Keep Hope Alive for Single Black Mothers

Hello patners,

Hope you are doing well. Happy new year to you and family. I want to quickly share update about our ongoing career focus program for African American students. Career Focused Program is a PCI Workforce development session designed basically for black and minority students within the Fox Valley Area to prepare for future career and opportunities. The program will provide students with relevant skills and training needed to capture the future opportunities that await them.

African American workers still face more hurdles to get a job, never mind a good one, than. They continue to face systematically higher unemployment rates, fewer job opportunities, lower pay, poorer benefits, and greater job instability. These persistent differences reflect systematic barriers to quality jobs, such as outright discrimination against African American workers,1 as well as occupational segregation—whereby African American workers often end up in lower-paid jobs than other groups. This is the main reason why we need to work with our black students to plan early for the future opportunities.

We have discovered a gap in career resource use in our schools. In the Appleton Area School District and other school districts, there are strong curricula dedicated to career program and workforce development. However, Black students rarely utilize these. Pointters Community Initiatives strives to fill this gap by creating a career focused program that is unique, productive and welcoming to our Black students.

How do we measure our progress ?

• Survey report from the program 
• Number of students signing up for the yearly program
• Percentage of black and minority students graduating from high schools
• Number of black and minority students going for career they like

Benefits of the Career Focused Program- CFG

• Students will earn to write resume building, and cover letters
• Students will learn interview skills and preparation for future employment
• Students receive needed support new entrepreneurial career path 
• Students will have required skills and training needed to get to the next career
• Students will have access to mentors and leaders for guidance

Impact data through last year program - Metrics NE Wisconsin. We conducted another one in October 27, 2022. Here are the impact assesment . 

• 300 participants
• 72% women 
• 98% People of Color
• 95% Satisfaction Score 

We hope you will continue to support us as we expand through to other districts in Wisconsin State. We are currenly planning for another one coming in March 2nd, 2023. We need a  lot of support to keep doing. Thank you for all your support and passion to change lives postively

Thanks 

Oladimeji Tomori

CEO - Pointters - tomori@pointters.org