The WORK It Project Organization
The WORK It Well Project and its team has a long history of mentoring, coaching, and enriching others with the tools to win. Together we set up an environment to help transform lives.
The WORK It Well team teaches and shares from experience, education, passion, and compassion. We have enjoyed collaborating, partnering, and serving others for over 25 years in all parts of the San Francisco Bay Area as well as other regions all over the world with our virtual platform and innovative projects.
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The Work It Well Project (WIP), is a 501 C 3 non-profit tax-exempt organization headquartered in Alameda County, CA, that prioritizes low-income, under-served and high-risk women, girls, youth and communities, prioritizing in all 9 counties of the bay area and in marginalized communities around the world.
The WORK It Well Project launched a fresh brand in 2019, in collaboration and partnership with a variety of credible organizations providing services that have helped many others prevent from falling through the cracks. After 25 years of service, The WIWP decided to re-brand in 2019 continuing to provide our clients with supportive services that help them replace barriers and develop their skills. The WORK It team teaches and shares from a place of experience, education, passion, and compassion. We enjoy collaborating, partnering, and serving others in all parts of the Bay Area, as well as other regions all over the world. Our services include housing assistance, entrepreneurial development, referral, resources, work experience opportunities, employment readiness, job placement, skills training, exploration, youth development, violence interruption, substance abuse, bullying, smart arts, distance learning, health, wellness education, virtual solutions, behavior health all through innovative programming, along with other wrap around services to individuals, organizations and groups. We implement and create critical innovative programming and services for under-served and vulnerable populations, as well as staff and leaders. We have a dedicated staff of part time volunteers and happy to create outreach opportunities, executive brand ambassadorship opportunities and special events.
The WORK It Well Project was founded by The Legendary Dr. Suga-T Stevens, AA, MA, BA, PHD, alongside a team of like-minded leaders. Dr. Stevens has served as an Executive Program Developer, CEO, Author, as well as a Master Transformation Beauty, Wellness, Life skills and a Multiple Streams Enterprise Vision Coach for many years. She shares valuable insight that serves as intervention, prevention and awareness in and around the music, arts, business and community industry. She has a large body of work as an actress and host as well as a Multi-Facet National & Multi-Platinum Gold Music Label, Performer, Film producer, Author and Influencer. She has recorded over 20 solo albums and 5 group albums in over 36 years, holding a historical, and iconic positioning and is passionate and dedicated as a servant leader, sharing her expertise, resources and influence to help others acquire healthy, wealthy, safe and inspired lives.
The WORK It Well Project launched a fresh brand in 2019, in collaboration and partnership with a variety of credible organizations providing services that have helped many others prevent from falling through the cracks. After 25 years of service, The WIWP decided to re-brand in 2019 continuing to provide our clients with supportive services that help them replace barriers and develop their skills. The WORK It team teaches and shares from a place of experience, education, passion, and compassion. We enjoy collaborating, partnering, and serving others in all parts of the Bay Area, as well as other regions all over the world. Our services include housing assistance, entrepreneurial development, referral, resources, work experience opportunities, employment readiness, job placement, skills training, exploration, youth development, violence interruption, substance abuse, bullying, smart arts, distance learning, health, wellness education, virtual solutions, behavior health all through innovative programming, along with other wrap around services to individuals, organizations and groups. We implement and create critical innovative programming and services for under-served and vulnerable populations, as well as staff and leaders. We have a dedicated staff of part time volunteers and happy to create outreach opportunities, executive brand ambassadorship opportunities and special events.
The WORK It Well Project was founded by The Legendary Dr. Suga-T Stevens, AA, MA, BA, PHD, alongside a team of like-minded leaders. Dr. Stevens has served as an Executive Program Developer, CEO, Author, as well as a Master Transformation Beauty, Wellness, Life skills and a Multiple Streams Enterprise Vision Coach for many years. She shares valuable insight that serves as intervention, prevention and awareness in and around the music, arts, business and community industry. She has a large body of work as an actress and host as well as a Multi-Facet National & Multi-Platinum Gold Music Label, Performer, Film producer, Author and Influencer. She has recorded over 20 solo albums and 5 group albums in over 36 years, holding a historical, and iconic positioning and is passionate and dedicated as a servant leader, sharing her expertise, resources and influence to help others acquire healthy, wealthy, safe and inspired lives.
OUR TEAM
Testimonials
“Our Grandmothers In Tech & Entrepreneurship Living Well (GITTY) has provided direct services to young and old grandmothers. One woman who went through our program returned to the workforce after being a stay-at-home mom and grandmother. We gave her the job training and professional development skills, including technology skill-building, to be relevant for today's modern workplace.” Many moms and grandmothers are now placed in IT Tech Careers making a salary that breaks generation barriers.
“A young lady in a domestic violence relationship was referred to us by one of our partners and enrolled in the Save Our Sisters program in a dark time of her life. The wrap around services identified an opportunity with a partnership that provides housing and trauma support for violence victims. She was able to move away from the risky work she had been doing in adult entertainment and gain a healthy career. In the process she became stable so that she was able to obtain full custody of her son.”
“One low-income woman whose only income was from Social Security benefits wanted to transition into the workforce but had little work experience. Through our employment training partnerships, she was packaged with work experience opportunities and gained new skills and confidence. We both made unified effort to provide a career opportunity that doubled her income within the same year.”
“A housing-insecure couple was living in their car through the Covid-19 pandemic when they enrolled in our program for our wrap around services. We referred them to one of our partner agencies that can assist the wife in pursuit of obtaining Social Security benefits, making sure that she was able to get the public assistance that she desperately needed. They also helped her husband secure consistent income by placing him in a temporary job opportunity until we identified an employee partnership in his credentialed career. Additionally, they were placed in housing paid for through our partnering agencies and are now able to sustain on their own.”
“A client was headed on the track of taking an education scholarship for granted. He was allowing his love for the arts to override his ability to take on the scholarship and apply it to education and the usage of arts as a part of an occupational skill. Once he came through our program, we were able to introduce other opportunities to him in the field of Art Therapy that he could use as a career option to help change lives, use his arts and make a dynamic salary.”
“Our Grandmothers In Tech & Entrepreneurship Living Well (GITTY) has provided direct services to young and old grandmothers. One woman who went through our program returned to the workforce after being a stay-at-home mom and grandmother. We gave her the job training and professional development skills, including technology skill-building, to be relevant for today’s modern workplace.” Many moms and grandmothers are now placed in IT Tech Careers making a salary that breaks generation barriers.”
“Through the Aumazing Parents, a program designed for families with children on the spectrum, we support them through our wrap around services. One year we raised enough money to purchase a special technology for a young child with autism that support his cognitive development.”
“One single mother enrolled in our Aumazing Parents Program with a severely affected child on the autism spectrum that needs one-on-one care 24/7. We gave her a scholarship to our online virtual training module, a financial support stipend, and business coaching to help her build her own unique company. Now working independently at home, as a supplemental income, she can have the freedom, flexibility and financial stability to support her family, while being home with her severely affected child.”
“A client was headed on the track of taking an education scholarship for granted. He was allowing his love for the arts to override his ability to take on the scholarship and apply it to education and the usage of arts as a part of an occupational skill. Once he came through our program, we were able to introduce other opportunities to him in the field of Art Therapy that he could use as a career option to help change lives, use his arts and make a dynamic salary.”
The WIP Team
Shanetria Frazier
Board Member-Chair |
Marie Daniels
Board Member-Treasurer |
Tee Stevens
Board Member-Executive Director |
Tapatha Smith
Support Staff- Empowerment Coach |
Dr. Vee Lowery
Support Staff- Empowerment Coach |
Nae Coleman
Support Staff-Admin; Management Support |
WHAT WE DO
We Help Keep You From Falling Through The Cracks
The Work it Well Project’s trainings, life, career and wellness support services has helped keep people and partners from falling through the cracks. Our experienced team of over 27 years has a culture competent and innovative approach. We serve with confidence and from a place of experience, education and compassion. Our distance learning platform has been a powerful virtual solution for our clients, staff and our partners. This has allowed us to collaborate on a national, regional and local level. We hope to help decrease generational poverty, trauma, health imperatives and environmental issues. Although we have presented services to the community for over the past 25 years, our recent re-branding of The WORK It Well Project has been a great new start for our team, our partners and our clients. In the past 4 years, we have already served over 20,000 clients with innovative services that help them replace barriers, build resistance, career explore, increase their skills, stay motivated, along with wrap around support, distance learning and innovative partnerships. Your support helps us expand our initiatives and programming reach.
Who We Are
The WIP History
For over 25 years we have been serving individuals, groups and organizations with programs, wrap around support, staff development, advocacy, case management, special projects, and other innovative services. We enjoy helping businesses, organizations, individuals, and communities thrive. |
Who We Serve?
Communities, Organizations, Individuals And Groups
The Work It Well Project serve’s communities, organizations, individuals and groups, prioritizing all 9 counties in The San Francisco Bay Area. There are over 250,000 low income homes in the bay area, and we are passionate about serving those with barriers, those in marginalized communities, along with underrepresented and underserved populations. This includes domestic violence and trafficking victims, families of children with ASD on the Autism Spectrum, low income families, veterans, displaced workers, re-entry community and more (prioritizing women). Our distance learning platform and innovative programing allows us to reach beyond the bay without any territorial limitations. In the past 2 years, we have already served over 10,000 clients with innovative services, vocational training, and wrap around support, distance learning, and employment placement, along with establishing a variety of valuable partnerships.