Gateway’s Displaced Homemaker program provides direct assistance to displaced homemakers who are on their way to becoming self-sufficient by reducing barriers to employment and aiding displaced homemakers in obtaining marketable career skills and secure employment.

Gateway Technical College provides resources to its displaced homemaker students, assisting them in pursuing their educational, career and employment goals.

What is a displaced homemaker?

A displaced homemaker is an individual, male or female, who has worked in the home for a number of years providing unpaid household services for family members; and who meets the following additional criteria:

Is either unemployed or underemployed, and

• has been dependent on the income of another household member but is no longer supported by such income, OR
• has been on public assistance but is no longer eligible for such assistance or may be terminated from such assistance, OR
• is the parent of one or more minor children supported by public assistance or spousal support but whose children are 16 to 18 years old.

Resources available through the Displaced Homemaker program:

Gateway offers many resources to a displaced homemaker. Gateway will guide you through six steps to academic and career success, or provide you with the direction to seek the proper community resource.

Career development

• Develop education and employment plan
• Set goals
• Provide occupational and educational information
• Provide information about Gateway’s non-traditional career program
• Provide information on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs

Career education and training

Case management services

• Refer you to college services
• Refer you to community-based services

Instructional workshops

• Set up professional networking
• Provide peer support
• Provide guest speakers

Job readiness

• Cover letters writing assistance
• Resume’ writing assistance
• Interviewing skills training

Placement Assistance

• Employment resources
• Job search assistance
• Labor market information
• Equal Employment Opportunity Laws