Our main objective is to empower women with or without children who are experiencing domestic violence. They need and desire help to free themselves from this negative physical and emotional condition and empower themselves with the goal of continuing a safe life, prepared to enter the workforce.
Housing
- Through our shelters, we will provide a stable and safe place for women with or without children for a limited period of time. In the meantime, they will be preparing to move to a permanent location.
- With the help of the institution's social workers, women will receive assistance in applying for local, federal, and private housing programs. They will also receive information on how to remain in the programs once approved.
- Provide adequate space for children whose mothers are in our shelters, with violence-free, safe play areas and spaces with facilities for children with special needs.
- The shelters will include a safe environment to protect the physical and moral integrity of those under our protection. All information will be protected.
- Our facilities will not discriminate against any person in danger based on race, color, language, religion, or immigration status who needs our help.
Education
- The women under our care will participate in a continuing education program that will include ESL classes, computer and music courses, technical courses provided by the program or another institution, and higher education through universities.
- To develop women entrepreneurs capable of success in the workforce, developing the necessary skills through education and appropriate guidance.
- To create homework rooms so that children in the program can receive assistance with homework. To maintain a motivating educational environment in the areas of sports, music, arts, and holistic growth. In this way, children will be able to reduce the stress and moments of violence they have experienced.
- Through our chapel, activities to exalt God will be held every day. Volunteers will be available, and those who wish can enter a discipleship program, where they will learn about their religious identity.
- Make a Better Life will offer workshops in carpentry, cooking, hairdressing, and other areas where women participating in the program will develop job skills.
- Learn useful trades to create sources of income.
- Empowerment classes designed to boost participants' self-esteem. These classes will be taught by figures from our community who are examples of self-improvement. Guests will also include prominent figures whose lives are examples worth following, such as writers, artists, religious figures, athletes, and others.
Psychological
- Restore self-confidence and self-esteem. Each family in the program will receive therapy to understand the process of violence they experienced, acquire self-improvement techniques, and overcome trauma.
- Integrate psychologists, family therapists, and social workers into our support teams to work on the recovery of the families in the program until they are ready and prepared to enter the real world.
- Create volunteer support teams to motivate people in the program. These motivators can be from outside the institution, as well as people who are finishing their time at the shelter and want to help others.
Financial
- Make Its Better Life will rely on government funding, private donor funding, and funds from fundraising activities such as sales of items created in our workshops, trips, garage sales, food sales, concerts, and others.
- Women in the program will receive financial training on how to understand and manage money. They will be helped establish their own businesses and improve their credit.
- Families will create their own financial plan with the help of banks that will be working with us. For every peso saved, Make Its Better Life will donate another peso to the account. This will be used for those who are ready and prepared to finish their work at the shelter and move independently.