WHY WE EXIST
Total Victory provides foster care, supportive long-term housing, child care references, life-skills training and academic support to youth and young mothers seeking to create a better life for their family. We exist to empower, motivate and encourage youth and young mothers to complete high school, pursue higher education or a trade and obtain gainful employment while living in a supportive residential setting.
Total Victory will surround youth and young parents with love, guidance and hope for the future through the provision of spiritual, physical, emotional and economic empowerment.
Youth who live in extreme poverty experience a lack of equity and opportunity, and most of the services available lack the intensity and duration needed to change their life trajectories. Our residential‐based service model addresses the needs of this most vulnerable population, empowering them to move beyond their circumstances to become healthy, contributing citizens.
WHO NEEDS US
The child welfare system. We have success serving youth and young mothers that had the potential of entering the foster care system. Historically, 80% of the young parents served by Total Victory graduate from High School without subsequent pregnancies. These youth who graduate from our program achieve our long‐term outcomes at the same rate as their high school peers.
The education system. Our track record of closing the achievement gap, particularly for young parents, creates opportunity for education officials to invest outside the classroom and improve attendance, social‐emotional learning, and overall school success ‐ culminating in high school completion.
Programs specifically designed to address the intergenerational outcomes. We are impacting welfare dependence, College drop‐out, subsequent pregnancies, and delinquency prevention programs.
Total Victory is committed to young families facing the toughest challenges and have a desire to partner and an ability to secure anchor philanthropy.
OUR UNIQUE MODEL
Total Victory provides services that are geared towards encouraging the development of long-term self-sufficiency rather than towards meeting the short-term, crisis-orientated needs of young parents and their children. By helping youth and young mothers to achieve long-term goals, overcome problems such as rapid-repeat childbearing, long-term welfare dependency, educational deficiency, poor health issues and reports of child abuse and neglect should be diminished. In addition, participants will be prepared for and enter employment specific to their targeted career paths, thereby achieving their personal dreams and hopes despite the challenges of parenthood experiences.
We are unique in that our program offers long-term housing solutions for youth and young parents who are actively enrolled in high school, colleges or training programs. We will support youth and young mothers with housing for 3-5 years, until they age out of foster care, or complete their degree or training program. Once complete, graduates would have entered the workforce on a full-time basis and moving into permanent housing.
COMPETITORS OVERVIEW
While there are many programs for high‐risk youth and young single-parent households, there are very few programs that offer long‐term housing, individualized support, and comprehensive services for this vulnerable population. Of these, there are even fewer programs that deliver outcomes that break the cycle of poverty.
With its long‐term, support‐based approach, Total Victory is uniquely positioned to meet the needs of youth and single parent families who have encountered multiple barriers to success.