In celebration of Women’s History Month, NBC 5 visited with a local organization that’s been helping women get on their feet since 1983.
“Whatever it is we bring resources together to help support what their goal is so they can stabilize economically and achieve independence,” said Britt Shawver
“We start with housing opportunities on purpose because it’s kind of the linchpin behind everything that stabilizes a family,” said Shawver. Those tears came when Candy contacted H.O.W. for help and they helped her get her own place to live after getting out of prison. She was able to have her children live with her again.
“The program works where we support a portion of the rent for people for as long as they need it and if portion is 100%, we do,” Shawver explained.“That might be rehab support," said H.O.W. board chair, Urvi Shah."That may be remembering how to cook. Really looking at the human and thinking about the human support that that individual needs.”
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