Practical Guidance Combined with Emotional Support Advisors assist participants in designing and implementing a Self-Sufficiency Action Plan. Each individual’s unique experience and needs are addressed through this process. 

Personalized support and encouragement is critical to participants as they overcome discouragement or feelings of being overwhelmed. Advisors help participants solve problems and secure needed resources.

Supportive Classes
PS-S offers a 13-hour (3 session) self-esteem class that was developed by local service providers and therapists.  Many program participants provide feedback that this class has been life changing for them. 

Project Self-Sufficiency also offers a 10-hour (4 session) parenting class designed to focus on the special needs and challenges of single parents.

Advocacy
Advisors may assist participants to address difficulties with employers, landlords, academic institutions, immigration and other systems.

GOALS & OBJECTIVES

>Promote Self-Sufficiency
PS-S strives to build the capacity of families to become increasingly self-sufficient through comprehensive strategies that provide needed resources and opportunities for the following:

>Career Planning
High quality career planning and assessment services that encourage the selection of careers which are suitable to the individual and that pay a living wage.

>Education & Training
Education and training related to the chosen career and to life skills in general. Connections with potential employers and community members; able to open doors to meaningful employment.

>Remove Barriers
The removal of barriers to self-sufficiency.

>Promote Family Health
Facilitation of healthy family functioning.

>Encourage Self Advocacy
The empowerment of program participants to engage in self-advocacy.

>Prevent Poverty
Project Self-Sufficiency also seeks to prevent the continuation of poverty from generation to generation through a series of interventions that support and educate families while modeling successful behaviors by adults for children.