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About Us |
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In partnership with community residents, The
Center for Working Families, Inc. (TCWFI) works to provide a combination
of job placement, job development and asset-building programs to meet
the needs of families in the six neighborhoods clustered around Atlanta’s
Turner Field (also known as Neighborhood Planning Unit V or NPU-V).
Launched in the fall of 2005, TCWFI is designed to bundle these services
in a family-friendly way through intensive pathway coaching and tailored
classes, and by linking multiple service providers in partnership
around residents. Recognizing that the greatest asset in the community
is its residents, TCWFI integrates these services with strategies
that build resident capacity and social capital. This integration
occurs through two programs: the Center for Working Families Program
and the Community Building Program.
- The Center for Working Families Program
(CWF) includes three strategies. Its Moving
to Work Pathway helps unemployed and underemployed residents
secure and maintain jobs that offer family supporting wages and
benefits. Its Moving
to Wealth Pathway helps employed residents build savings
and assets and its Fatherhood
Initiative provides intensive mentoring and coaching
to reconnect fathers to their families and community. All strategies
work toward linking CWF participants to the full array of TCWFI
programs and services designed to increase income, employment,
and assets.
- The Community
Building Program (CBP) nurtures leadership among residents,
leading to increased capacity so that residents become the primary
change agents and, consequently, the primary beneficiaries of
community transformation.
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