FRISTERS
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Direct beneficiaries per year: 500
Geographic areas served: Greater Orange County
Mission:
When teenagers choose to parent, many lose the support of their family and friends. Many drop out of school and depend upon welfare and other assistance programs. Their choices in life seem to be few and they can become depressed and hopeless…
Fristers addresses the needs of these young moms and offers them hope for their future.
Fristers empowers young moms for life, sharing education, community resources, tools and real life stories to build them up and equip them to be self-sufficient women and moms.
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Badkinson
06/27/12
Fristers helps young moms learn how to first love and respect themselves and learn how to love and take care of their children. From self esteem classes to parenting classes. Fristers changes the lives of young moms who need help in parenting to job interviewing. They spend time investing, ...
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MartaM
06/22/12
I've been attending Fristers for a couple months but in those couple of months they have showed me what it is like to feel accepted. Being a mom at a young age, when you're a kid yourself is difficult, but week by week they re assured me it would be okay. Fristers has given me an extra confidence ...
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Lupita G.
06/19/12
I was a teen mother who attended fristers and for the times that I was there I can truly say that my life was being transformed.it was a very difficult time in my life,I didn't have the support of my immediate family and felt alone and misguided. Fristers took me in with such love and taught me that...
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