International Wellness Network, Inc.
INTERNATIONAL WELLNESS NETWORK, INC.'S SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY'S ULTIMATE MISSION
IS TO RAISE UP SUCCESSFUL SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS IN
THE 21ST CENTURY WHOSE PURPOSE IS TO REDUCE "POVERTY
WITHIN LIMITED INCOME COMMUNITIES
IWN's Social Entrepreneurs Network and Community Organizing Training Model is designed to support the empowerment of a community whose families are experiencing disparities due to unemployment, health issues, threat of youth becoming part of gangs, early pregnancy and incarceration for both young men and women. IWN have taken a pledge to not focus on the "disparities" that are within communities of color/limited income families, we know its there. Our mission is to stay focused on what these same individuals can do for themselves with a little bit of help from their friends".
Our mission is to work from the old "African/Native American model of community" - the circular" approach which allows everyone the opportunity to give individuals a "hand up", rather than "hand outs". The "hand out" approach serves its purpose, however, it is documented in many researches done on communities, when people have the opportunity to "do for themselves", people have more sense of pride for themselves, their neighborhoods, family and community become more supportive of one another and thrives.
It is also known that when cities are basically supported by "social programs", with no feeling of hope of ever coming up from this "mentality of poverty", they continue to sink more and more into despair, which creates higher substance abuses, family violence, broken homes, more and more single parent homes, living in many cases - below the poverty line, increased gang activities, and desolate communities, which becomes a burden on everyone. Many times we turn away from these communities believing it is not our problem if we live in the suburbs of cities where the urban centers are in disarray or not in the country where poverty is. However, the tax dollars that are going toward social programming for these neighborhoods end up becoming more of a "tax burden" which affects everyone. It is not a "win/win" situation at all, everyone suffers to a degree. The "mentality of "if it is not broken, don't fix it", must have a new paradigm shift to - let's repair the cracks, before the levy breaks", such as the "Katrina travesty" or the bridge failure in Minnesota. We as a community no longer can see one portion of our enlarged community is safe, leaving other parts weak and vulnerable. We at International Wellness Network, Inc. believes that we must take a holistic approach to community development by looking at all of the community in creating a healthy society where all children can thrive.
-INTERNATIONAL MOTHERS' CLUB provides empowerment and support to limited income mothers/youth from all cultures and traditions traditional backgrounds. The following are supportive services available:
Our headquarter office is located at: 5301 Russell Avenue North, Ste. 209, Brooklyn Center, Minnesota.
-International Wellness Network, Inc. Toastmasters' Club, we help you to organize and build a Toastmasters' Club in your community. Toastmasters is an International Professional Public Speaking, non profit, volunteer organization established to help participants to become professional public speakers. IWN is an International Chartered organization with the ability to establish clubs across the globe. (We are the first group of African American women/women of color in Minnesota that is an Internationally Chartered Toastmasters Club)
-International Wellness Network, Inc. Job and Small Business Center
IWN work with people that are in employment transition, we assist you in your job search, as well as assist people in creating their own small business.
We are now inviting people that have a creative side to them, an organizer, enjoy customer service positions, skilled on computers, media and would like to stretch their wings as small business owners, we have available opportunity for you to join our "IWN Businesspeople & Professional Services Cooperative". This is a business development mission for individuals to jump start their revenue base as a small business owner/full or part time. Here you become part of our team of professionals that are available to the community small businesses, independent contractors, as well as corporations that need to utilize IWN Businesspeople and Professional Services Cooperative, to enhance their business as well as save money through contracting with IWN Businesspeople Cooperative.
IWN members receives ongoing training and development to insure success.
Through IWN GET Center (Garden of Eden Transformational Center), community have available to them health and wellness services from massage therapy to fitness and nutrition classes with certified fitness coaches and trainers.
International Young Black Wall Street, offers to our community youth, ages 6-18 years old the following services and activities:
-Etiquette classes: IWN 3r's to "Successful Community Interaction" training":
Learning Respectful Behavior
Resourceful Actions
-Remembering History: cultural history and sacrifice of elders before them, creating a space we now call America, where all can thrive.
-Family Gathering and Special Events, provide members to successfully plan, execute, ongoing family gatherings, that will draw communities together providing fun for all, and providing families to connect with youth from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds as our youth help to support the building of a "NATION OF CELEBRATIONS OF DIVERSITY IN PEACE".
-Young Wall Street Real Estate training provides youth with the opportunity to learn from the masters in home buying, selling and investing in real estate. We now have a diversity of cultures and there are many families where children are able to speak and understand English, living with parents able to speak limited or no English resulting in the families becoming high risk individuals for "predatory lending". This training will allow youth to empower their families with knowledge in the area of prevention.
-International Young Wall Street Toastmasters' Public Speaking Clubs
-Magnum Opus Youth Drama Consortium - Learning professional skills in the art form of theater, cable television production, voice, dancing, etc.
-Small Business Training provides its members with the opportunity to learn all of the fundamentals necessary in running a small business.
-Listening Circles-the goal of IWN Listening Circles is to permit all to "TELL THEIR STORIES". IWN's professionally facilitated Listening Circles - youth are invited to share what is in their imaginations and share their feelings with the circle participants. Our Listening Circles are designed not only to draw everyone into the community, but also to serve as a "bully proof" mechanism that will empower participants to celebrate their ONENESS as well as EMBRACE THE DIVERSITY OF CULTURES AND LIFESTYLES OF OTHERS creating a community of"WE-NESS" rather than a community of "THE OTHER" which fuels division and misunderstandings, stunting the growth of a community.
Arts and Music Appreciation program provides youth and their families with the opportunity to enlarge their awareness in a "global perspective that will assist them to using both sides of their brains". A diversity of art forms will be chosen by participants to learn from, i.e., music, painting, drawing, etc.