For the past five years, the WCA has enjoyed a strong collaboration with Create Common Good (CCG), a community non-profit organization that “uses food to change lives and build healthy communities.” Their food server job-training program has been instrumental in providing many of the WCA clients with an opportunity to hone new skills and to […]
Some years ago, I experienced an example of selfless giving that always brings special meaning to this time of the year. She was a member of our community who had goodness in her heart and who preferred to remain nameless. At Christmas time, she asked a friend to contact me and asked that I provide […]
Guest Contributor Deborah DeSousa, Certified Financial Educator/Coach Our financial education program is partnering with Girl Scouts of Silver Sage this year as part of their financial empowerment (K-12) program. Our goal is to provide financial education workshops and volunteer opportunities for Daisies, Brownies, Juniors, Cadettes, Seniors, and Ambassadors. We held our first workshop on October […]
As the result of a research project that began in the late seventies by a group examining community needs, domestic violence and the need to provide safe shelter in the Treasure Valley was underscored. Thus in 1980, the then Young Women’s Christian Association Crisis Center (became the Women’s and Children’s Alliance (WCA) in 1996) was […]
