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June 18th, 2012

6/18/2012

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One of the goals of our HOPE for Women program is to empower women to improve their lives through education and skill building. HOPE for Women recognizes that there are challenges to employment for women that go back to the early days of industrialization. Women and children often did the jobs no one else wanted to do or had the jobs that were most dangerous, in factories and textile mills. At HOPE we also see that women are put in the same category as undocumented individuals because they are often doing the least desirable work, which is often the most important to keeping our nation clothed, fed and healthy. 

At HOPE we work to provide women with the skills they need to
ensure independence and self sufficiency while being able to both work and meet their other responsibilities. Our computer training prepares women for the next step in furthering their careers or education. We work hard to understand the needs of our participants as well as their other roles. Many of the women are single mothers or the primary caretaker of the home and children. They are being asked by society to be caring and competent mothers as well as independent from state or federal assistance. Are we asking too much? Are we sacrificing our children’s futures? We may be doing so if we ask these women to support their families with little or no education. A woman who enters the workforce with
little job experience and no education is going to struggle to find a minimum wage job and will have to work overtime just to make ends meet. Her daycare costs may outweigh her salary thus encouraging her to not to seek employment.
Programs like Head Start, early Head Start and CAPS may allow women to return to work without paying all of their income to daycare, but these programs are struggling with federal cuts to funding and often have waiting lists for their
much needed services. If given the choice to be with her children or work a grueling minimum wage job paying almost her whole check to someone else to watch her children what choice would you make? 

When we look at the family decision making process around returning to work, childcare subsidies factor heavily into the decision. Unless we can provide a living wage to women and the training necessary to secure employment in such a job we are really hindering the decision making process and not giving her many options she can feel good about. We have basically told her that she is not a contributing member of society if she receives public assistance, but takes care of her children at home or that she is a bad mother for working a minimum wage job and having others raise her child while she works double shifts to make ends meet. 

HOPE is committed to providing the training necessary so women in our community can make an informed decision based on options not based on doing the least for themselves or their children.

What do you think?

Christian Orobello
Executive Director
House of Peace & Education, Inc.


3 Comments
Karen Boutell
10/15/2012 05:00:29 am

I go to the chair city church. That is where I heard first heard of this program offered. 22 yrs ago I was a single parent of a 5 yr old and a 5 mos old. I was fortunate to have had the help of my mother to help provide daycare for my children. However, I along the way I had to acquire and grow up fast. I went to hairdressing school got my license. I continued to struggle. I worked 3 jobs including a paper route 7 days a week 365 days a yr for 8 yrs and do hair at a salon and a nursing home to get by. Pride stood in my way to ask for outside help. I survived physical and emotional abuse during this time. This program you offer is amazing. I feel the tools you offer is a great start for all these women. To have a chance and a place to turn is a wonderful and a reassuring thing. something I didnt know back then. I found god many years ago. He was all I had that kept me going. My kids are successful , oldest a manager, youngest an emt, firefighter, cna. and a grandson. I myself have own a salon in winchendon. So I commend you for what you are doing. There should be more of these programs. Women who want to be helped and make a difference in there kids lives should receive this help. As single mothers we can make a differences and how we make decisions will reflect how our children make there decisions by seeing how we adapt to how we live. I am proof of that because we all made the best of a bad situation and came out on top. Hope this also gives you knowledge coming from a single mother of some of the situations that were discussed in church. I am a survivor. God Bless YOU!!

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