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The Get A Job Kit featured on NBC’s Today Show
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The Get A Job Kit made a special appearance on the Today Show recently, when Women’s Empowerment–the non-profit organization that produces the Kit as a solution to end homelessness–was featured in a “Hope to It” segment. As host Natalie Morales notes in the piece, each homeless woman who graduates from…
Celebrating one year of helping jobseekers–and ending homelessness!
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One year ago, Women’s Empowerment began producing the award-winning Get A Job Kit as part of an innovative paid training program for women who are experiencing homelessness in the Sacramento region. Since then twenty-four women who were once homeless have completed the paid training, and 70% of those women are…
Get A Job Kit trainees celebrate their graduation
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After the completion of their successful four-week paid training program, six women who have experienced homelessness celebrated their graduation today with the happy Women’s Empowerment staff and community volunteers who supported them during their journeys. These graduates join the 18 women before them who also completed the training–70 percent of whom are…
Congresswoman Matsui visits the Get A Job Kit program
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California Congresswoman Doris Matsui toured The Get A Job Kit program in May after honoring Women’s Empowerment–the organization that produces the Kit–with the inaugural Women’s Appreciation Award for Organization of the Year in March. Of Women’s Empowerment, Matsui said: “Women’s Empowerment provides a warm and safe environment for homeless women, empowering them to make the changes needed…
The Get A Job Kit featured in The Sacramento Bee
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The Get A Job Kit, its creator, and a couple of the recent Women’s Empowerment graduates who manufacture it, were recently featured in a blurb in The Sacramento Bee. Titled “Exposures: I Care: Kit helps guide seekers to jobs,” this feature in the Bee spotlights local volunteers–like Willey–who serve their communities…