Gain Skills For Success

EASY ACCESS SUPPORT

MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORTS

SENSE OF BELONGING

INCLUSIVITY & DIVERSITY

Emotional Life Skills Program

HopeStart Foundation’s Emotional Life Skills program goes beyond basic life skills, targeting essential soft skills key to personal and career success. Over a three-month period, this program is organized around three central developmental pillars:

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Communication

Learn positive expression, conflict resolution, and active listening to develop better relationships in life and your career.

Self Discovery

Explore who you are and what you value to help find and maintain a life and career you feel comfortable and thrive in.

Life Direction

Define your values and purpose, set and achieve meaningful goals together.

GAIN SKILLS FOR YOUR CAREER

Our program supports and gives people the self-awareness and confidence to find and maintain a career based on their values.

Increase Confidence
Connect with Community

We connect participants to needed community resources and we continue to support them with referrals and check-ins.

Get Motivated

We foster inclusion, nurture self-awareness, manage frustration, address negativity, and explore your personal values together.

We help you learn Emotional Life Skills, important soft skills that help you stay employed and do well with others.

Develop Soft Skills
Learn to Problem Solve

With group support, understand issues by addressing when, where, what, why, and how. Then brainstorm solutions together.

Reduce Isolation

Group programs help you feel a sense of belonging and inclusion in your community, helping you handle life's challenges.

What People Are Saying

Lynda M.

Former Client

"Before I came to the group, I was complacent and now my self esteem is stronger and I feel I am focused on what I want and have to do. With the group I felt I wasn't alone and that was a great help! Thank you Marsaye for helping to build my tools and let go of some of my anger."

Susan M.

Former Client

"I learned the value of being myself and to become aware of my beliefs and values and interests are. The support of the people was encouraging and the trust we developed allowed for honest thoughts and feeling so be brought up and explored. I came away with a better sense of who I am, what I want and how to go about achieving the things that are important to me."

Gayle H.

Former Client

"The people in the group, and Marsaye, who was terrific at motivating all of us - we just became a "family" and our pasts, our presents and our futures, we shared much of these. We learned about ourselves, our feelings, our abilities, re-assessing and relearning and regrouping our life skills."

Brad T.

Former Client

"Over the past while I have come to a much better understanding of some corrections and redirecting of my skills and qualities, so that I will be able to get the kind of work I want. With no doubt about, my getting to this point is because of the support, direction and help, I received from Marsaye."