Women Achieving Success (WAS) dba Families Achieving Success is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2016.
- OUR MISSION is to empower, educate and motivate parents and their children to become self-sufficient and successful, through life skills education and mental health awareness.
- OUR GOAL is to promote self-sufficiency, stability, mental wellness and resiliency in the entire family.
- OUR VISION is to break the cycle of poverty, homelessness, trauma and abuse.
Our organization focuses on 2 main pillars of service: life skills education and mental health awareness.
We provide comprehensive services to at-youth/at-promise youth and low-income families, we primarily serve African American and Latino families. We offer life skills education programs (including mentorship, character development, civic engagement, parenting programs and financial education.)