About Women’s Bean Project

Our program offers wrap-around support to the women we hire. While women are in the program for 7 months, they receive on-the-job training as a production assistant in our food manufacturing business, career services, classroom work that focuses on a life skills and individualized case management. The impact of our program varies woman to woman. However, every woman that graduates our program moves into a career entry-level job that continues to stabilize her and her family’s life. Here is a brief numeric snapshot of our program: Over 1,000: The number of women we have served since 1989. 95: Percent of women who are employed one year after graduating from the program. This is based on the responses of women from a 12-month follow-up. 62: The average number of women we hire each year. In 2017, we shifted from hiring one cohort each year to hiring five cohorts of women every year. 60+: Number of hours each woman spends in our core curriculum of five classes: Financial Literacy, Computer Literacy, GED Coursework, Dress for Success and Group Therapeutic Workshops. Women also attend numerous additional programming courses you can read about in our program overview. 50+: Number of hours each woman receives in career services training, working with 1-on-1 with a job search coach and attending computer lab and other workshops. Weekly case management and job coaching. IMPACT ON OUR COMMUNITY Women’s Bean Project offers a viable way to address chronic unemployment, recidivism,Read their story