Program Objectives

• To provide women with a variety of job skills and training, depending on their interest
and strengths.
• To develop and implement creative programming for children and families that confronts internal strife, resolves conflicts, and minimizes recidivism, homelessness, and domestic
violence.
• To provide personal financial education, savings systems, credit counseling, and other
incentives that enable women to become economically self-sufficient. Services and Workshops WHEW's programs address the holistic needs of clients acclimating back into society. Their employment, career and job training, and counseling programs are approached nontraditionally yet are evidence-based, using innovative and client-centered methods that are culturally relevant to participants.



PHASE I


PHASE II

Main Services

      Second Chance Project       Workshops

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Immediate Future Services

Employment Assistance: To provide referrals and job placement.

Job Skills and Training: To teach women about computer data entry, website design and
maintenance, inventory and distribution of goods, fashion design and accessory items,
cosmetology, and culinary arts.

Housing Assistance: To provide referrals, rental assistance, and home-buyer education.

Health Care: To provide referrals, holistic nutritional education, preventative/alternative
methods of promoting wellness, and information about reproductive justice.

Financial Literacy: To implement mandatory workshops to help clients raise their
standard of living by setting up IDA accounts to build assets, providing mandatory
literacy instruction, and emphasizing money management skills, including future
financial planning and training for their specific asset goals.

Seeds Planting Seeds: This program educates youth about nutrition, preservation of
the ecosystem, and ways to combat hunger. Children of formerly incarcerated parents,
youth who were formerly (juvenile) incarcerated, and other young people from the
community will be the primary participants in the program.

 

 

The Future of WHEW: International Outreach

According to the United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF), nearly 50% of the people living in developing countries are uneducated. West Africa has the lowest coverage of drinking water and sanitation in the world, and the numbers are rising, not falling. According to UNESCO's Regional overview on sub-Saharan Africa, in 2000 only 58% of children were enrolled in primary schools, the lowest enrollment rate of any region. Africa has more than 40 million children,almost half the school-age child population, receiving no schooling. Two-thirds of these are girls. WHEW seeks to not only address problems that are being faced by women of color in America, but to link disenfranchised and marginalized women around the world who are facing similar challenges in order to help them empower one another. Thus, Phase II will encompass an international component. WHEW believes in the idea of not reinventing the wheel. It would be wiser to model and emulate programs that have already been proven successful, like Muhammad Yunus™ and the Grameen Bank's™ micro-loan program in Bangladesh and Wangari Maathai's™ Green Belt Movement. Therefore, WHEW's™ proposed projects are the following:
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