- So, they come to us with the skills, with the passion to succeed, and we just show them the path to success.

(gentle music) We started as the Albany Displaced Homemaker Program in 1988, we were an offshoot of the Schenectady Center.

Now we are one of 12 centers throughout New York State that help displaced homemakers.

But displaced homemaker is a woman in transition that has lost her source of support and needs to go back out to work to support the family.

So she's lost her source of support due to separation, divorce, widowed, single mom.

She could be married and her husband's not working or he could be retired or incarcerated.

The women that we work with, they've been out of the workforce for quite a number of years, could be 5, 10, 15, 20 years, but they just don't know how to find a job in today's economy.

- I had been in a relationship that I knew I had to leave for my own physical and emotional wellbeing.

So I left suddenly and moved here to the capital region.

I didn't have a network here, so when I found the work program, it was really a lifesaver for me to get myself ready to enter the job market here.

- [Elizabeth] One of the things that they first need is to learn how to find a job.

But when we find that the biggest hurdle that they have is the self-confidence.

They really come to us, they feel like they're alone, and they realize that they're not.

There are other women in the same situation, there are services out there to help them, and that we are there to support them on their career journey.

- [Laura] But I was very honored to be working here again when I accepted the job, I was really excited to be a part of the organization.

I love, if I had not become a student of work, I don't know if I would've found a job, because I'd been looking for a long time, for well over, you know, probably eight months.

I sent out resumes all the time.

I'm very grateful, very grateful for this program.

- [Announcer] With support from WDI, strengthening New York's workforce.

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