This is
HER
This is
HER
HER Mission
HER Resiliency Center (HER) supports all women, and serves young women ages 18-25, regardless of race, class, and background. HER encapsulates a multilateral, holistic, and individualized approach – which is needed when combating systemic barriers that lead to poverty, substance use, homelessness, and sexual exploitation. No two women are identical and HER recognizes recovery, healing, and empowerment is an individualized journey.
HER Vision
Change stems from challenging the status quo. We’re more than just an organization; we’re a movement—a striving force reshaping societal perceptions and expectations.
With unwavering determination, we’re accelerating a global shift where women emerge as indomitable catalysts to envision a transformative future. We’re establishing a new standard where every woman, regardless of background or circumstance, feels seen, heard, and supported in driving lasting change.
By echoing tales of triumph and valor, our disruptive yet effective approach is redefining the essence of female strength and resiliency. Every woman is empowered to reclaim her narrative, make her mark, and transform her life and the world around her.
HER Values
- Equality: Every woman who comes to HER is treated as a peer, not a “case.” HER acknowledges the inherent wisdom of each woman and seeks to highlight her strengths rather than focusing on deficits.
- Self-determination: Each young woman at HER makes choices for herself. HER provides guidance and coaching, and avoids the use of shame, coercion, or judgment.
- Healthy Boundaries: HER recognizes the importance of healthy limit-setting to demonstrate to the young women we serve effective boundaries and encourage independence over time.
- Use of Self: Everyone at HER shares stories from their own lived experience to enhance the relationship with the young women and provides examples of how to skillfully recover from hardship.
- Low-Barrier: Anyone can be a peer at HER, as long as she identifies as female, and is between the ages of 18 and 25 with a desire for a different life.
HER Programs
At HER Space, we stand as a beacon of hope and empowerment for women overcoming the challenges of human trafficking, drug addiction, and homelessness. Located in the heart of Fells Point, Baltimore, Maryland, HER Space is more than just a center; it’s a community where women support and uplift each other towards a brighter, self-sufficient future.
Roadmap to Success Program
We work with individuals through a customized 24-month program, starting with assessment and collaborative planning, moving to supported transitions, and going to independence and beyond. We mentor, provide support groups, and do coaching and workshops. From evaluation of choices for educational/vocational training and identification of realistic housing options to referral for mental health and substance abuse treatment and enrollment in Medicaid, SNAP, TANF, or WIC if appropriate, we get going. We move to actively participating in educational or vocational pursuits and building self-esteem and acquiring life skills. We arrive at planning for college or gainfully employed atleast 20 hours per week, living in transitional or permanent housing, maintaining involvement in mental health and/or substance abuse treatment, applying to appropriate housing placements/developing resources for independent housing, and HER Participants reaching their goals and engaging in relapse prevention.
HER Triple Crown Academy
Without education, living-wage jobs are scarce. Without housing, stability is impossible. Without reliable transportation, getting to work won’t happen. Without childcare, young single moms cannot work. Without consistent support, trauma survivors struggle to show up consistently. The goal of the program is to provide young women more positive choices and opportunities through a trauma-informed economic empowerment program. Participants of each cohort will:
- Complete an 8 week general construction pre-apprenticeship with on the job training
- Gain the soft skills to maintain employment
- Access therapeutic care to reduce trauma responses that can result in loss of employment
- Utilize one-to-one support (case management) and employment coaching for long-term success
- Work with a money management coach for financial literacy
- Enroll in a union apprenticeship program after completing the Triple Crown Academy’s pre-apprenticeship
Ultimately, the crown jewel of the Triple Crown Academy will be to offer stable housing with childcare for participants in the program. We support young women everyday that are still in the process of building their resilience and need more than a job. They need wraparound support to sustain employment, including stable housing and childcare.
Street Outreach
We engage everyone with handing out hygiene and safety packs, winter handwarmers, summer water bottles, and conversation to figure out whether an individual is trafficked or on their own and how to get them off the streets.