Iowa Women in Trades: Apprenticeship Opportunity Network

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The Iowa Women in Trades Network (IWIT) links unemployed or underemployed Iowa women with opportunities to prepare for and enroll in registered apprentice programs in construction trades. The ultimate goal of this project is to build a pipeline to high-quality construction jobs for Iowa women.

Harvesting Our Potential: Training Women Farmers

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Through Harvesting Our Potential: Training Women Farmers, this program connects women who aspire to farm with a successful woman farmer as a mentor for critical on-farm experience, networking events, and business training, so they will be successful farmers.

Financial Literacy & Economic Stability

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The Financial Literacy & Economic Stability Program will provide graduates of Angel House with financial knowledge and resources to utilize once they leave the house to live on their own.

Next Step – Women’s Job Readiness Program

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ACCESS will offer Next Step, an employment readiness program to provide financial literacy education and support to survivors of domestic violence in Ames and surrounding communities.

Women Empowering Women

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Women Empowering Women will pair professional women with women preparing to rejoin the community following involvement in local or state correctional systems.

Survivors’ Economic Self-Sufficiency

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The Survivors’ Economic Self-Sufficiency Project will assist survivors of trauma with the skills and resources necessary to regain economic self-sufficiency.