
Case Study: Freedom a la Cart
We teamed up with Tiggett & Co. to build a unique eight-part leadership curriculum for our workforce readiness clients—survivors of human trafficking. For many of them, this is their first step into the workforce. With this new program, designed by Tonya and her team, our clients are learning essential power skills like building confidence, communication, and interviewing. It’s giving them a solid foundation, a growth mindset, and the tools they need to succeed. We’re incredibly grateful for Tiggett & Co.’s support and commitment to empowering our clients on this journey.
– Paula Haines,
CEO & Founder,
Freedom a la Cart
Working with
Freedom a la Cart
1 / The Program Need
Freedom a la Cart was seeking a customized, multi-week leadership and career readiness program to help transition their female clients who are survivors of human trafficking into gainful employment. A confidence boost to FALC clients for job interviews, showing up on-the-job with known strengths and claiming them, shifting to greater growth mindsets, and understanding of what effective leadership is and embodying that was the call to action for our Tiggett curriculum design team.
2 / The Program Importance
The Tiggett-donated curriculum will be licensed for monetization and distribution to other nonprofits by FALC so they can expand support to non-profits in any community. All proceeds will go back to FALC to continue their critical mission of helping survivors build lives of freedom and self-sufficiency.
3 / The Program at-a-Glance
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8 Modules, no extensive facilitator prep needed (see last bullet point).
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8 Handouts for each module, with group discussion and answer guide for facilitators.
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Condensed library of images for activities.
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Engaging, thought-provoking modules with interactive and reflective activities and handouts, and easy-to-use facilitation guides.
4 / Why Our Approach Works
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With minimal training from FALC, volunteers can step into the facilitation role and successfully engage with the clients.
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Volunteer facilitation helps board members, corporate partners, and FALC internal staff to get to know the clientele it serves in a deeper and meaningful way.
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Provides a unique way for above partners, volunteers, and staff to know how to better serve clients for employment preparation and placement.
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Places the participants (clients/survivors) in the “driver’s seat” (student-centered learning) to engage directly with facilitators through a discussion format the client participants conduct.
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Increases clients’ AND volunteer facilitators’ confidence, speaking skills, listening skills.
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The above skills for clients are transferrable to effective interviewing skills and leadership behaviors, thus empowering success and accountability.
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Prepares client participants to engage with others they are unfamiliar with from a place of strengths and confidence and simulates workplace conversations and interactions.
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Allows for vulnerability, trauma, and uncertainty to be addressed SAFELY and SUPPORTED during the program when surfacing.
5 / Our Give-Back
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Lasting connections and empowerment of women in Central Ohio community.
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159 Donated Hours over 18 months.
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An in-kind donation of over $30,000 in resources, time, and materials for a cause we care about because we believe every woman should have the right to live freely and to develop self-sufficiency.