Life Empowerment provides education, community, and financial assistance to support Houstonians on their path out of poverty.
We empower our workshop graduates to secure housing, achieve stability, and move towards sustainability. Through our workshops and collaborative partnerships, we are able to attain these goals.
Getting Ahead in a Just Getting’ By World (GA) is a facilitated award-winning program in English and Spanish to help individuals build their own personal plan to escape poverty and create personal and community sustainability. GA curriculum includes:
This 5-month, online or in-person, program works with people who desire to make a change in their lives, are housed with at least some stable income, or in a mentorship, case management or other relational program with a support organization. Financial assistance is provided to support the process of change.
Youth for Getting Ahead is a facilitated program to help youth participants build resources, have self-sufficiency, and create sustainability in their lives.
Family Hope, a curriculum developed by Main Street Ministries’ volunteers and staff, is an extension of the GA program providing graduates with an additional four months of support to continue working on soft skills, developing resources, and reinforcing commitment and plans for change.
The Family Hope curriculum includes:
Main Street Ministries offers continued education for Life Empowerment graduates, to develop meaningful, supportive connections with peers in their community. The classes, which are often based around the interests and goals of alumni, typically include topics such as financial literacy, mental health tools, interviewing techniques, and more.
The goals of Staying Ahead and other Life Empowerment workshops are to:
We do not provide rent and utility assistance. Please visit Findhelp.org for information on resources in the Houston area and beyond.
You must first be connected with a partner agency that is already providing services to you (such as housing, employment, or case management). Once you become a client, they can submit a referral to Life Empowerment on your behalf.
