Healthy Families Program -HFP

REFUGEE WELLBEING - Health Equity, Navigation & Promotion:

HFP provides an array of holistic services all aimed at empowering refugee women towards self-sufficiency, improve their functional English language, achieve emotional wellness, foster healthy relationships within the family (including reducing domestic violence and sexual assault); and build economic stability through job placement, financial literacy classes, civic engagement, and therapy. The program offers direct public benefits screening and assistance that meets immediate needs to stabilize families and victims including interpretation and translation in 12 different African languages. Translators are provided to all clients. AWC caseworkers and AWC community ambassadors help refugee women apply for benefits and related support services.

The program provides a safe space where refugee women come to be natured mentally, and physically for their well-being. We believe in a holistic approach to ensure that refugee women and youth have improved well-being and are able to be productive members of their families and the community. The program helps them increase their ability to navigate the system. We are “Stitching Lives Together” for our program participants and the community through our wrap-around services.

 

AWC Case worker assisting SNAP applican

Covid/Hardship Related Assistance

  • Human & Social Services Screening & Applications
  • Counseling & Therapy
  • Mental Health & Emotional Wellbeing
  • Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault - Advocacy, Awareness, & Prevention 
  • FGM/C Initiative & Resources
  • Financial Literacy
  • Outreach Events

How We Can Help You

  • Emergency Assistance - Utility and Rent
  • Low Income Home Energy Assistance (LIHEAP)
  • Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
  • Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
  • Child Care Assistance – (CAPS)
  • Medicaid
  • PeachCare for Kids
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How Can You Help Us

Help us reach our goal of raising 50,000 for our Healthy Families Program. AWC assisted over 8000 families between 2021 and 2022. Over 1,200 in 2021 avoid evictions and utility terminations due to the pandemic and job loss.

We can't do this lifesaving work without your continuous support.

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