08-09 Annual Report.indd - Mile High United Way
08-09 Annual Report.indd - Mile High United Way
08-09 Annual Report.indd - Mile High United Way
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Adult Self Suffi ciency<br />
Th rough a program at<br />
the Denver Rescue<br />
Mission’s Champa<br />
House, Gabriella is<br />
working her way to<br />
self suffi ciency.<br />
Your support of <strong>Mile</strong> <strong>High</strong><br />
<strong>United</strong> <strong>Way</strong>’s Adult Self<br />
Suffi ciency Initiative is<br />
Gabriella Antalek says she and her fi ve-year-old daughter Bellamia are fi nally home.<br />
For years, Gabriella batt led drug and alcohol addiction. She was homeless and unable to<br />
take care of her children. Th en she became sober and found a second chance at life.<br />
adult self sufficiency initiative<br />
helping people like Gabriella<br />
every day by providing job<br />
training and workforce<br />
development, fi nancial<br />
education and savings programs<br />
and, through a collaboration<br />
with Denver’s Road<br />
Home, services for those<br />
who have or are experiencing<br />
homelessness.<br />
Low-income individuals and families are aff orded<br />
the opportunity to move toward economic self-suffi ciency.<br />
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