Samantha Woodruff has had a passion to help others the same way she was helped through her own recovery process, but she wasn’t exactly sure how to make that happen. Sober for almost 5 years, Samantha knows what if feels like to be at the bottom, but she also...
As the summer of 2020 approached, things were looking grim for Kimberly Fisher. Unemployed due to COVID-19, life for her was uncertain. “I didn’t know what I was going to do in order to provide for myself,” said Kimberly. Although I was looking for...
Melissa enrolled in the WIOA Adult program in 2019. She worked full time earning $13.75 per hour while going to school full time. Melissa graduated from State Fair Community College in December with an Associate’s Degree in Nursing. She passed the State...
When I (Sundi Jo Graham) first met Dennis Gaffney, I asked him why he wanted to do something different with his life. Though I’d heard the answer from others many times before, through the tone of his voice and the pain in his eyes, I knew he meant it. “I want to be a...
Funding from the MO Works Together Grant was the opportunity Abby Helton of Lebanon, Mo., desperately needed. She successfully completed training to become a Certified Pet Groomer, allowing her to obtain her “dream job”. “It’s still pretty...
Jesse graduated high school from a small town in Missouri and very much wanted to work in the field of fitness. He came to the Lebanon Job Center and was enrolled in the Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act (WIOA) Out-of-School Youth Program in May of 2017. Jesse had...
