Thank you for supporting CLIMB Wyoming. Your contributions ensure a woman like Ashley will receive two weeks of counseling.

Ashley is a young mother of two sons — she needed some support and guidance after she had to leave her husband and could only find low-wage jobs to support her family. Through the counseling session that efforts like yours have funded, Ashley is working through the difficulties of her past that stopped her from finding success in her future. The support of counseling is helping her transition from who she thought she was into the woman and mom she always knew she could be. She says: “I had no idea how CLIMB Wyoming was going to change my life.”

With this kind of strength and support, Ashley now has a chance to continue her education, become an R.N., and be a strong role model for her boys.

Thank you, Charlotte and June, for giving women like Ashley the chance to hope for a better future.

Before participating in CLIMB Wyoming parenting classes, Christina admits that she yelled at her children. She felt that it was the best way to communicate with her children, and the more the situation escalated, the more she yelled. It made daily life in her household a challenge. She also realized that her employment and financial situations were creating immense stress in her life, and that her children were taking the brunt of it.

Thanks to the parenting class you provided, Rody, Ashley, Nick, and Ellen, Christina now has a completely new approach to raising her children — one that involves a stronger, healthier relationship and highly improved communication skills.

In fact, thanks to the CLIMB program, she now has a new job that creates better opportunities for her and her family.

Thanks for helping Christina improve her family!

Nicole felt that her life was like a roller coaster, and she wanted that to stop. She was scraping by each month in a job that wasn’t paying much at all, and a future without worry seemed like a far-away fantasy. She said, “My son was the only thing keeping me going when I wanted to give up!”

That changed once she joined the CLIMB Wyoming program. In fact, thanks to the parenting class you purchased, she has learned to have more patience with her son, which has drastically improved their home life. When this is coupled with the new stable career CLIMB helped her find, it completely changed Nicole’s life for the better – as well as for her son.

Thank you all for helping Nicole and her child!

Before participating in the CLIMB Wyoming program, Dee’s life was overwhelming and frustrating: the low-paying job she had couldn’t pay the bills, and the job itself was a difficult environment to face day-in and day-out. Even though she spent months trying to get better employment, it was to no avail. Dee found herself extremely stressed and depressed, with the feeling that her life would go nowhere.

At home, Dee is the proud mom to two amazing children. In addition to a caring, dog-loving, mechanically-minded son, she has a wonderful daughter, an extremely happy and strong “girly” girl. Her daughter, however, has hydrocephalus, which involves epilepsy, cerebral palsy, and mild mental retardation. For the last 18 years, Dee has worked tirelessly as a medical advocate for all of her daughter’s care including more than 40 surgeries. The role taught her to ask the tough questions and to learn as much as she could about the situation so that she could be the most educated, involved parent through these difficult times.

With the parenting class you provided, Dee learned that taking care of herself actually helps her be a better mom. Before CLIMB, every day took a huge toll on her physically and emotionally; leaving her feeling exhausted and hopeless.  Dee admitted that she didn’t have very much patience with her kids sometimes. “I was so concerned about everyone else’s needs that I didn’t take time to examine my own problems and they always seemed to grow into something much larger than they needed to be.  Everything felt so overwhelming because I didn’t have the energy to think clearly and do the right things, Dee said.  Through CLIMB’s parenting classes, Dee was able to learn an incredibly valuable lesson: that she needs to take care of herself in order to be a strong parent.

As for the future, Dee has a great job is excited to know have the opportunity to move into her own place, own a vehicle that runs well, and continue being an amazing mom to her two wonderful teenagers. “Right now, I know that I’m moving forward – and that’s a great place to go,” she said. “

Kandace felt like she was just getting by in life – and that meant no extras for her family and often no hope of finding a brighter future. She wanted a better life, so she decided to contact CLIMB Wyoming.

With the parenting class you provided, Kandace was able to learn an incredibly valuable lesson: that she needs to take care of herself in order to be a strong parent. Now that she knows she needs to be proud of herself, she sees a change in how the kids look at themselves as well as how they look at her.

With her new self-confidence, Kandance has become an even better mother and has also found the strength to move into a new healthcare career, which means she can provide even more for her family now. Thank you so much for your support of a complete parenting class for Kandace, it’s making a huge difference in her life!

When she joined the CLIMB Wyoming Program, Jacque knew that something was missing from her life. The day-to-day existence was simply draining, and it felt like a cycle of repetition from which she would never emerge.

But now there’s hope! With the counseling session you helped provide, Jacque has finally found someone who would listen to her and help give feedback and direction that has helped Jacque turn her life around completely. The sessions have helped strengthen Jacque’s role as a mother, and have provided her the courage to start a new career in the Information Technology field.

As Jacque said, “This is a great experience! I love the CLIMB Staff and all of my fellow CLIMB members.” Thank you so much Kristino for your support!

Lily would wake up every day with the same thoughts: How can I afford basics like gas and diapers? How can I move forward if I’m constantly feeling overwhelmed and hopeless? How can I be the best parent I know I can be with these thoughts weighing on me?

When Lily was accepted into the CLIMB Wyoming program, everything changed. In fact, the parenting class you provided has strengthened Lily’s relationship with her daughter immensely.

Now, she and her daughter look forward to a much brighter future full of opportunity!

Thank you, Chris and Emily, UBS, Mike and Suzanne, Elizabeth, Tracy, R, Marty and Lorraine and Sandra, for coming together to help Lily “get up every morning with a purpose”.

Ashley was living paycheck-to-paycheck, and even struggling to keep the hours she earned at her job. She needed a change — a change that would give her daughter a better future.

When she turned to CLIMB Wyoming, she had no idea it would change her life forever. In addition to the life skills training she experienced, she gained immense value from the parenting class that you all provided to her. With this program, she learned a great deal about her daughter’s behaviors and positive approaches to strengthen their bond.

Now, Ashley sees a wonderful future for her family: she has career aspirations beyond where the program took her, and she looks forward to being able to provide to her daughter. Thank you all so much for helping support Ashley and her daughter improve their lives!

Before joining the CLIMB Wyoming program, Melissa wasn’t able to find stable employment and was scraping by on the little bit of child support which would inconsistently arrive. She knew this was negatively impacting her kids as well, and she needed to make a change.

One of most helpful aspects of the CLIMB Wyoming program was the parenting class, which your donation has provided to her. She found immense value in knowing details of how to be a better mom to her family. In fact, Melissa credits her kids for motivating her to complete this program.

With the support of the CLIMB staff, Melissa now has the skills and confidence to find and keep a wonderful job to support her kids.

As she herself said, “CLIMB has pointed me in the direction I want to go!”

Simply put, Courtney hated her life. She felt it was going nowhere — she had no job, she didn’t have her own home, and she knew that she wasn’t setting a good example for her kids. Something had to change, and change soon.

When she was selected to participate in the CLIMB Wyoming program, it was as if a light had finally been turned on in her world.

Not only is Courtney now able to find solid employment and gain confidence in herself, she is able to become the parent she always knew she could be.

With the help you gave by providing parenting classes, Courtney now has the tools that give her the opportunity to be an amazing moms to two young boys. Thank you!