WOMAN LIKE ME
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Mission Statement
The mission of Woman Like Me is to disrupt the cycle of poverty for single mothers and their children in Louisiana by empowering single mothers to obtain knowledge and access resources necessary to be successful in today’s workforce. We plan to achieve this mission by providing support groups, knowledge, resources, job assistance, higher education guidance, training, and workshops to promote wellness and economic mobility. The mission of the Girl Like Me program is to engage and empower girls to embrace and love all aspects of their identities by nurturing and increasing self-awareness, self-worth, self-advocacy, and social change. We plan to achieve this by teaching them life skills, body positivity, fiscal literacy, cyberbullying prevention, and teen pregnancy prevention guidance and knowledge that gives them a voice that won’t be hushed by gender defining rules, thus, placing them in a place of self-acceptance and love.
About This Cause
Nationwide, Louisiana has the second highest rate of households led by single mothers, only under Mississippi. According to Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) 2019 data, 54.5% Louisiana births were to single mothers. And the CDC 2020 data shows 25.7% of those births were to teen mothers. Woman Like Me is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization created to focus on single mothers and adolescent girls. WLM assists single mothers with identifying what success looks like to them and helping them to attain it by providing knowledge and resources in the areas of life skills, financial literacy, health literacy, and work readiness training. We do this to help them attain their success thus enabling them to overcome economic hardship. WLM was founded by and has a board that consists of single mothers and former single mothers who have attained success at different levels. Through lived experiences these ladies know and understand the obstacles single mothers face when trying to balance school, employment, motherhood, and mental and physical health balance. This allows single mothers to see and build alliances with woman like them who have become successful. This shows them that they can be successful as well. In 2021, 16% of high school students were electronically bullied, including through texting, Instagram, Facebook, or other social media. During the past year female students were more likely than male students to be electronically bullied. CDC data also shows experiences of violence, mental health, and suicidal thoughts and behaviors worsened from 2011 to 2021. Mental health problems in youth often go hand-in-hand with other health and behavioral risks like increased risk of drug use, experiencing violence, and higher risk sexual behaviors that can lead to HIV, STDs, and unintended pregnancy. Adolescence is an important time for promoting health and preventing disease. For this reason, we also have a program called Girl Like Me that mentors girls and teaches them life skills, body positivity, fiscal literacy, cyberbullying prevention, trafficking prevention, teen pregnancy prevention, healthy self-care habits,, techniques to set and achieve realistic goals, and how to channel feelings and emotions into positive experiences this guidance and knowledge gives them a voice that won’t be hushed by gender defining rules, thus, placing them in a place of self-acceptance and love.