Social enterprises are businesses that sell products or services to advance their mission.
The combined cost of a criminal conviction and a year of incarceration can exceed $70,000. Employment is key to breaking out of poverty and staying out of prison.
93% of these formerly chronically unemployed women are still employed a year later.
All graduates move on to jobs in the community.
Transcribed from Ashley’s graduation speech:
This place has made me grow and has made me confident and it has brought forth more goodness rather than badness, like my past. So I just wanna say thank you, guys, for giving me this opportunity. And Rocio, I know you’re hard on me, but maybe sometimes that’s just what I need to get stuff done. I appreciate that.
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