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WHAT DO WE DO?
1. Food programs
2. Self Reliance programs
3. Children’s self reliance training
4. Training and employment strategies
5. UsMoms Giveaways / "Wish List" program
1. FOOD PROGRAMS
FREE FOOD PROGRAM
Due to the sudden loss of our space used for sanitizing and storing the food bins, this program has
been temporarily suspended until we have moved into our own building.
Every week we provide free boxes of organic and other nutritious foods to single parent families
who have signed up and qualified for our program.
The core to this initiative is to provide efficient high-level nutrients to relieve and ultimately
reverse the negative side effects of chronic poor nutrition. This stage is paramount to preparing
the mind and body to have the capacity to learn, to perform and to develop properly in any age
group.
For more information and to see if you qualify please click here Free Food Boxes
THE GOOD FOOD BOX PROGRAM
Due to the sudden loss of our space used for sanitizing and storing the food bins, this program has
been temporarily suspended until we have moved into our own building.
This program works like a buyer’s club. We buy cases of high quality fresh fruits and vegetables at
wholesale prices and resell the products to our customers without a mark up. The only increase is
a $3.00 delivery charge to cover the costs of the culling, the separating, then packing the food
into individual customer bins and then delivering the bins to depots in various neighbourhoods.
Twice a month we offer a large box for $15.00 and/or a small box for $9.00. Reliable research
has shown that this program consistently saves the customer an average of 71% over the costs of
purchasing the same produce at retailers.
For more information please click here Good Food Box
2. SELF-RELIANCE PROGRAMS
When a family has sufficient nutrients in place, then it is possible for each family member to learn
the steps to take to get out of poverty permanently. The training begins with two 5-week
workshop series, which are provided to each parent for free.
THE WORK ETHICS COURSE
The work ethics course called "Gaining More Than A Job” teaches the fundamentals of becoming
a valued employee. This course is vital for setting the pathway for job retention. Becoming the
employers’ ideal employee by being reliable, focused, and able to prioritize tasks has meant these
parents will have the capacity to not become one of the working poor.” This course teaches the
rules of a prosperity based work habit. The parents who have taken this course have amazed all of
us with the difference it has meant in :
- 1. Their employability
2. Their capacity to cope with and develop relationships on the job.
3. Their capacity to increase their earning power.
4. The job security they have based on the employer’s perspective of their contribution.
5. Their understanding that it may take up to 3 years to build the stamina to retain a job.
The parents who take this course learn to understand their previous failures have usually
been because they did not understand or did not know what an employer expects, needs and
requires from an employee. This course can be taken as often as a parent needs to take it to
be able to grasp the nuances of being successful in the workplace. Most parents return to
take the course at least once. Many take it two or three times. The outcome is that when
the parents are ready to apply the principles to their daily work habits, their employers
become their greatest advocates.
- You can support this program by making a donation under the category called
- "General Donation" by clicking here.
THE “POWERFUL PARENTING” COURSE
The goal of this course is to empower the parents to be effective working single parents. The
focus of each workshop is to teach two vital concepts:
- 1. How to move yourself first, and then your child, from a punitive based parenting style
into consistently using a discipline based parenting style, which has been proven much more
effective at teaching children to grow up to be good citizens who are capable of being self-
reliant.
2. Teaching the parents how to encourage self-reliance in their children, so that when the
children become adults, they are not likely to return to poverty.
Initially this was a five week course. Then the parents asked to make it a ten week course.
Now the parents are requesting this course to be presented every week year round. We have
seen the parents and their children learn to thrive as human beings regardless of their
current circumstances.
and/or remain trustworthy, and to shun any form of negative lifestyle.
This course emphasizes these principles:
- 1. Poverty is not an excuse for poor parenting. Nor, can it become an excuse that allows the
children to get lost to the streets, substance abuse, crime, gangs and cyclic poverty.
2. Single parents may have more challenges, but no less of an obligation to provide a stable,
secure upbringing for their children. It can and is being done by many single parents
everyday, regardless of the hype that says otherwise.
3. Integrity and authenticity come from parents that are invested in their children enough to
ensure that hardships are intentionally used to define and build their children’s internal
strengths rather than weaken their resolve to do better than the previous generation.
4. Perspective is everything. Don’t teach your child to feel lessened by poverty or resentful
of the people who seem to have everything. And don’t allow your frustration to turn your
child into someone who will wreak havoc and harm onto society because you feel helpless to
change your circumstances.
5. Today you may be deep into poverty, but with the right understanding and
comprehension of knowing what you don’t know, you can and will naturally start rising out
of poverty because of the natural urge in all humans is to strive to be better or to have more.
6. You are less of a prisoner of poverty than you think you are. It is not knowing what it is
that you do not know, or not knowing that you don’t know what others know, that leads
you to believe there is no way out of poverty.
We have watched the incredible growth that springs from the parents as they learn these
principles. Many weary and worn parents have started to sparkle as productive and positive
parents who may still be poor, but are rich in their hope and practical life plans for getting
out of poverty over the next 3-5 years.
The parents soon learn that their children are an amazing source of support once they see their
parents willing to take on the task of learning to get out of poverty. Respect for each other
blossoms when the children realize that their parent is doing what it takes to surmount the
internal barriers to getting out of poverty. It is not long before both the parents and the children
realise they cannot wait on changes in the law or public opinion if they are truly intent on getting
out of poverty.
The parents learn that it is not a matter of "blaming the victim” when they accept the
responsibility of getting themselves out of poverty. Instead it is a fact that if they had the
knowledge they would have the wherewithal to get out. It is not about lacking ambition or
integrity. It is not about being lazy or worthless. It is about not having had the opportunity to
learn the very primary basics that others take for granted because they were never without the
input or subtle demonstrations of how to succeed in today’s society.
The parents learn that accepting help from UsMoms or other sources is not proof they are less or
weaker. It the help that most people get from their families and communities when they are
growing up. They learn it not about blaming anyone. It is not about their parents failures. It is
about accepting that today they have the opportunity to learn how to change their future forever.
When all the antagonism is thwarted with a practical inventory of what needs to be learned and
practised, the parents experience a definite rejuvenating clarity. This soon becomes a strong drive
to learn more and to learn it faster. That is why our parents have asked us to make the courses
continuous and available every week. The parents know that this will help them achieve
permanent self-reliance sooner.
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