Programs and Services

Project WISE programs focus on the provision of support and empowerment to all participants.

Individual Counseling
Strengthens individual personal skills in self awareness, changing life patterns, building healthy relationships and lessening family violence.

Education and Support Groups
Identifies strengths, builds a path for change, reduces isolation, increases power to act to implement change.

Women's Leadership Program
Supports and trains women to increase skills required for personal and community leadership through:

Women's Community Organizing Project
- Brings women seeking self-sufficiency to form a multicultural group of community organizers who work to increase their visibility in systems that affect their lives.
- Trains women in leadership skills for active involvement and advocacy in their community.

WISE Women Network - A Mentoring Partnership
Partners community volunteers with Project WISE participants who are striving to achieve personal and economic goals.

Women's Leadership Council -
- Engages participant leaders who have been active in Project WISE programs.
- Empowers Project WISE leaders to be role models in their families and communities.
-Acts as participants' advisory board, which oversees Project WISE activities.
- Represents Project WISE in public settings.

Women's Leadership Retreat -
Offers leadership skills training and personal growth workshops designed to increase individual empowerment and build community among participants.