We need to help our women peer to peer and man to Daughter or Man to Wife or Son to Mother or Uncle to Aunt or Uncle to Daughter Dear Friends, Here is a Female making a difference from the streets, UP!! Introducing: Ms Toshonna Ross Founder / Executive Director at Courageous Women Association Hello Everyone! Courageous Women Association along with BOSS - Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency, invites you to come out to our very special Graduation Ceremony for the disadvantaged women and men in our Bay Area Communities, who have successfully advanced from our Free 5 Week Employment Workshop Series held March 1-29th at the Workforce Collaborative in Oakland! The participants are 75 women and men living in poverty, are homeless, unemployed, veterans, in rehabilitation programs, and residing in shelters and transitional housing facilities, who desire the chance to improve their lives. These women and men traveled each Saturday from San Francisco, Fremont, Oakland, San Leandro, San Pablo, Berkeley/Richmond, and Hayward, to attend our workshop on which our volunteer business professionals and leaders taught on the importance of Image, Etiquette, Communication, Esteem Building, Marketing, Social Media Networking, and Resume Critique and Interview Skills. ALL participants received Free computers from the Alameda County Computer Resource Center, A Free entire Weeks worth of donated Suits from Courageous Women Association, Free Business Essentials from Blaisdells Business Products, Free childcare while attending the workshop; breakfast and lunch served each week, and a host of employment, housing, and other resources! City of Oakland Councilmember, Rebecca Kaplan, has designed and provided special Graduation Certificates, while we have 4 City Officials from the Bay Area, coming to speak to our graduates, showing their support of their growth and change; support of our impoverished communities, and support of Courageous Women Associations programs! City of San Pablo Councilmember Cecilia Valdez, City of San Francisco Councilmember David Campos, City of Berkeley Councilmember, Maxwell Anderson, and City of Stockton Councilmember Dyane Burgos Medina. Bay Areas own Award Winning Jazz Musician and Recording Artist, Ric Alexander, will perform, and our incredible Keynote Speaker, who is a Motivational Speaker and the CEO of Whats For Work? Teri Hockett, will be there to inspire and empower our graduates at our Saturday, April 5th Ceremony, held at Parks Chapel AME Church in Oakland. And the blessings continue with our very own EXCLUSIVE Job Fair, held Saturday, April 12th provided ONLY to our Graduates, so they can utilize the skills and tools learned from our workshop and apply them towards applying, interviewing, and with our fingers crossed...getting jobs! We are excited and blessed by the support weve had. Our last workshop ended with 60% of our participants getting jobs within the first 3 weeks after graduating our program and 20% going on to further their education! With funding, it will allow us to deliver our employment workshop FREE to all impoverished people in our Bay Area Communities, twice a year! We already have a full waiting list of people for our next workshop! We hope to see you at our Graduation Ceremony and thank you again for your support, volunteering and donations!!! Please log onto courageouswomen.org, and click on the In The News tab for more information.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 04:36:29 +0000
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