The purpose of CWJC is to provide a Christian context, in which women in need are helped personally, emotionally, professionally, and spiritually to become self-sufficient and productive citizens and break the cycle of poverty in their generation.
16,000+ volunteer hours are estimated per year saving approximately $160,000 in salaries.
Current volunteer staff includes:
8 Board Members and a CWJC Graduate Advisor representing 4 denominations and 7 churches
25 Teachers representing 8 denominations and 18 churches
43 Active Mentors representing 6 denominations and 28 churches (this does not include past mentors who still periodically volunteer in one-way or another)
We are in our 31st session and have over 360 graduates who have complete the program.
CWJC’s employment success rate is at approximately 80% within 90 days after completion of the program – not including those working on their GED or attending college courses.
The average cost for one participant to attend a session of CWJC is approximately 2,500.00.
The projected cost of childcare for one year is this CWJC program is estimated between $20-30,000.00.
CWJC spends an estimated $1,000.00 per year for bus transportation and over $1,500 a year on gasoline and auto related expenses for participants to attend class or drive to work.
This site was highlighted in the original national CWJC promotional video along with one of our graduates who was the 2001 recipient of the Sybil Bentley Dove Endowment Scholarship sponsored through the National CWJC Office. This same graduate was the recipient of a scholarship for college through the Lubbock Women’s Soroptimist Club in 2001. We had a second graduate awarded the Sybil Bentley Dove award in 2004 making us the first and still only site to have two award winners.
Our site was awarded the Soroptimist International Making a Difference for Women award in the Civic Group Category in October 2002 and honored at the Marsha Sharp Making a Difference for Women Luncheon.
Our participant’s math and computer skills are almost nonexistent when they first enroll in our program and by graduation they are working with Office 2007 and accessing the Internet as they search for employment opportunities
Bible study is an intricate part of the program and CWJC encourages participants to become involved in a Christian congregation of her own choosing. The success rate is much greater in those participants who continuing their spiritual growth and become a part of a Christian church family.
In 1999, the Office of Communication for the Department of Human Services in Austin, TX named Lubbock’s Christian Women’s Job Corps as one of the four most successful faith based welfare-to-work programs in the state of Texas. A title we still carry with honor.
In 1999, the Federal government named CWJC as the best practiced welfare-to-work program in the country. There are currently over 150 sites across the country and three sites overseas.
We became a 501 (c) (3) non-profit ministry in June of 2004.
We moved into our very own facility in August 2007 in time to celebrate our 10th Anniversary.
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