Life Learning Center to Host First 2024 Graduation Ceremony, March 9, 2024,
At Life Learning Center in Covington, KY.
Candidates who have completed Life Learning Center’s transformational skills program will be celebrated for their achievement.
COVINGTON, KY: On Saturday, March 9th, Life Learning Center (LLC) will host their first graduation ceremony of 2024, in which LLC Candidates officially gain “Member” status by completing the 12-week transformational skills program, Foundations for a Better Life, and gaining employment. The mission of Life Learning Center is to deliver an innovative holistic, integrated continuum of education and care to assist individuals overcome challenges and barriers, allowing them to step up to their highest potential. By helping people learn, secure, and sustain a better way of living through gainful employment, LLC is building a caring and serving community.
The Graduation ceremony will begin at 11:00am on the 9th of March and will take place at 20 West 18th St. Covington, KY 41011. Guests will witness a traditional graduation ceremony in which graduates don caps and gowns and are recognized with Pomp and Circumstance. Honored speakers at the event include representatives from the graduating class and volunteer and community partner, Lawrence Chappel from First Financial Bank.
Immediately following the ceremony will be a luncheon celebration. The event is open to the public and community members are encouraged to attend; however, the meal is reserved for only those individuals who RSVP in advance. RSVP’s can be made at https://forms.gle/hchLBxivGkc1UdsV7 and must be received by March 6th.
For many LLC graduates, this is the first time they have completed something meaningful, making the ceremony much more significant. To qualify for graduation, a Candidate must remain substance use free, maintain attendance, secure employment, and demonstrate a commitment to transformational change. Transformational change is defined as shifting attitudes and behaviors that have prevented an individual from achieving a life of purpose and self-sufficiency.
Since 2005, Life Learning Center has equipped hundreds of vulnerable and economically disadvantaged individuals with the necessary tools and resources to envision, achieve, and sustain a better future for themselves and their families. Life Learning Center’s transformational skills program, Foundations for a Better Life, focuses on addressing five domains of life: Physical, Financial, Spiritual, Emotional, and Relational. The curriculum assists low-income, unemployed, and underemployed individuals in identifying and overcoming the barriers they are facing. Through life skills training, career readiness programming, and support resources, LLC empowers individuals to transform the trajectory of their lives. Through their experience at Life Learning Center, individuals learn how to live life with purpose and intention, breaking negative cycles for themselves and their children.
Life Learning Center also serves as a focal point of resources for community-based recovery support; in 2021, Kentucky recognized LLC as a Recovery Community Center (RCC), utilizing grant dollars from the Kentucky Opioid Response Effort (KORE). Recovery Community Centers link individuals in recovery to diverse services, including employment support, mutual aid groups, counseling, and networking with others from the recovery community. As an RCC, Life Learning Center hosts 7 diversified recovery support meetings weekly. Saturday programming offers support and holistic care to the entire community through family-friendly and culturally inclusive activities. The graduation ceremony on March 9th is just one example of the family-friendly programming offered by LLC.
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About Life Learning Center
Life Learning Center is a non-profit organization established in 2006 to deliver a holistic integrated continuum of education and care facilitating transformational change, long term employment, and dignity for the “at risk” citizens of Northern Kentucky. Life Learning Center is located at 20 West 18th Street Covington, KY 41011. For more information, please visit www.lifelearningcenter.us or call (859) 431-0100.
