Fresh Start Workshops & Events

First Steps

First Steps is designed to help you identify and prioritize your needs. Provides information on Fresh Start services, resource, and an opportunity to create your own road map.

Mind Over Money, Master Your Debt

Financial Literacy Participants learn the sources of attitudes about money, how they influence how we handle finances, common money disorders and how to change money habits. Participants will also learn the major sources of debt and ways to master them, the four major debt management strategies, and how to reduce their debt.

Goal Setting

Life Skills: Personal Development Learn simple and easy ways to identify a goal and create a plan for accomplishing it. This is a great class to learn how to overcome past challenges that have held you back and to create a new specific goal in mind you’d like to achieve.

Comedores Compulsivos

La comida es necesaria para mantenerse con vida pero la persona que come compusivamente el exceso de alimento se convierte en una necesidad para poder enfrentar la vida. Por medio de este grupo enconrara apoyo para bajar de peso, mantenerse en el peso apropiado y tener buena salud. Con la disciplina apropiada usted encontrara la recuperación y evitara problemas de salud.

Mock Interviews

Career & Education This workshop will review tips & tricks to improve your interview and will include an interactive role play simulating an actual interview. Practice is the key to success and the more feedback you receive the better prepared you will be to showcase your skills and abilities.

Microsoft Excel Series

Pre-requisite: Beginning Microsoft Windows*. This 2-part series is great for beginners and more experienced users wanting to enhance their skill level. Upon completion of the course, you will receive a Certificate of Completion. $10 covers the full 2-day program. Please bring a thumb-drive with you. *If you feel your skills are sufficient to skip the pre-requisite, email jschaffer@fswf.org to register for an upcoming testing session. Pre-requisite will be waived upon successful completion of the test.

First Steps

First Steps is designed to help you identify and prioritize your needs. Provides information on Fresh Start services, resource, and an opportunity to create your own road map.

Developing Boundaries

Life Skills: Personal Development This in-depth workshop will help you identify healthy boundaries and the signs of unhealthy boundaries. We will discuss the emotional hooks that prevent us from setting boundaries in a relationship. Learn how to say “no,” how to set limits; and steps to improve your relationships with partners, family members, co-workers and friends.

Microsoft Excel Series

Pre-requisite: Beginning Microsoft Windows*. This 2-part series is great for beginners and more experienced users wanting to enhance their skill level. Upon completion of the course, you will receive a Certificate of Completion. $10 covers the full 2-day program. Please bring a thumb-drive with you. *If you feel your skills are sufficient to skip the pre-requisite, email jschaffer@fswf.org to register for an upcoming testing session. Pre-requisite will be waived upon successful completion of the test.

Yoga

Life Skills: Health & Wellness This is an introductory Yoga class suitable for all levels. You will learn how to find balance, alignment, and personal strength.

Positive Discipline & Guidance

Caregivers and parents learn how to use positive discipline techniques, build strong relationships with children, and communicate effectively.

Family Court Preparation and Q&A

Support Services: Family Law Support This Workshop covers the basics of family court. It discusses different legal papers, common mistakes, and how to handle your own appearance at trial.

Surviving Abuse

Support Services: Open Support Group Receive support, education and resources to be safe and heal from Family Violence.

Camino de Sanacion

Se parte de este grupo de apoyo que es seguro, confidencial y casual, donde podras compartir tus experiencias, aprender de otras mujeres y recivir apoyo emocional, por el cual podras trabajar en los efectos de la violencia domestica. Este grupo enseña los efectos del abuso en la victima, sus hijos, como crear relaciones de confianza, cuidado y como cultivar tu crecimiento personal.

First Steps

First Steps is designed to help you identify and prioritize your needs. Provides information on Fresh Start services, resource, and an opportunity to create your own road map.

Intro to Programs

Fresh Start offers a variety of programs to help you pursue your education and career goals. If you aren't sure what step to take first, or which program may be best for you, this brief session will inform you about the basics of Fresh Start's various programs. (Free)

Stress Relief

Life Skills: Personal Development Learn tools for how to manage the impacts of stress from day to day.

Intro to Programs

Fresh Start offers a variety of programs to help you pursue your education and career goals. If you aren't sure what step to take first, or which program may be best for you, this brief session will inform you about the basics of Fresh Start's various programs. (Free)

Mas Allas Del Abuso with New Life Center

Google Sheets

Pre-requisite: None. This beginning level workshop introduces you to the spreadsheet application offered as part of Google’s suite of productivity tools.

Healing Journey Support Group

Support Services: Open Support Group Join this safe, confidential, & casual group to share your experiences, learn from others, & receive emotional support as you work through the effects of domestic violence. This group teaches the effects of abuse on the victim & her children, how to create trusting, caring relationships, & how to cultivate personal growth.

First Steps

First Steps is designed to help you identify and prioritize your needs. Provides information on Fresh Start services, resource, and an opportunity to create your own road map.

Assertive Communication

Life Skills Assertive communication is the ability to speak and act in ways that naturally cause people to respond attentively and positively. Learn how to assert yourself in your professional and personal life.

Google Sheets

Pre-requisite: None. This beginning level workshop introduces you to the spreadsheet application offered as part of Google’s suite of productivity tools.

Investments: One Piece of Financial Planning

Financial Literacy Financial Planning covers 6 areas of concentration. Investment Management being 1 piece of the puzzle. Learn about the Stock and Bond Markets, Asset Allocation, Portfolio Diversification, Passive and Active Management, Retirement vehicle, Tax considerations, and much more!

Healing Journey Support Group

Support Services: Open Support Group Join this safe, confidential, & casual group to share your experiences, learn from others, & receive emotional support as you work through the effects of domestic violence. This group teaches the effects of abuse on the victim & her children, how to create trusting, caring relationships, & how to cultivate personal growth.

Comedores Compulsivos

La comida es necesaria para mantenerse con vida pero la persona que come compusivamente el exceso de alimento se convierte en una necesidad para poder enfrentar la vida. Por medio de este grupo enconrara apoyo para bajar de peso, mantenerse en el peso apropiado y tener buena salud. Con la disciplina apropiada usted encontrara la recuperación y evitara problemas de salud.