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- EIN 20-0815148
- 817 920 9326
- 3507 Horne Street Fort Worth TX 76107 USA
- www.opendoors4women.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Mission: Opening Doors for Women in Need is a faith-based organization that has been serving Fort Worth women and their families as well as the Como Community for eight years. ODWIN was created by Sandra Stanley to provide education and services for women who have experienced emotional trauma that has led to pain and suffering. Often working with women who have been recently incarcerated, ODWIN’s founder and her team of volunteers, help women overcome the many obstacles and barriers they face when released from prison. Opening Doors recognizes that when you help a woman, you also help a child, a family and a community. Opening Doors’ Community center on Horne Street is located in the heart of Como. With a food pantry, clothing donation center, Foot in The Door Resale Boutique, computer room, organic community garden, meeting facilities and services offered, Opening Doors makes a daily difference in the lives of people in the surrounding neighborhood. Open Doors For Women In Need Inc. will enchance self esteem, build confidence, and empower women. Through our transitional living program, we will help them realize that "when one door closes, another one opens."
Results: We have a transitional home and five affordable homes currently in the community of Como. We have a beautiful, multiple lot(s) Community Garden at Prevost & Humbert. that helps to feed the ladies in the program and neighbors. We have been blessed with a donation to help expand our community services to the people of Como and are in process of acquiring a new property that will offer employment opportunities and services to the Como Neighborhood.
Target demographics: Women ages 18 -60 years old, primarily re-entering society from prision, women who are in recovery from drug addiction, physical abuse and/or emotional trauma.
Programs: Transitional housing - providing safe, clean transitional housing for the women in the opening doors for women need program is an essential need for our clients. They are destitute and have nowhere to go once released from prison. For some the only option is to return back into the situations that sent them to prison. Expenses of this program include utilities, maintenance, and upkeep of the properties. The women are in this program for 12 months during which they have strict housing rules and goals requirements.
nehemiah project - reentry job training and counseling. In 2013 the organization began the renovation of an existing building in the como community. It will be used to house the back to work initiative with the goal of assisting the women in the opening doors for women in the program along with male ex-offenders in the community. Opening doors for women in need will partner with existing resources to bring job search training, counseling, and vocational school information into the community. Because of the high unemployment rate and high percentage of parolees released in the 76107 zip code, this project will help to give another option to the ex-offender.
food and community garden program - opening doors for women in need text approach that if we can teach the community the importance of healthy eating and bring awareness to the importance of a healthy diet it will help to combat diabetes and hypertension in the community. Opening doors for women in need help to educate schoolchildren in the community on how to garden and why it is important to eat healthy. Opening doors for women in need also works with the como community center's senior citizens program. The senior citizens help in the garden and they are welcome to the fresh produce grown. This also helps them to get exercise to stay fit when volunteering in the garden. The food pantry program partners with the tarrant area food bank to provide resources to the community. The produce grown in the food garden is also provided to the community.