Tenderlove Community Center

The mission of TenderLove Community Center is to empower homeless and low-income populations to enhance self-supporting life through job training and a life skill curriculum. Our program impacts the community by showing disadvantaged women their worth and capabilities and empowering them to become self-sufficient and able to support and house themselves and their families after the completion of the TLCC program. We serve a highly vulnerable population that includes women who are survivors of domestic violence or recently incarcerated. 90% were homeless at program enrollment; 100% had incomes below the poverty level; 91 % had a high school education or less; 87% are heads of household; 42% of those had dependent children living with them. 63% are ethnic minorities. We serve a wide age range from 17 to 93 years of age; most are in their 40's. 97% of our graduates are in stable housing with at least 88% of the graduates self-supporting: either self-employed or in school.

The mission of TenderLove Community Center is to help homeless near homeless and low-income individuals achieve stable self-supporting lives for themselves and their families. We seek to break cycles of poverty and homelessness through programs that teach skills to enter or re-enter the job market after traumatic circumstances such as survival of domestic violence previous incarceration or homelessness. Our primary focus is to empower homeless and low-income individuals and their families to become financially self-supporting through job skills and life skills training.