The program provides comprehensive services such as mentoring, job skills development, and affordable housing plans, to allow women in need to face and overcome the issues in front of them.
In Bristol County there are more than 30,000 women living below the poverty level. Some 50,000 women have not received a high school diploma. The average wait for affordable housing is 3 -7 years. The Ruth Project opened its Resource Center in March 2007 to provide direction, resources, and mentoring for women in need. Since opening, volunteers have placed job listings in the hands of unemployed single mothers and worked with women on developing sound job skills, including developing resumes and interviewing techniques. We have made available a directory of affordable housing and applications in the hands of women who were forced to leave abusive situations and have walked through the application process with women in need of affordable housing. Our directory of housing resources continues to grow, ranging from emergency shelters to rehabilitation programs, to transitional housing, and affordable housing. Volunteers have assisted women in returning back to school. We have worked together with area agencies so that women and children have received clothing and food. Recovery and restoration programs have helped women who struggle with addiction, affliction or abuse.