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| Survival Skills for Women
"In a two-year study in Tennessee, the SSW program of self-sufficiency training proved successful at breaking the cycle of dependency; getting people off welfare rolls and keeping them off. What's more, the program proved more than cost-effective. Government has realized direct savings of $2.13 for every $1.00 invested . . . to date we have saved over $6 million."
--TN JOBS Program Coordinator, Fagan Thompson, Washington Times, April 1, 1995
"That's a higher success rate than ever achieved in a government sponsored job training program."
--Governor Don Sundquist, applauding the 32% decline in Tennessee's welfare caseload, 1997
“I learned that I have to be responsible for what I want to do and that the decisions I make really do make a difference.”
--Participant
“Survival Skills has helped me organize my thoughts and my actions. It has given me the incentive to resume my lifeand my education."
--Participant
Survival Skills for Men
“It is the most smoothly run and most popular class offered. The enthusiasm on the inmates’ part is extremely high. They look forward to going to class every day…which is rare! They are proud of what they get from the program and when they complete the class, we try to assign them to a job immediately, which keeps their motivation high.”
---NC Department of Corrections Staff
“Being with other guys who wanted to do something with their lives has changed my attitude.”
--Participant
“I think this program is the best I’ve ever been in. I’ve been in prison four times--and hopefully this is my last---and nobody has ever helped me as much as this program. The class has given me the knowledge to do better with my life and support to keep me from becoming a ‘prisoner’. I know now that I am going to be able to make it in the world and that my path in life is not in the prison system, but in society.”
--Participant
Survival Skills for Youth
“The cornerstone of the YWCA’s program, Survival Skills for Youth, has already proven to be a successful addition to our treatment court program in that it gives our young substance abusers the tools they lack to get their lives back on the right track in the community…this program is working. It is simple, sound, common-sensical, and cost-effective. It heals existing juvenile ‘damage’ and prevents future adult ‘damage’.”
--Judge Thomas Edwards, Juvenile Court Judge, San Jose, California
“This is a cost-effective, high-impact program that has the potential of literally saving the lives and enhancing the potential for a successful adulthood of the at-risk youth to be served.”
-- Kathryn McNamee, Probation Manager
“SSY is consistent with the goals of the juvenile Treatment Court Model. As we watch these young people go through this program, we see that they are educated in life skills which will benefit them in a positive way and keep them from reentering the criminal justice system.”
--Jose R. Villarreal, Public Defender
“This workshop has really made me think about the future. Every student in high school should take SSY.”
--Participant
“We should have had this BEFORE we got in trouble.” --Participant |
