Niagara Gazette
February 13, 2007
House director, staff provide recipe for success
By Michele DeLuca

Whenever Teresa Martinez helps a woman find a home, or when she guides a family toward a better life, she thinks of her mother.
Martinez is director of Carolyn’s House in Niagara Falls, a unique place where women and children can come to heal and grow. And she has a clear understanding of how important it is when someone extends a hand.
“I was raised in a single-parent home, and watched my mother work different jobs and struggle with issues of childcare and tight budgets,” she said recently during an interview at the house on Sixth Street.
“I think about how tired she must have been at 2 and 3 in the morning, when she was sewing clothes for us because she couldn’t afford to buy them,” Martinez remembers.

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