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- Lifetrack is a community organization
that focuses on working directly with individuals, families,
and children to help build on their strengths,
and we focus on children and families and individuals
facing the greatest barriers in our community.
We provide employment and economic opportunity programming
as well as child and family healthy development.
- The counseling in Lifetracks has been amazing.
I mean, they've gone above and beyond.
You know, they come to the house to meet with the boys,
and even though they are coming for one and not the other,
they still involve the whole family.
I don't think it would have lasted this long
if I didn't have them working with me
as far as parenting skills and coping skills
and dealing with the children.
- Lifetrack supports our communities
by supporting our families and helping them to be
the best possible parent and helping the children
to be ready to learn,
ready to be successful in their own lives.
- Lifetrack will help people if they need it.
Low-income people, like for me, I didn't know where to turn to.
Well, Lee helped me,
'cause I can't read and spell that good.
And for me to fill out applications is hard.
We fill out applications together.
And I always think I'm a failure, and he says,
"There's no failure in here."
So they start looking for jobs for me where there was benefits,
and he got me with the YMCA in West St. Paul.
They're good people, and they're willing to go out of their way,
I think, to help people.
- And I was homeless with my granddaughter.
I was looking for a job for close to five years,
and one of the people there recommended maybe
that I would like to go to the industrial sewing program.
If it wasn't for Lifetrack, I probably never would have
got this job and never would have had the training
because they paid for the scholarship
and all the books at Dunwoody,
and then the director of Lifetrack,
she helped me with gas money and a lot--
and just encouragement all through it.
So yeah, I never would have made it without Lifetrack.
- Lifetrack transforms futures
by helping people find their future path.
So it puts hope within reach.
It allows them to get the appropriate tools,
skill sets.
It helps children get a great start in life,
so it truly is a pathway to the future for people.
- I think a lot of what we do here at Lifetrack
is almost giving people permission to hope again.
'Cause a lot of them haven't been hopeful
for a really long time.
- Lifetrack transforms futures by connecting with people,
individuals, families, and children,
by helping them to understand the resources
that they already have within them.
- Lifetrack putting hope in reach by helping people
through the transition,
transition especially for refugees
and immigrant new to the country.
Rather than they being on the public assistance,
help them to find a job and to be self-sufficient
and living American Dream, sending their kids to college,
buy a house, and save for their retirement.
- When they came to Lifetrack, they have nothing.
They have zero.
They know nothing about this country.
So we try to educate them,
how to find a job, how to stay on the job.
- I didn't have faith in a lot of counselors
or therapists throughout my own years, you know?
So it was really kind of hard,
but I knew I needed people in my corner.
- I want everyone think Lifetrack as friends
because when you meet friends, you feel free to share.
- When Lifetrack helps people, it's the full embrace,
so it's not only specific training,
but then it's follow-up,
and in the case of helping immigrants find work
in Southern Minnesota, they help them find apartments
and got them settled in, so Lifetrack truly cares
not only about helping people find jobs,
but making sure they retain their jobs as well.
- Lifetrack puts hope within reach for our clients
and families that we work with by helping them see beyond
the barriers that they've encountered in their lives,
to look to new resources and new opportunities
and develop the true lifelong skills
that will help them be successful.
- There are so many organizations
that ask for our time or money,
but what's truly unique about Lifetrack is,
they make a difference in our community,
and they have a fantastic return on investment,
and they can really drive impact in a measurable way.