Our primary organizational goals and accompanying objectives are to build the capacity of families to become increasingly self-sufficient through comprehensive strategies that provide needed resources and opportunities for1) high quality career planning and assessment services that encourage the selection of careers which are suitable to the individual and that pay a living wage;2) education and training related to the chosen career and to life skills in general;3) connections with potential employers and community members able to open doors to meaningful employment;4) the removal of barriers to self-sufficiency;5) facilitation of healthy family functioning; and6) the empowerment of program participants to engage in self-advocacy.Project Self-Sufficiency also seeks to prevent the continuation of poverty from generation to generation through a series of interventions that support and educate families while modeling successful behaviors by adults for children.