Agency Details:

Suitably Attired

Suitably Attired is a non-profit organization that provides comprehensive services, at no cost, to low-income women seeking economic self-sufficiency through employment. Suitably Attired provides clients with interview or work appropriate attire, and offers individualized support, educational programming, and personal attention.

Description:
Like other professional clothing closets across the nation, our mission is based on the following premise: If a woman doesn't have a job, she can't afford career clothing. Yet, without appropriate attire for an interview, she can't get a job. It's a Catch-22. Suitably Attired opened in June of 2001 to solve that problem for low income women in the Toledo, Ohio area.

Clients are referred by a number of social service agencies, job readiness programs, and the welfare department. Our clients are primarily in their twenties and thirties; many are entering the job market for the first time; 95% are single mothers, many of whom have been abused, and many come from area shelters. We have recently opened our doors to those coming out of drug and alcohol treatment programs and the criminal justice system. Almost all of our clients report household incomes of less than $10,000. The need for our services is apparent.

Contact people:

Cindy Hansen, Program Director, (phone), (email) Deborah Batey, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (419) 472-4763

Address:

Web Site: http://www.tamohio.org/Suitably%20Attired/sa_index.htm

Last updated on July 8, 2009