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Self-Sufficiency Calculator (2020)

In 2020, the Wyoming Women’s Foundation, with the support of the Wyoming Council for Women, launched a Self-Sufficiency Calculator to determine how much income is required to meet basic needs, with the amount varying by family composition and geographic location.

This tool can be used in a variety of ways—by clients of workforce and training programs seeking paths to self-sufficiency, by program managers to evaluate program effectiveness, and by policymakers and legislators seeking to create programs and pathways that lead to self-sufficiency for working families. The Wyoming Council for Women was proud to support this initiative. 

NACW Voices of Women in America

The Wyoming Council for Women participated in a national effort to capture the Voices of Women in America. The National Association for Commissions of Women (NACW) created a survey for women across the country to have the opportunity to share their challenges and barriers to addressing these challenges. The Wyoming Council for Women heavily promoted participation in the survey through posts on Facebook and by sending it out to groups/agencies/boards that are involved in women’s issues for dissemination. The outreach took place over a nine month period, from 2019 to 2020. NACW is compiling the answers into a report that will be issued in late 2020. The survey data will help NACW and WCW focus outreach projects on issues that matter most to women across the country and in the state of Wyoming.