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We are accepting Just-in-time grant applications through November 1, 2011.  Download the application from the Download section.   Complete and forward to address per instructions on form.

Our Guiding Principle

"Something must be done to reduce the economic insecurity in the African-American community and specifically in African-American single parent households. Many of these families are economically and politically insecure and generally miseducated about how to gain access to resources that can enhance their lives (Source: IWWWE Organizing Document).

What is the Career Path Leadership Program? PDF Print E-mail

The starting point of the Career Path Connections Program is the Career Path Leadership Program.

 

This 16 week program provides participants with:

  • an introduction to in healthcare careers
  • skills needed to increase or enhance personal mastery
  • relationship building and management,
  • problem solving
  • team development
  • coaching, mentoring and counseling
  • building technology skills,
  • planning and managing life change,
  • nutrition and wellness
  • 360 feedback


In part, the leadership program will be developed in conjunction with the John Watson Institute and Mercer County Community College, Leadership Trenton, the Trenton YWCA and the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University. This program will be experiential and will take a very hands-on approach to creating leaders for healthcare training.

 

Target Audience:

The target audience for this project is minority urban women ages 18 to 42 with a focus on African-American women, the area of greatest need. Recruitment sources will include the Trenton, YWCA, Doorway to Hope, Boys and Girls Club of Trenton, Trenton High Medical Arts Program, Home Healthcare Aid Directories and others.

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"If you don't like the way the world is, you can change it.  You have an obligation to change it.  You just do it one step at a time."

~ Marion Wright Edelman