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newlenoxpatriotdaily.com news<br />
the new lenox patriot | January 9, 2020 | 3<br />
ForeverU to find its first home in New Lenox<br />
Sean Hastings, Editor<br />
The “cute” idea ForeverU<br />
founder Ryan Hesslau,<br />
of Mokena, had seven years<br />
ago when he was 16 years<br />
old about empowering the<br />
youth to overcome adversity<br />
has gained traction over<br />
the last few years.<br />
It’s only going to get<br />
stronger in 2020 as ForeverU<br />
is planning to bring the<br />
organization’s first community<br />
empowerment center<br />
to New Lenox.<br />
Since ForeverU was<br />
founded, it has been focused<br />
on personal development<br />
programs, which included<br />
retreats, camps and<br />
after-school programs.<br />
The facility is intended<br />
to serve the entire Lincoln-<br />
Way community.<br />
Hesslau is always thinking<br />
about is scalability, as<br />
in how can he bundle all the<br />
programs together and see<br />
a central location feed into<br />
everything they do.<br />
“We finalized a really<br />
unique program model<br />
where we have a personal<br />
development retreat at<br />
Camp Manitoqua every<br />
fall, winter and spring,”<br />
Hesslau said. “That’s the<br />
first program we send a kid<br />
through.”<br />
The model for the retreat<br />
is that a student should not<br />
have to go back, though<br />
they can for a recharge.<br />
They are then integrated<br />
into ForeverU. The mentor<br />
they had during the retreat<br />
remains to be their mentor<br />
after. The volunteering program<br />
also will be looked at<br />
ForeverU founder Ryan Hesslau talks to a group of<br />
students attending a past retreat. Tyler minnesma<br />
as ForeverU’s college program.<br />
After attending the retreat,<br />
students unlock access<br />
to a personal development<br />
camp in July.<br />
“So if we encounter a<br />
parent, family or student<br />
that would benefit from<br />
our programming, we send<br />
them through the retreat,”<br />
Hesslau said. “They’ll learn<br />
a road map, safety plan and<br />
leave and be enrolled in an<br />
after-school program that<br />
connects them to a mentor<br />
and peer support group to<br />
help stay on track.”<br />
The new facility will especially<br />
help with that.<br />
It is meant to be a safe<br />
haven for the youth, grades<br />
7-12, and through it, ForeverU<br />
will offer life readiness<br />
programs and initiatives to<br />
destress them, excel as human<br />
beings, and prepare<br />
them for college and jobs. It<br />
is also intended to help find<br />
a balance between communities<br />
and youth behavioral<br />
health.<br />
“What we wanted to do<br />
last year is plug into this<br />
model for a centered location<br />
where many of these<br />
students can go after school<br />
hours for support and use it<br />
as a way to educate, equip<br />
and empower these kids,”<br />
Hesslau said.<br />
ForeverU has been able<br />
to do that. It would have<br />
been easy to give up for<br />
Hesslau early on, though.<br />
Only about four people,<br />
who were mostly<br />
his friends, showed up to<br />
his first event in the New<br />
Lenox Commons. So, for<br />
Hesslau, “it’s always been<br />
New Lenox.”<br />
Seeing it grow and the<br />
thought of it getting even<br />
bigger keeps him up at<br />
night.<br />
“I never thought I’d be<br />
in an office, even,” Hesslau<br />
said. “It’s the weirdest thing<br />
to see things manifest. I’m<br />
grateful.”<br />
Even when things get<br />
tough, he’s not going anywhere.<br />
“Once I start looking<br />
at these kids, I see them<br />
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