This has been such a crazy year! NextWork added day classes and a lot more clients. We had an active summer, with lots of trips to a wide variety of locations and events in the valley. Special Olympics partnered with us and sent a personal trainer to help us learn different ways to exercise. Some residents graduated and left our training apartments, and we made many new friends on our activity nights. We said goodbye to a long-time staff member, and brought in Felicia, our benefits specialist and outreach Queen! Felicia has tracked every day since she started in the spring, and our Facebook page is full of

We’ve been busy here at NextWork, and we’ve got another fun term coming up. Use the contact form and let us know if you want to register for classes. One “yellow” class is $250 for the term (April, May and June). If you sign up for one yellow class, you also can attend one orange group outing/ activity in addition to activity night.

Our first cohort (sometimes referred to as our test subjects) graduated! It was great to see people who have already moved out, and congratulate them on their hard work. Thank you to the parents who supported all of us as we embarked on this adventure to learn and grow together! And thanks to Kristy Chambers, our CEO, and all of our executives and our board for endless support of our program and students.

Peaches, Peaches, Peaches! We have a new partnership with the Utah Food Bank. They sent us a couple of boxes of peaches, and we taught the students how to preserve them. We also made peach and pepper sauce! Who knew that preserving fruit could be fun?