Urgent Call to DC Mayor Vincent Gray

On April 1, DC Mayor Vincent Gray will propose his budget for fiscal year 2012. Righ now, DC faces a $322 million gap -which must be addressed through cuts to programs or generating new revenue-.

DC government has already made $600 million in cuts over the course of the recession, causing uncertainty in the funding of our programs.

We need more revenue to protect the programs we care about. Mayor Gray will decide this week what revenue measures to include and what programs to cut.

Mary's Center as part of the DC Fair Budget Coalition joins efforts and invites you to email the Mayor at vincent.gray@dc.gov and challenge him to raise 150 million dollars through new progressive revenue. We need your support so we can continue supporting our most vulnerable families!

Renovation in Progress

This beautiful picture on the right is now part of our history. It was taken the day of the grand opening of our headquarters located in Adams Morgan back in December 1994. We had just moved from our initial location -a basement on Columbia Road- with only 34 employees -today we are nearly 230-.

And this other picture on the left is how the same location looks today. But it's all for good.

Thanks to the financial support of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, our 'old' building is going through renovation. In the meantime, our participants from this site are being seen at our new Center on Georgia Avenue.

It's been a year since the health care reform was approved and even though there's still a lot to be done, we are confident that President Obama and his administration will continue to support the work of community centers like ours in order to provide more families with the quality care that they deserve.

Mary's Center's New Site

One week after we opened our new -and fourth site- the response has been amazing. The place is beautiful and our staff and clients can't be happier with the space and its larger capacity.

We have 22 exam rooms, 5 dental rooms, 5 rooms for our charter school, and additional areas for our teen program, mental mental, home visiting, health promotion and WIC programs.

The new site is located at 3912 Georgia Avenue, NW in the Petworth area of Ward 4.

Ward 4 has the least amount of community centers of all 8 Wards in DC and our arrival came at a right time to help provide access to health care and all of our comprehensive services to the residents of this area.

The day before we opened, Councilwoman Muriel Bowser (pictured left) from Ward 4 visited the Center and welcomed our staff to the neighborhood. Her kind words and enthusiasm encouraged us even more to do our best and to continue to support the District in its efforts to provide its residents with the highest quality of care.

It's been a great week for all of us at Mary's Center!