Program areas at CWU
Empath's housing and stabilization programs served 1,074 people, including 455 families in fy23. These programs include emergency shelter for homeless families and supportive housing services for formerly homeless families living in permanent housing. Empath is one of the largest providers of emergency housing in Massachusetts, operating 160 units. Empath's housing and stabilization programs provide intensive education and case management to help families stabilize and gain skills and confidence necessary to achieve Economic independence.
The Economic Mobility exchange is a membership-based network comprised of nonprofit organizations and government agencies learning together about Empath's Mobility mentoring model. Through training, webinars, technical assistance, and online resource portal, the network captures and shares back innovative ways in which members evolve and adapt the model and tools, sharing best practices to most efficiently support people in their journey to full Economic self-sufficiency. In fy23, there were over 2,000 individuals trained by the Economic Mobility exchange. Since 2014, over 360,000 individuals have been served.
Empath's Mobility mentoring services provide low-income women an opportunity to develop the skills, knowledge and strategies necessary to achieve Economic self-sufficiency. The Mobility mentoring services programs ground their training in the five pillars of Empath's "bridge to self sufficiency"(tm): family stability, well-being, education and training, financial management, and employment and career management. In the most intesive Mobility program,the average annual income increased from $18,700 to $52,800 over the duration of the program.
Empath's research department tracks participant data across five pillars of the "bridge to self-sufficiency"(tm): family stability well-being, education and training, financial management and employment and career management. Empath's advocacy department promotes public policy changes that help low income women achieve Economic independence
The food sevices program at Empath, provides meals to senior citizens in the greater boston area. In fy23, Empath served over 100,000 meals to senior citizens in greater boston