult literacy, GED programs, adult computer
training, male motivation workshops, educational workshops for parents, a parent
newsletter, and family social activities. As a Revson Fellow, Ms. Knight
intends to enhance her understanding of urban social and education issues with
the intention of preparing a parent empowerment proposal for urban areas.
Cecily
Harrison
Writer/Photographer
 She is a single mother and writer/photographer living in Los Angeles with
her toddler daughter, Arabella. She loves being a mother and treasures the
friendship and exchange of information from other mothers, single or
otherwise.
"...thirty-six hours, two birthing rooms, two nurse shift
changes, and two anesthesiologists later. The doctors and nurses—everyone—has
been reading my birth plan and keeping up. “Pink, perfect, healthy, beautiful,”
says the neonatologist, and I look into my daughter’s eyes. Nothing can prepare
you. A lifetime of waiting, satisfied in a moment. Every heightened sense,
beauty, brilliant idea or prose, it’s all there, as Arabella stares back at me,
her eyes pinched as if to say, “What kept you.” In her story
Implant - the experienced of
being a single mom by choice.
She can be reach at: 323.461.3562
5164 Clinton Street
Los Angeles, CA 90004
Christiane Holbrook, M.A.
Personal Coach/Creator of
CreateSuccessFromWithin.com
 Personal Success Coach for
Inspired and Entrepreneurial Moms
- the definite coaching site for
entrepreneurial moms who seek to create
successful as well as meaningful businesses. She currently resides in
Los Angeles, CA.
"Being a business coach who cherishes life has become my calling. And I
put all of my energy and wisdom into being the best I can be. Today I see myself
as a professional who has the good of her family as well as her business needs
in mind. Living from values and passions deep within myself takes courage, but
at last, I feel that I am living the life that I was called to live."
said Holbrook.
Please visit her Website at:
www.legacyinaction.com
- a business coaching company, they are focusing
on helping overwhelmed small business owners and their teams
to re-kindle their passion for their work and create a passionate and
profitable business.
Legacy in Action Business
Coaching
www.legacyinaction.com
1609 North Holliston
Pasadena, CA 91104
(626) 296–8347
Amanda Bach
Co-Founder and Co-Creator of SingleMom.com.
 She currently resides
in California. She was raised by a single mom, experiencing first hand how difficult it was to watch her mom struggle with everyday life. For this
reason she was driven to create as co-founder SingleMom.com. Her energy,
natural creative ability and superior business intuition make her
contributions to this Website immeasurable.
Prior
to SingleMom.com, she was also served as board member of the Silicon Valley Charity
Ball, an organization which helps to improve the quality of life in the Bay
Area community by bringing together business and nonprofits through
fundraising efforts to support organizations that serve families with
children, youth, and senior citizens in Northern California.
She's been successfully assisting Community Impact in fundraising and toy
drives since 1999. She's also been involved and volunteered with many
nonprofit organizations such as Hands On Bay Area, CA; "Breaking Bread for
Urban Ministry" of Palo Alto, CA; US Pan Asian American Chamber of
Commerce in Washington, DC; the National Congress of Vietnamese Americans in
Washington, DC, and InVision Organization in Silicon Valley.
Jason Garcia
Author, Speaker, Consultant - author of
The Motivated
Mind
 Jason Gracia is the founder and CEO of Gracia Enterprises, a company whose
mission is to provide individuals and organizations with the tools and resources
necessary to create powerful and lasting change. With an innovative and exciting
approach to personal and professional success, Gracia Enterprises has helped
thousands of people throughout the world achieve extraordinary results and
completely transform their lives. Jason Gracia shares his methods through his
weekly publication read by thousands in over thirty countries, personal and
organizational consulting, and workshops and seminars held throughout the United
States. He currently resides in Madison, Wisconsin, where he operates Gracia
Enterprises.
Please visit
www.Motivation123.com
Email:
Motivation123@aol.com
1202 McKenna Boulevard
Suite 208
Madison, WI 53719
The
People Behind
SingleMom.com
We're a small group of people who are single moms, were raised by single
moms, and children lovers who want to make a difference in this world. We
created SingleMom.com primarily for the purpose of providing single moms
information, resources and a place to make your voice heard.
We began our website in the year 2000 with a group of women who were drawn
to the idea by word of mouth. Our group was a mixture of single, married
and divorced women. It was our goal to make SingleMom.com the place to go
online for women who are looking for information and resources that relate
to, and enhance our everyday lives. Whether married, single or divorced, we
wanted SingleMom.com to have the answers and information women with children
are looking for. We had hoped our visitors would provide us with feedback
related to their topics of interest….well, here we are today! Now in our
seventh year, we are one of the top single mom websites on the internet, with
many contributors, over 1000 pages of valuable information and resources, and
still growing.
We've
received countless numbers of emails from single moms who are struggling on
a daily basis to raise their children with no support from family, society
or government subsidized aid. We want to recognize these single mothers for
their hard work and devotion to strive to make ends meet and provide what
they can for their children. We would like to invite single moms to spend
some time to look at SingleMom.com and see if we can be of help and support
you by providing information, resources and chat rooms for discussion.
Our volunteers work hard to reply to most email from our visitors
because we know how important a caring reply or acknowledgement can be. We
wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for your support throughout the years.
Thank you
for your continued support. We look forward to providing you and your
family with quality information, resources and community.
Joy Morgan
Writer/Personal Coach
Joy Morgan is a single mom of two wonderful young children. She resides in
San Francisco, California and her hobbies include reading, writing,
traveling and giving people advice. She's been with SingleMom.com as a
devoted contributor in our "Ask Joy" section since 2000. Prior to that, she
was a regular contributor for many well-know online magazines such as
Parenting Magazine, Single Mothers Magazine, and a regular volunteer at
CommunityImpact.org.
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