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Women In Need is saving lives daily.About Us
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Our primary mission is to help the mothers and fathers of Hawaii to get off drugs, off the streets, and out of abusive relationships, enabling them to parent their children and to lead stable, fulfilling lives. Serving approximately 350 clients per year, most lifelong victims of domestic violence and narcotics addiction, we do everything we can to break the generational cycles of hopelessness. Our primary focus is the homeless and low-income population but our work extends well past these groups.Our founder, Mary Scott-Lau, began teaching free classes in basic life skills to women who needed them in l996. Instruction soon expanded to anger management, domestic violence management, parenting, and computer and job readiness skills. Today, our classes are at the Women’s Community Correctional Center and the Family Resource Center in Wai’anae, as well as at spousal abuse centers, homeless shelters and residential substance abuse locations island wide. Our client base has extended to men and to the young people we teach at teen homeless shelters. Perhaps most importantly, we care for women in transition, our correctional half way houses on both O’ahu and Kaua’i serving as a haven for those moving from incarceration and into civilian life.
Families who come to WIN join our family. We have grown into a vast community made-up of those we’ve helped and inspired, and we’re proud that so many of our former clients now work with us on staff, or as volunteers, to assist in furthering our reach.