Empowering Life is a faith-based nonprofit that provides pastoral care, life coaching, grief and loss classes, parenting classes and mentoring retreats for folks incarcerated in the Washington Correction Center for Women (Purdy) in Gig Harbor and Mission Creek Correction Center for Women near Belfair. It was founded in 2009 and has a board of 6 women. Its funding comes from a number of ELCA Lutheran churches in the area, an annual St. Valentine's Celebration fundraiser in Tacoma and an annual rummage sale in Gig Harbor along with private donations. Weekly care services in the prisons are compensated. Other work and all administration and fundraising is by volunteers.
