S.H.E Seeking Higher Employment
Connecting Women with Career Opportunities - Not Just Jobs!
At S.H.E Seeking Higher Employment we’re raising funds and promoting initiatives to serve the people who need them most. We believe in taking action with urgency in order to raise public awareness about some of the most pressing issues facing today’s society. Please join us by supporting our efforts to make a measurable difference in the lives of others.
S.H.E.
Seeking Higher Emplyoment
Here at S.H.E Seeking Higher Employment, we are a unique program for female returning citizens (a term used to refer to offenders being released from Incarceration) to the community of Northern Virginia. These are women while incarcerated, empowered themselves with career and technical education opportunities that were available to them. We want to connect them with Career opportunities, not just jobs.
Our Vision. Our Purpose. Our Approach.
Empowering women, returning citizens, and communities.
VISION. We see the value in everyone. We want to be a catalyst for positive change in the lives of female returning citizens and their communities.
PURPOSE. We aim to reduce recidivism, assist female returning citizens on the path to career success.
APPROACH. We empower our returning citizens through support, by removing barriers that hinder the smooth transition from incarceration to the workplace. We connect female returning citizens who prepared themselves for release with companies that will offer them career opportunities.
S.H.E. A Spotlight on our Team
Removes the Barriers, Connect, Pre-Employment Training Classes
Mary Cross
Integral part in the assistance of Removing Barriers
Lenita Seals
Reinforcing our Commitment to finding careers for the women we assist.
Delario Lindsey
Bridging the Gap. Building Community.
Founders
Helenia Bragg & Kelly Payne
Are the founders of S.H.E. Helenia a graduate of Piedmont Virginia Community College, and Darden Resilience Education. A speaker and Advocate of Friends of the Guest House, and a member of The Speaker's Bureau Community Family Life Services. Helenia is passionate about assisting female returning citizens who have prepared themselves for release, They have vocational and or higher education. Skills that prepared them for a career opportunity, and want to become a productive member of their community. By doing this Helenia believes that it will allow the returning citizen to build strong family bonds, and the women are less likely to recidivate. Kelly Payne who is featured on the cover of the website, is incarcerated due to alcoholism. Now finds herself in a position of recovery to give back to young women. Helenia & Kelly want to make sure that they are always paying it forward.
“One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy”