Fresh Start Women's Foundation

Career, education and training services: Fresh Start career services support women in their journeys to new and better training and employment. In fy23, Fresh Start provided 528 one-on-one career coaching sessions and a plethora of career workshops spanning the topics of interviewing, job searching, and resume writing skills. One of the newest career offerings this year is the career empowerment series; a three-day workshop series dedicated to helping women discover their strengths and prepare for upcoming career opportunities. Women exit this workshop with the knowledge and confidence necessary to pursue and achieve their career aspirations. Fresh Start offers a breadth of education offerings spanning the topics of financial and computer literacy, parenting, healthy living, interpersonal skills and growth, goal setting, resiliency, and a wide variety of other personal and professional education topics. These classes, workshops, and webinars are facilitated by highly trained staff and instructors, along with community professionals and experts. There were over 7,175 workshop attendees this year, who reported a 93% overall satisfaction rate.fresh Start offers unique scholarship opportunities and access to training programs for our clients who are eager to pursue the next level of their education and career goals. This last year, 222 women enrolled in a career training opportunity. Fresh Start awarded a total of $35,812 for career and workforce development, empowering women to gain the skills necessary to thrive in a new career. Fresh Start collaborates with numerous employers in the valley, including intel, cvs, and jp morgan chase to provide women access to career opportunities in today's top industries.

Well-being services: Fresh Start offers a breadth of offerings that impact the well-being of clients. The services include mentoring, personal empowerment workshops, support groups, health coaching and health workshops. These classes, workshops, and webinars are facilitated by highly trained staff and instructors, along with community professionals and experts. There were over 4,323 workshop attendees this year.

Social work services: social workers supported women with an array of experiences and struggles, including their barriers to success, resource needs, goal setting and problem solving, domestic violence, boundary setting, and much more. 438 resource coaching sessions were conducted to get women connected with community resources and enrolled in the Fresh Start impact program. Fresh Start's team of skilled social workers conducted 1,990 one-on-one social work sessions last year supporting women in creating personalized goals, resulting in 90% of social work clients achieving their goals. In conjunction with one-on-one sessions, women attended social work support groups, building community, while addressing topics such as boundary setting, codependency, addiction, and so much more. Social work services are the backbone of Fresh Start, supporting women as they overcome hurdles and achieve their goals and dreams.

Family stability services: family stability helps women navigate Arizona's complicated legal system and court process, supporting clients through divorce, separation, orders of protection, child custody and child support, and all other family law issues. Family law support staff conducted 1,348 individual sessions which provided women with legal information and assistance with document review and/or document preparation for their divorce or family law matters. Our family law information sessions break down the basic terminology and process of a family law court. Women cannot become self-sufficient with family law legal issues holding them back; family law support helps remove this barrier by equipping women with appropriate knowledge and affordable document preparation.

Financial management services: Fresh Start offers financial literacy workshops and one-on-one financial coaching. These sessions include topics such as: budgeting, healthy money habits, bill management, rent & lease assessment, credit scores and reporting, credit card use and home ownership. Of women served in fy23 87% of fy23 clients had low to moderate income with more than 50% reporting less than $25k household income.