The Women's Program offers the tools needed to positively change the course of residents' lives. The program includes weekly case management (budget and career counseling, job and housing search support, referrals) and house meetings, tutoring (by volunteers), and monthly recreational and social activities. This program is successful, in part, because rather than pushing mothers to take any job, the Women's Program Manager helps each woman develop a plan to prepare for and obtain work that provides sufficient income to support her family, empowering her to take greater responsibility for her own well being as well as her child(ren)'s.