This Denver mom once feared losing everything. At Women’s Bean Project, she found stability — and freedom.

When Brittany Persichitte walked through the doors of Women’s Bean Project in April 2023, she carried things no résumé could explain: fear, determination, and the hope that this time she would build a different life.

“In my past, there was a lot of drug addiction,” she said quietly when we spoke at the Women’s Bean Center off Federal Blvd. in Denver. “I had a lot of incarceration, homelessness. I ended up getting pregnant, and that was my changing point for myself. I did not want to lose custody of my son.”

Her love for him — and the fear of losing him — became her north star.

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