We are celebrating an amazing young family this month, a mom with two children ages five and two. She has been in our program for almost a year. She came into the program humble and determined and has stayed patient and constant.
We helped her find a two bedroom apartment in North Minneapolis. She then devised a Housing Stability Plan, which led her on a new journey. She enrolled in Minneapolis Technical Community College, worked on her GED, and took a Servsafe class. Servsafe is an accredited food and beverage safety training and certificate program administered by the National Restaurant Association. She passed the test with flying colors. She looks forward to working in the food service industry in the future.
She is currently working for Minneapolis Public Schools as a custodian and she loves it. She is working full-time, making over $14. 50 an hour with benefits. Her children are excelling in school and in daycare. Avenues staff have introduced her to several things that she would normally not have had an opportunity to experience. She also plans to be a mentor and work in the community garden at Camden Avenues this summer.
She has told us several time's that if it wasn't for the Young Families Program she wouldn't be as far as she is. She says thank you so much for the program.
With her perseverance and hard work, she is now working on her credit and increasing her income in order to put in an application with Habitat for Humanity's First Home Buyers Program. All of us at Avenues wish her much success and blessing on her new future.
