INDEPENDENCE. OPPORTUNITY. DIGNITY.
TNSB Institute teaches formerly incarcerated women how to turn their past mistakes into a trade.
“Each one of us can make a difference. Together we can make change.”
“My goal is to help women coming home from incarceration get their state board manicure and pedicure license so that they can become entrepreneurs.”
— Yolanda JohnsonCHANGE THE NARRATIVE.
According to the Prison Policy Initiative, 600,000 people make the transition from prison back into their communities each year and the unemployment rate is five times higher than for the general population.
For Black women, it is even higher.
A Prison Policy Initiative 2018 analysis showed that Black women who are former felons have an unemployment rate of 43.6% compared to 35.2% for Black men, 23.2% for white women and 18.4% for white men.
Tennessee ranks as one of the worst states for former felons to find jobs once they are released from prison, according to an analysis by Zippia.com, a job resource website.
THE FUTURE IS YOURS
THE NAIL AND SKIN BAR INSTITUTE
is a 501(C)(3) corporation, with a mission to help justice-involved women successfully re-enter their communities, by providing resources to address their immediate and specific needs.
“As part of our apprenticeship program we will offer women transportation to get to school and even housing. Those are two major obstacles once leaving prison.”TNSB APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM
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What People Are Saying“Yolanda is amazing!!!!! She continues the good fight!!!”
— Lisa Kranc“I knew she was a great businessperson and a great leader and somebody that I admired a lot.” “So I am one of the people that follows her around town wherever she goes. Me and my wife are going to make a contribution to her institute and wish other people would too because she is a wonderful person and has a great business and is now trying to help others..”
— Breen Bland“Doing great things, Yolanda! So proud of you!!”.
— Cory Prewitt“For our country and communities to thrive, equity and opportunities must be the cornerstones. Thank you, Yolanda for doing the work. This venture is indeed an example of excellence..”
— Lillie Mae Aromas
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt