Life Learning Center has received $2.7M in funding through the recently approved Education and Health Funding Bill, supporting the organization’s expansion efforts to deliver its life-saving Foundations for a Better Life curriculum to individuals across the Commonwealth of Kentucky who need it most. “This federal funding will help the Life Learning Center provide many Kentuckians with the resources they need to continue on their journey of recovery,” said Senator Mitch McConnell. “Throughout my time in the U.S. Senate, I have prioritized fighting the opioid and substance abuse epidemic that has so drastically affected Kentucky, and I’m proud to have helped secure funding for this organization that does such important work.”
Foundations for a Better Life is a 12-week curriculum designed to improve the lives of individuals caught in cycles of poverty, unemployment, incarceration, substance use disorder and hopelessness. The program serves the community in three distinct ways.
First, it provides comprehensive life-skills training across five essential domains: physical, emotional, financial, spiritual, and relationships. Second, the program offers career-readiness training paired with job placement based on participants’ interests and aptitudes. Finally, Life Learning Center provides critical care resources (food, clothing, transportation assistance, and housing stipends), so individuals can stabilize their lives and successfully reenter the workforce. Life Learning Center represents hope, opportunity, and lasting change for the individuals and families it serves.
“This funding represents a significant investment in the individuals, families and community we serve,” said President Alecia Webb-Edgington. “We are deeply grateful to Senator Mitch McConnell for his leadership and support in this endeavor. This will have a meaningful impact on underserved and unrepresented populations of people as they get back on their feet and into the workforce.”
Senator McConnell’s support for the funding reflects an ongoing commitment to economic growth, workforce development, and education in Kentucky.
“To best serve our candidates, our program must maintain financial sustainability. This funding recognizes the need for our program and the good work our staff continually strive to achieve. This funding will be multiplied exponentially as it is reincorporated into our surrounding communities via quality workforce development,” says Tony Josselyn, Vice President of Operations for Life Learning Center.
The funding was included as part of the broader annual spending legislation to fund essential programs and services for the upcoming fiscal year. For more information about Life Learning Center or the Foundations for a Better Life program, visit www.lifelearningcenter.us.
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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.
