Jeremiah Program Welcomes New Director
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Jeremiah program is known for its work moving families from poverty to prosperity.
According to the organization - more than 22- thousand female heads of households live in poverty with young children in southeast minnesota.
The jeremiah program is focused on helping those families get ahead.
Kimt news 3's annalise johnson joins us live with how the program is making important strides in rochester.
Lowerthird2line talent:annalise johnson ajohnson@kimt.com coverage you can count on katie - this is the rochester campus... one of six campuses nationwide - and one of four with a residential program.
The program welcomed 40 single mothers and their children to move in here last summer.
Jeremiah project-lvo-1 lowerthird2line:jeremiah program welcomes new executive director rochester, mn and now - jp rochester is welcoming a new executive director - ally hanten ebert.
She's a native minnesotan who will be moving here from iowa city in june.
The goal of the program is to empower families to get out of meet career and education milestones.
The moms are provided safe housing and childcare so that they can focus on building life skills.
Jeremiah project-lsot-1 lowerthird2line:ally hanten ebert executive director, jeremiah program rochester campus we ultimately want to work ourselves out of a job, right?
That's ultimately our goal.
We want to live in a world where programs like jeremiah program aren't needed because we don't have families living in generational poverty of the program's recent graduates... 100 percent can afford safe housing - and 88 percent of their children are performing above developmental benchmarks.
Live in rochester annalise johnson kimt news 3 thank you annalise.
According to the program... every one dollar invested in a jeremiah family returns up to four dollars to society.
This is because of program participants' decreased dependence on public assistance and an increase in graduates' taxable earnings.
Lowerthird2line talent:amy fleming amy.fleming@kimt.com