The Center for Self-Sufficiency, Inc. (CFSS) is a Milwaukee-based nonprofit organization. We provide family-strengthening programs to youth and adults to assist them in developing healthy life skills (attitudes and behaviors) and making choices that will have long-term positive effects on them, their family and society.
We offer programs and services such as:
- Healthy relationship education
- Teen pregnancy prevention education
- Case management
- Group and one-to-one mentoring
- Job development and employment services
- Fatherhood & Family Strengthening
- Youth Violence Prevention
Mission, Vision, Values & History
Mission
To provide a foundation for people to actualize their hope and motivation to access a good life.
Vision
Community revitalization through individual transformation.
Values
Flawless Integrity; Evolve Immediately; Realization of Power; Audacious Hope
History
CFSS was founded in 1997 as an intermediary consulting firm to strengthen nonprofit capacity, and subsequently incorporated as a nonprofit service delivery organization in 2005. CFSS has 19 years of experience in developing, operating and evaluating programs to strengthen families in the areas of teen pregnancy prevention, healthy relationship education, youth character development, mentoring, fatherhood, workforce development and reentry services. The majority of individuals served by CFSS are low-income African-American and Hispanic families living in the Greater Milwaukee Region and Southeastern Wisconsin.