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A Woman with an issue needs to be Healed!

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Mission Statement
 Glory Village Community Development Corporation is a nonprofit organization. Our vision is to house, empower and transform the lives of women who are in transition. Our goal is to reach women 18 and up, who are being released from under DYFS care, ex-offender, including mothers with one or two children. We want them to become self sufficient through employment training, education and counseling. Ultimately, taking a city and transforming it into a village.

     ~ We are asking for your support to fulfill our vision.

 

The scarcity of safe, affordable housing is one of the biggest barriers to women’s successful adjustment in a community. These women end up going back to abusive and drug-using households because they don’t have any other real options. Some may not be able to return to a relative’s home. With out acceptable housing they cannot regain custody of children through family court.

Glory Village CDC’s goal is to empower women and change the lives of those who need it the most. According to the New Jersey Department of Corrections, Men and women leaving prison represent some of the neediest members of society. Two-thirds have no high school diploma, the average education level of state prison inmates is estimated to be sixth grade reading and slightly lower in math. Nearly half were earning less that $600 a month immediately prior to incarceration and their criminal records hinder both employability and earning capability. Less than 1/3 of the ex-offender population find jobs with in a year of their release.

Statistics show that our black people are suffering the most. Sixty-two percent of NJ Department of Corrections residents are Black, while 20% are white and 18% are Hispanic. Specifically in the Edna Mahan, female facility located in Clinton, NJ, 610 of the 1,102 inmates are Black. More than half of the female offender population is black and 26% of the entire population is 25 years old or younger.

Glory Village’s main focus is Newark, located in Essex County. Of the 21 NJ counties, ten (Atlantic, Bergen, Camden, Essex, Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Passaic and Union) account for 80% of Total Department of Corrections Residents. Essex County is the highest contributor with 16%.


*Essex County has the highest percentage of commitments.

*Essex and Camden Counties combined comprise roughly a third of total DOC commitments.

The Census in the United States for the year 2006 show that in Essex County the percentage of families with female householder, no husband present whose income in the past 12 month’s is below the poverty level is 24.1%. Within that same census for Essex County it showed that only 80% of 25 year olds have their high school graduate diploma.


  Please view the Statistic Charts


Providing a "Second Chance" to Women in Transition, the ex-offender, and the abused .
 


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