Mercy Multiplied is an international Christian charitable organization organization that offers a six-month faith-based residential program for young women between the ages of 13 and 32 who suffer from issues such as eating disorders, depression, self-harm, abuse issues, and drug and alcohol addictions. The ministry operates as A Girl Called Hope in New Zealand. The organization is anti-abortion, and offers women with unplanned pregnancies alternatives to abortion as part of its program. In 2010, the program was extended to work with victims of sex trafficking. History Mercy Multiplied was founded in 1983 by Nancy Alcorn. She had previously worked for eight years as an athletic director in a Tennessee Department of Corrections facility for delinquent girls, then to supervise foster-care placements with an Emergency Child Protective Services unit investigating cases of abuse and neglect, and then Director of Women at the Nashville Teen Challenge program. Alcorn opened the first Mercy Ministries home in West Monroe in 1983 (which until 1987 was better-known as "Covenant Ministries"). A second home was opened in Nashville in 1996 followed by new corporate headquarters in 2001. The organization went international in 2001, opening two facilities in Australia followed by further homes in the United Kingdom in 2006, New Zealand in 2007 and Canada in 2010. Following widely publicized abuse scandals, they announced the closure of the Australian homes. The Sunshine Coast facility closed in June 2008 followed by the Sydney (Baulkham Hills) home in October 2009. Mercy Ministries New Zealand registered the domain name for A Girl Called Hope on September 21, 2010, completing the transition to this new name on January 28, 2011. The organization also opened homes in St Louis, Missouri and Sacramento, California in 2005 and 2009 respectively. Ethos While the Mercy Multiplied website states they are a non-denominational Christian organization, the organization is also considered to be evangelical, charismatic and fundamentalist, both as an organization and in their approach to treatment. Its website states that the founder, Nancy Alcorn, established the following three financial principles for the program: Accept girls free of charge; Give at least ten percent of all donations to other organizations and ministries; and To not accept any state or federal funding as it interferes with the freedom to share Christ. The program treats all disorder through faith- and prayer-based means in place of professional support and treatment. Former residents and staff have reported that the organization seized