They also purchase food, clothes, and necessities for the children and coordinate with a DFCS nurse regarding medical care issues. Complete casework management and other needed social services are also provided as part of the program. A number of MHA's other innovative programs were cooperatively initiated with the Macon Police Department and aggressively address the problem of drugs, gangs, and other criminal activity in and around public housing. One such program, Team Watch, is a locally adapted combination of neighborhood watch and tenant patrol programs. Team Watch places undercover watch monitors whose identities are known only to the MHA and police in every public housing development.
Monitors continue to take an annual, refresher training course and periodic drug tests.
Since opening, the Granny House has served more than 100 addicted women and 200 children. The program has eased the burden on many young MHA, single mothers in need of drug treatment and has provided meaningful work opportunities in child care for other, older public housing residents.