September 2024 Uplifting Parents Newsletter

September 9, 2024

Back-to-School Bingo night was a hit with several UP families! They got to take home some prizes, school supplies, and even some school clothes to set them up for a successful year! 

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July 2024 Uplifting Parents Newsletter

July 1, 2024

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May 2024 Uplifting Parents Newsletter

May 16, 2024

Empowering single parents to break the cycle of poverty by providing meaningful support, resources, and a community of encouragement while pursuing higher education.

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Uplifting Parents Segment

July 14, 2022

Uplifting Parents is a CSS program dedicated to single parents working to earn their college degree! 

Thank you to Anya Mueller and the Connect With US segment that recently aired, highlighting one of our amazing graduating participants. 

If you missed out, watch the segment above!  You can also see our Uplifting Parents page to learn more about the program or apply.

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Uplifting Parents Celebrates 15 Graduates

May 27, 2022

The Uplifting Parents Program celebrates the graduation of 15 participants from its program. Each individual has worked diligently to get to graduation. We congratulate each graduate for all your hard work! 

Read more to see the graduates!

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15 Graduating from Uplifting Parents Program this Spring!

May 5, 2022

The Uplifting Parents program is excited to announce that it will graduate 15 participants from the program this spring. The participants will have obtained degrees from the following schools, including Bay Mills Community College, Black Hills State University, Oglala Lakota College, South Dakota State University, Western Dakota Tech, and University of South Dakota.

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UP graduate earns LPN degree

January 26, 2021

Congratulations to Kendallyn Wounded Face, an Uplifting Parent participant who earned her Licensed Practical Nursing degree from Western Dakota Tech in December 2020!

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19 UP moms graduate from college

June 29, 2020

When Tyresha Riquelmy-Yankton was first accepted into the Uplifting Parents Program (UP) in 2019, she was hesitant about the mentoring that she would be asked to do twice each month with an UP mentor.

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UPLIFTING PARENTS helps single parents succeed

March 6, 2020

UPLIFTING PARENTS helps single parents succeed: Applications close March 14

Determination. Hard work. And the support of her Uplifting Parents mentor.

Kaitlyn, the single mother of a 3-year-old toddler, credits those three ingredients with helping her earn a  psychology degree from Black Hills State University in December 2019.

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You were made to do HARD things

July 29, 2019

Shortly before she graduated from college this spring, Anna Haydock got the chance to paint an inspirational sign as a gift for her 2-year-old daughter.

Its message reads: Beautiful Girl, You were made to do HARD things, so BELIEVE in yourself

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Uplifting Parents Program participants like to have some fun too!

May 6, 2019

Earning a college degree as a single parent is hard work, so the Uplifting Parents Program likes to add some fun to the process with fantastic family activities planned and led by the program’s Peer UP Advisory Council.

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The Third Time’s a Charm for Uplifting Parent’s Participant Dani Hersrud’s College Success

February 7, 2019

Dani will graduate with a surgical technology degree from Western Dakota Technology in May, about 20 years after she first enrolled as a college student. Her second college experience came in 2011, following a stint as a U.S. Army medic, when she earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology, a degree that didn’t translate into a well-paying job with which to support her family.

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Uplifting Parents Program Changes Lives

July 31, 2018

Two years ago, Hollee Hook was facing a mid-life career change while grieving the death of her longtime partner and raising her 13-year old son, Ethan, by herself.

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