We serve women living in poverty or at great risk of falling into poverty.

Pave Your Path offers 1-1 coaching and workshops to help low-income women achieve economic self-sufficiency and emotional self-reliance. Through workshops ranging from financial wellness to mindfulness, we aim to give access to skill-building and resources not typically available to people living in poverty.  We are advocates and thought leaders working to improve policies impacting those experiencing poverty.

At Pave Your Path, we combine workshops on financial wellness, digital skill-building in our Learning Lab, and goal-oriented accountability partnering with trauma-sensitive yoga and mindfulness classes and group sessions about nervous-system regulation. Our wellness initiative is just as crucial for our participants—if not more—than building the hard skills needed for self-sufficiency. We aren’t interested in just inching people above the poverty line, we are about helping each person unlock their full potential. At PYP, we want to see our participants thrive—not just survive.

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We understand that poverty is not entirely about money. Research shows that the majority of people living in poverty also experience stress at toxic levels. Levels high enough to hamper the development of key cognitive abilities related to executive functioning, and which can adversely affect health for years to come. Simply stated, after a lifetime of conditioning, the stress of poverty changes your brain. It takes time and tools to learn how to reduce your daily stress.

Our trauma-sensitive approach takes into account the holistic growth of each person, with equal importance put on earning a living wage and reducing the daily suffering caused by chronic stress. From our personalized coaching program to our mindfulness and skill-builder workshops, PYP participants have access to extensive resources as they pave their path to self-sufficiency.

At PYP, we aren’t interested in just inching people above the poverty line and ‘checking a box’ – we are interested in helping each person reach their full potential. It is our belief that we need more than just compassion to help break the cycle of poverty. We understand the complex challenges facing women experiencing poverty and are prepared with relevant solutions.