The Family to Family Mentoring Program provides TANF and low-income families with support to reduce their welfare and social service dependency through a variety of approaches.

The program integrates leadership development components as a means of enhancing familial self-esteem and increasing community development/ sustainability. Through the Family-to-Family Mentoring Program, families will be provided culturally appropriate and bilingual services/trainings by a culturally competent staff.

Provided services will include but not be limited to life skills and leadership training, budget management, job interviewing and retention, GED preparation, literacy, computer classes and assistance in job searching. Additionally, self-esteem development, decision-making, and parenting skills will be addressed through all the skills training. The program addresses self-sufficiency through several key elements:

• Enhancing relationships
• Social support
• Collaboration and partnerships
• Leadership
• Community involvement
• Critical thinking
• Life skills

Short Term Goals

• To increase job skills
• To enhance self-esteem
• To augment critical thinking
• To strengthen parent/child interaction
and communication
• To foster positive relationships

Long Term Goals

• To increase independence from private and public assistance
• To increase employment
• To enhance financial stability
• To intensify community/social activism
• To provide information/resources to reduce illiteracy.

The families will be provided with 14 consecutive weeks of comprehensive life skills training to support them in their working, parenting, and overall day-to-day needs. Twenty-four families will graduate over the course of the program year. These families will be matched into mentor/mentee teams. The program will utilize a science-based model “Strengthening Multi-Ethnic Families and Communities.”

Mentee Goals

• Practical life skills
• Emotional healing
• Self-esteem enhancement

Mentor Goals

• Leadership
• Active listening
• Positive role modeling

You qualify if you:

• Have children or are a caregiver
• Live in DC
• Have financial hardships
• Receive community, government or public assistance
• Have a hard time getting a job.

For more information call:

Inma Iglesias Gaspar
Progam Coordinator
202.319.1239
mariai@layc-dc.org