Operations manager Rebecca Skilton said many of the women who come through the programme have children, and by supporting and advancing the mother, the intergenerational cycle which is often caused by or leads to persistent poverty, can be broken, resulting in a positive life change for the children.
Yeta, who has four children and a fifth due in a month, said having someone with a fresh view of life has given her confidence to take the next steps in her life.
"With Jacqui, she has been a mentor/ life coach/ big sister. The benefits I have gotten from RAW and Jacqui is that belief, that encouragement, that continuing and ongoing support, having someone there to say 'well done, you can do this'.
"It is a different mindset. I could have had those thoughts but it's 'no I can't do that'. So when someone else confirms it, it's a revelation. I didn't have the confidence to think that was possible."
She said she hadn't had much positive feedback from her family, but they have been her backbone in her life growing up.
"I came from a background of alcohol, so growing up in that, I think it is a mindset [of fear] that can come from shame. It is the fear of being judged. As dysfunctional as we were, we were still together."
Yeta said there have been times in her life where she has been doing "great", but after her third child she suffered from postnatal depression and post traumatic stress which lead to what Jacqui describes a breakdown.
"I flicked right back to my childhood and then I had to rebuild myself and who I really was and look at those challenges. That is where I felt I didn't know who I was anymore," Yeta said.
"RAW came up and that has been a process where Jacqui has helped me rediscover who I am, because I lost who I was."
Through RAW she has been able to bring back the excitement for life and figure out where she wants to go with her life to be financially independent.
"I'm at a point now where I am being reignited with my passions."
Recently Yeta finished a computer course to give her the skills to eventually be involved with Maori health and wellbeing. Another of her passions is personal training which she studied at Te Wananga o Aotearoa in 2002.
It was there Yeta noticed fear was something common among Maori women.
"There were so many Maori women who were too scared to walk into the gym because it was too overwhelming walking into a lot of Pakeha. That was the mindset when you have been brought up in an isolated community, in your own culture. It is all about the mind.
"I enjoyed exploring who I was as Maori (through Maori studies at Te Wananga) because I always dissed myself as Maori, because my experiences were just 'yuck', I didn't want to be one. When it came to the revelation of that's who I am, I wanted to embrace it and it's been a journey from there."
Mentors for RAW are from backgrounds completely differnt to those of the women they mentor.
The success of RAW has come from matching two women from polar opposite lives, where mentors have only known a life of success, positivity and capability - where anything is possible.
Jacqui became a RAW mentor because of her concern for the growing "rich and poor" gap.
"I thought if I can make the difference and help one woman, that is going to have a direct effect on her kids, and hopefully generations to come. It is such an easy model, I just was so excited, I got goose bumps about it."
Yeta and Jacqui will spend the next year planning while Yeta spends time with her new baby, but Jacqui said they will "hit the ground running" after that year.
"Yeta and I have discussed a lot of options in terms of her career. Her main goal is to be financially independent and have a fantastic life with her kids, and give them what they deserve. We will hit the ground running to get her a job which she loves and can give her financial freedom."