单身妈妈坚强

订婚了 voices feature key initiatives in the region to educate community members about the developments and critical work underway in our region. 对于本月的专题, we talked with 单身妈妈坚强 Founding Executive Director, 塔拉泰勒, about the organization’s goals and vision. 继续往下读，了解更多.

Please provide a high-level overview of the organization.

Single-parent families are an underserved and at-risk population who, 不支持, may experience disastrous health and socioeconomic outcomes that can affect future generations and balloon already burdened social service systems. 通过早期干预, 获得支持系统, career advancement resources and innovative childcare solutions, 单身妈妈坚强 dismantles the greatest barriers to single mothers’ success and ensures the health of these families. Our innovative blueprint deploys comprehensive resources that empower single-parent families, 成功改善结果.

单身妈妈坚强 (SMS) is a local nonprofit organization with a mission to empower single mothers and their children through enrichment, encouragement and educational programs. We improve outcomes for single-parent families by:

• Fostering connection: Having little to no support, the community aspect of SMS is one of the most important to single moms. At our 3-4 community events each month, our members find comfort in bonds built on their common experience.
• Increasing self-sufficiency and economic stability: SMS’s career advancement tools directly influence career success, from workshops to Pre-Employment Coaching and our free Career Clothing Closet.
• Overcoming the barrier of inaccessible childcare: Our EmpowerME Preschool & Childcare programs make quality preschool accessible by making it affordable, 即使你只有一份收入. Full-day childcare is also offered to school-age children during school breaks and closures.

How does your organization promote partnership and inclusion within the Greater Sacramento region?

As a long-term community resource, we collaborate with local crisis intervention programs, as the next step in support of at-risk families. We are proud to have reciprocal partnerships with over 20 regional family service organizations, creating direct connections when a local single mom has urgent needs, such as housing or food insecurity. 相反, when a single mother exits a crisis intervention program, we are their resource for long-term support.

What is your long-term vision for this organization? How do you imagine it will evolve over time?

After spending several years creating and solidifying 单身妈妈坚强’s programs and services, we expanded our physical space in late 2022. With these projects complete and the pandemic behind us, our goal now is to increase utilization of all of our programs and services, so we may support as many local single-parent families as possible. 作为一个相对年轻的非营利组织, we are proud to be serving over 800 local single mothers, but there are so many more to reach. Increased awareness of what our organization is and does will allow us to make the greatest impact. 另外, 我们希望能做到低成本, high-quality preschool and childcare programs even more accessible, 通过建立赋权学前教育 & Childcare locations within a 15-minute drive of every local single mom. In addition to our locations on Arden Way and at Antelope & I-80, we will add locations in the Racho Cordova or Rosemont area and Elk Grove or South Sacramento area to achieve this.

Is there anything you’d like the community to know about this project, or any ways they can get involved or support its success?

作为一个小公司(但正在成长)!), local nonprofit with a BIG mission, we cannot accomplish all we do without community support. We are always in need of volunteers, 来自我们的男性指导团队, a once-monthly evening commitment where positive male role models create sustained, healthy relationships with children of single moms, to one-time projects like gift wrapping for our Holiday Adopt-a-Family programs, 总有办法帮助你! And, of course, donations are crucial to program success.

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