Women Are Dreamers Too

Causes: Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations, Domestic Violence, Employment Preparation & Procurement, Family Violence Shelters, Homeless & Housing, Human Services, Job Training

Mission: Domestic violence prevention and intervention for under-served women, children & veterans, micro enterprise education program, financial literacy, group counseling, job skill training, nursing assistance training, and children after school math & science program

Programs: Human services - multipurpose: in addition to community reach service offerings 2012: extended services to domestic abuse survivors in forsyth county and part cherokee, women are dreamers organization added nursing assistance training program to compliment soft skill job readiness program. The programs three components: (1) nursing aid assistance education training; (2) soft skills job development training; and (3) short-term child nutrition program and counseling. All these services designed to overcome the specific barriers faced by domestic abuse survivors and offered through the wadt in-house business incubator program. The overall goal of the program is to assist the participants to become financially stable so that they can achieve self-sufficiency. Other services provided by wadt, include 24 hours counseling, and information and referral services to partner agencies in the south east region. Wadt receives referrals for its services (for women & men)

nationwide online advertisement campaign support service provided to women are dreamers too organization to create awareness to human services programs, general/other: 1. Expanded our training and non cash goods services distribution in the south east and and expanded same nationwide usa, made possible through google advertisment exposure. Successful partnership with , publix charities foundation, chatlos foundation, weyerhaeuser foundation, gwinnett technical college, wal-mart foundation, target foundation, altria foundation and new high tech classroom now equipped with dsl lines, projectors and cluster computers. Successful partnership, with farmers in the south east wadt commenced the first holiday food distribution in partnerships with mann bracken, llc employees. Recipients received gifts, frozen and canned goods, meat and poultry and a host of other holiday gifts items for their entire families. Intensify our technical training and counseling in the south eastern u. S, as well as, help the candidates and their family to become self-sufficient and accord them the decency that befits human being. It will also strengthen our communities as these candidates will now become employers and ease the intense demand on social services. The businesses being created spun other businesses, which strengthens the community. It is our hope and aspirations that the ladies will move towards home ownership from the incomes generated from their business,-this obviously is another result of economic self-determination. Lunched south east la familia program: in line with innovative models that serve latino communities throughout the country, la familia's goal is to identify and rebuild the lives of families affected in the south east region by domestic violence. The program addresses all aspects of domestic violence in the latino community through prevention and intervention services for the entire family. A bilingual and bicultural team works with families and communities to understand and change the cultural practices and beliefs that contribute to domestic abuse. Services include crisis counseling; safety planning, family interventions, support and assistance with immigration, legal issues and the schools are provided in spanish and english (0 wadt inc tracks its effectiveness as fol)