Women’s Empowerment
Employment-Readiness and Subleasing Programs
About Women’s Empowerment
Women’s Empowerment has four main goals:
- Meet basic needs of women and children who are homeless
- Empower women with tools to secure stable employment or enroll in school
- Provide resources and advocacy so women can find a home
- Empower graduates with advanced paid training and job retention services.
By preparing Sacramento women experiencing homelessness with a job-readiness program, emotional support and case management, and assistance through transportation, childcare and more, women form a sisterhood of support that allows them greater opportunity. Women and children find stability, allowing children to become better students with abundant opportunity who can provide for the next generation.
Employment-Readiness and Subleasing Programs
With the prolonged housing crisis, program graduates must earn $26/hour and have a credit score of 650 to qualify for a 1-bedroom apartment in Sacramento. Graduates need housing they can afford with mid to entry-level salaries so they can retain jobs, secure promotions, rebuild credit and qualify for market–rate housing. This project provides the critical bridge they need.
- Objective 1: Provide workforce development and wraparound services to women experiencing homelessness in the initial 8-week employment-readiness program, as well as graduates, so they can secure and maintain a job, climb the career ladder and earn more.
- Objective 2: Provide 40 women and children with affordable workforce housing for up to 2 years through the innovative subleasing program.
This ensures that women who graduate from the program have a commitment of rental affordability. The 8-week program is offered quarterly. Women meet with a Women’s Empowerment social worker to address their unique barriers, and with a job developer to prepare for and find jobs, a housing specialist to find and keep housing, and a credit repair specialist to improve financial health. Those who graduate without jobs and/or housing continue work with the Women’s Empowerement program team.
