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Causes: Adult Education, Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations, Domestic Violence, Education, Family Violence Shelters, Homeless & Housing, Human Services, Job Training
Mission: The Yellow Brick Road Project (YBR) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 1995 to enable women who have experienced domestic violence and abuse to become financially and emotionally independent.YBR believes that three things need to happen simultaneously for a women to become free and stay free long term of an abusive situation: 1) financial independence from the abuser; 2) development/relearning the ability to trust and use a support system; and 3) addressing responses and behaviors learned during the abusive situation that were survival mechanisms, but which now sabotage efforts to move forward beyond the abuse.
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.