PATHWAYS TO BRIGHTNESS
The Pathways to Brightness Program is an economic housing stabilization program geared toward assisting women transitioning from domestic violence with obtaining services, skills, and resources that will allow them to move from victim to survivor. The Pathways to Brightness Program focuses on three areas immediate needs, transitional services, and stabilization services.
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Immediate needs services provide domestic violence response and emergency referral services to survivors in need of emergency shelter services.
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Transitional services provide transitional housing opportunities that place survivors coming out of temporary domestic violence shelters into mid-term and long-term housing.
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Stabilization services provide a continuum of care to survivors who are impacted by domestic violence. Diamond Diva Empowerment Foundation provides up to $1,500.00 per client to either help find a new residence, assist them with their current rent, mortgage payment or a down payment toward a new home purchase. Our goal is to stabilize communities and ensure sustainable homeownership, whenever possible. Current and potential home buyers are offered the Home Loan Process class and may attend First Homebuyers 101 literacy class. Clients may also receive assistance with furniture, housing supplies, personal hygiene, and utilities assistance when funds are available.
PATHWAYS TO HEALING:
Pathways to Healing program provides Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy & Creative Arts Therapy as a part of our mental health wellness and counseling services program. Pathways to Healing seeks to address issues of trauma, the effects of violence and to reduce the transference of cyclical and generational trauma in crime victims. The individual, group & family therapy sessions are provided to survivors and their children, allowing them to effectively begin to process and recover from these traumatic experiences.
Case management and social work teams work with clients to access long term needs and to assess the impact of the crime. Case Management including, Management of trauma caused by victimization; Identification of resources available to the victim; Providing information referrals advocacy and follow up contact for continued services as needed; Traditional, cultural, and/or alternative therapy/healing. Community Resources and referral are provided to each participant based on their need. The individual, group & family therapy sessions will provide the opportunity for survivors to effectively begin to process and recover from these traumatic experiences.
Children’s Therapy consists of creative play, art, or drama therapy, for ages 3-17. Professional licensed therapists interact using toys, games, stories, and creative materials. The goal is to reinforce safety, reduce PTSD symptoms, enhance coping skills, process traumatic events, and provide psychoeducation on healthy relationships for the future.
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PATHWAYS TO PROSPERITY
Pathways to Brightness-Prosperity/Personal and Professional Development: Further professional and personal development allows survivors the ability to maintain self-sufficiency and reduces the likelihood of survivors to return to an unstable violent relationship.
This initiative helps clients with developing long-term personal and professional goals and plans to reach them. One component is the Business Center. This program will assist interested clients to receive the necessary training modules needed to start their business venture. After graduation of its 12-week program, collaboration will continue as we partner to host four (4) Business Pop-Up shops that will be designed to build self-confidence, business integrity, and implement the key points developed through both programs. Once the business is established, we offer a MOU with the business as a partnering entity or a vendor with our organization. Currently, there are 35% of our clients that are current entrepreneurs.
Once each client is completed with the program, they will receive a Business in a Box™. A Business in A Box™ is the essence of the business documents needed to maintain and operate their business.
This includes, but not limited to:
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Fictitious Name Registration
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Business Email
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Business Telephone Number
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Articles of Incorporation
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Certificate of Organization
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Federal EIN Number
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Certificate of Good Standing
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W-9 IRS Form,
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Operating Agreement, if needed.
Partner consultants has over 35 years of combined experience developing and creating the first stages of business documents needed for every graduate to open their business bank account.