- Gabriel Project
- Phone: 703-841-3810 or toll-free: 1-866-444-3553
- Email: gabrielproject@arlingtondiocese.org
- Website: www.arlingtondiocese.org/office/family/gp-home
- Description: Provides “loving, unconditional, and non-judgmental” support to “help pregnant women with
- long or short-term needs.” Assists mothers with pre-natal and post-natal needs. Offers physical,
- material, spiritual, and emotional support.
- Volunteer Translators Welcome!: Faithful, Catholic women, who are fluent in both English and Spanish are
- needed to assist, primarily, with translating for pregnant women, at their prenatal appointments, at Tepeyac Family
- Center, in Fairfax.
- Volunteer Opportunity Available!: Help expectant and new mothers with material,
- spiritual, and emotional needs.
- A Women’s Choice – Crisis Pregnancy Center
- Phone: 703-538-4305
- Address: 6201 Leesburg Pike, Suite 220, Falls Church, VA 22044
- Description: Assists mothers with pre-natal and post-natal needs. Offers physical, material,
- and emotional support.
- Volunteers Welcome!: Women needed who are morally supportive of all aspects of the Pro-Life Movement and who
- can give 3-4 hours of time, each week.
- Catholic Charities
- Phone: toll-free: 1-800-CARE-002 or 703-841-2530
- Website: www.ccda.net
- Description: Provides free, confidential, professional counseling for women and men and their families.
- Immediate assistance to help you set up medical care, alternative housing, and to consider a parenting or
- adoption plan for your unborn child. Offers support groups for victims of sexual abuse.
- Care Net
- Phone: 703-478-5661 (24/7)
- Address: 109 Carpenter Dr., Sterling, VA 20164
- Website: www.care-net.org/
- Description: “Care Net is a non-profit organization that supports
- a network of over 750 pregnancy resource centers in the United States and Canada.
- These centers offer free pregnancy tests, peer counseling, post-abortion support,
- and other practical help to empower women and men facing pregnancy related concerns.”
- Tepeyac Family Center
- Phone: 703-273-9440
- Address: 11135 Lee Hwy., Fairfax
- Website: www.tepeyacfamilycenter.com
- Description: Offers crisis pregnancy medical services, OB/GYN services, Natural
- Family Planning (NFP), Fertility Awareness, and breast feeding instructions, and other medical
- services.
- Kristen Anderson Perinatal Hospice Program (KAPHP)
- Phone: 703-273-9440
- Address: 11135 Lee Hwy., Fairfax
- Website: www.tepeyacfamilycenter.com
- Description: KAPHP is a special program of Tepeyac Family Center for any pregnant mother who is carrying
- a baby who has been diagnosed with a lethal disease. The program is designed to provide medical, emotional, and
- spiritual comfort to pregnant women and their families.
- Catholic Charities Victims/Survivors of Sexual Abuse Support Group
- Phone: 703-841-2530
- Contact: Patricia Mudd, A.C.S.W., Victim Assistance Coordinator
- Website: www.ccda.net
- Description: Offers a 10-week support group for victims of sexual
- abuse in Arlington and Fredericksburg. Also offers Masses and Prayer Services in the local
- area to Pray for the Healing for Victims/Survivors of Sexual Abuse. Bilingual English/Spanish Masses
- are also offered.
- Catholic Charities Birth Mothers’ Support Group
- Phone: 703-425-0100
- Website: www.ccda.net
- Description: This group meets weekly for a limited number of sessions in
- Northern Virginia. It is for any woman who has ever placed a child for adoption and
- would like to meet with others who have done the same. There is a modest fee based
- on income. For more information call Kim at (703) 425-0100. All calls are strictly
- confidential. Sponsored by Catholic Charities. You need not be Catholic or have
- placed your child through Catholic Charities to attend.
- Catholic Charities Adoption Information Meetings
- Phone: 703-425-0100
- Address: 5294 Lyngate Court, Burke, VA 22015
- Website: www.ccda.net
- Description: Catholic Charities hosts these sessions at different times, throughout
- the year. The presentation covers Catholic Charities Domestic, International,
- Interstate, and Parental Placement Adoption Programs, with an emphasis on the home study, placement,
- and supervision of children, as well as, the resources from which to adopt and local adoptive parent
- support groups. CCDA is especially seeking African/American and interracial couples interested in
- adopting. Registration Fee Applies. Please call 703-425-0100 to register.
- Natural Family Planning (NFP)
- Phone: Carol & Stan Greer 703-352-4452
- Website: www.nova.ccli.org
- Description: The Natural Family Planning (NFP) program at St. Leo’s
- exists to teach engaged and married couples about God’s plan for marital sexuality
- and the use of NFP. The classes usually consist of 3 two-hour sessions, spaced one month
- apart. Spanish courses are also available. St. Leo’s parish is also the Northern Virginia
- office of the Couple to Couple League (CCL), a nationwide NFP educators’ group based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
- The program also offers counseling over the phone to people interested in learning about the Church’s
- teachings on marital sexuality.
- NFP Classes by Correspondence – The Couple to Couple League offers NFP
- classes by correspondence for those couples who are unable to attend a regularly
- scheduled class. Call the Office for Family Life at 703-841-2550 for more info.
- Planificación Natural de la Familia (NFP)
El programa de Planificación Natural de la Familia existe para enseñar a parejas comprometidascasarse y para aquellos que ya están casados sobre el plan de Dios para la sexualidad dentro delmatrimonio y el uso de la NFP. La instrucción sobre la NFP es un servicio de la Liga de Pareja aPareja en el Norte de Virginia. Enseñan el método sintotérmico para determinar la fertilidad que,cuando está correctamente enseñado y entendido, tiene una efectividad del 99% para ayudar a una
- pareja planificar o evitar un embarazo.
- Dos parejas enseñan el NFP en Español en el Norte de Virginia:
- David y Alicia James (Annandale); Teléfono: 703-642-8378; Email: pavoalelu@juno.com
- Marcos y Myriam Pérez (Ashburn); Teléfono: 703-729-1716; Email: mmmperez@aol.com
- Para mayor información visite la siguiente dirección del internet: www.planificacionfamiliar.net
- Creighton Method of Natural Family Planning
- Email Dr. Robert Conkling : fcaredc.va.md@verizon.net
- Website: www.fertilitycare.org
- Description: “This is a comprehensive system of family planning that monitors and maintains a
- woman’s health… [CrMS is] a method of true family planning… Unlike many methods of family planning, the
- Creighton Model System is medically safe and has no known side effects associated with its use.”