The People Empowering People program builds on strengths of limited-resource people, most of whom are parents, providing opportunities and resources for people to gain skills while they take greater control of their own lives. The program recognizes the unique gifts and capacities of each person and encourages participants to express their own issues and how they see them. The program emphasizes the connection between individual and community action. Individual change is encouraged in PEP through training sessions, trust-team building exercises and discussions.
PEP supports community action through participants' projects to change and improve community.
The program is conducted by a trained facilitator and guided by an advisory committee. The facilitator provides ten two-hour training sessions for the participants. Participants commit one year to the program. Program participants are teen parents already enrolled in the Teen Mentor Mom program. Participants are mothers of the children in the two elementary schools with the above characteristics.