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GREENSBORO – A new facility called My Sister Susan's House will offer a safe haven for young women who are pregnant or taking care of a child with nowhere else to go.

"There's about 1,500 teen moms in Guilford County, according to our estimation, and about 80 percent is what the national statistics show have been abused within a year of their pregnancy," Susan Cupito, with the YWCA, said.

Monday, the people who made My Sister Susan's House possible celebrated the grand opening.

"This has been a huge project really from beginning to end, and a huge collaborative project where the YWCA, UNCG, GTCC, the city of Greensboro. So many different agencies all really came together to make this facility possible," Chuck Hodierne, with Youth Focus, said.

The 4,500-square-foot home can accommodate roughly 10 women ages 16 to 21.

It has many green features and was designed and built by students from UNC Greensboro and Guilford Technical Community College.

Sen. Kay Hagan says the project was funded with stimulus dollars.

"$400,000 has been used to help with this building, and I was sort of a part and parcel to be sure we got through the justice department, the Violence Against Women Act in order to be sure that this project got funding. So this is a great example of the stimulus package putting people back to work and doing good things in our communities," Hagan said.

My Sister Susan's House will also provide counseling, education and life skills training to young mothers.

Officials hope to have people ready to move in as early as this week