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Everywoman Opportunity Center, Inc. was incorporated in 1977 as a private not-for-profit corporation to help women achieve economic and personal self-sufficiency, and has been a regional employment service provider for over 30 years.Throughout its history, Everywoman has reached out to diverse communities to provide comprehensive employment-related services. Everywoman serves primarily women from a variety of economic backgrounds, including displaced homemakers, older women, single heads of households and public assistance beneficiaries.

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Currently, Everywoman administers the largest Displaced Homemaker Program in the United States. Piloted in 1977, our program has been replicated across the country and is the model for 22 centers in New York State.Since 1978, one-third of the individuals served in the Displaced Homemaker Program have been welfare recipients – many of whom are now working in unsubsidized jobs. But numbers tell a tiny part of Everywoman's story. Numbers do not speak to the changes that became possible in individual lives because a caring agency represented by a mission-driven staff believed in the women.

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All programs and services are designed to be holistic and address all the barriers a woman may face in seeking economic and personal self-sufficiency. These barriers may include a lack of access to childcare, lack of health insurance, transportation, and obsolete skills. The success of our programs is made possible in part by Everywoman's community linkages. Everywoman coordinates and cooperates extensively with other WNY service providers, including educational, training and employment providers. These linkages enable us to successfully and efficiently connect our participants to services critical to the completion of career/life plans.
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