This is a twelve-month curriculum that teaches skills women can use to enter or re-enter the job market. Skills include sewing, fashion design and crafting. In addition to sewing instruction, students will learn basic financial skills from a trained financial adviser, resume writing and interview skills from a job counselor, how to dress for an interview, and basic employment etiquette, such as on-time arrivals, calling when late, scheduling time off with supervisor's approval.
Our program teaches women independence and self-reliance using sewing as the platform. The course is offered free to qualified women. It is 6 hours per day, 4 days per week for 50 weeks. The duration of the program is designed to provide stability and continuity, as well as a safe place to go while women reestablish themselves. Shorter programs do not give the stability needed to work through the vicissitudes of making new lives.
The mission of TenderLove Community Center is to help homeless, near homeless and low-income women achieve stable, self-supporting lives for themselves and their families. We seek to break cycles of poverty and homelessness through programs that teach skills to enter or re-enter the job market after traumatic circumstances such as survival of domestic violence, previous incarceration, or homelessness
1518 Girard Blvd NE