(Photos Above: Johanna at work at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center. Celebrating at her Climb Wyoming commencement ceremony with her daughters.) When you’re working the “float pool” at a hospital, it means you experience something different every day, especially during a global pandemic. Johanna, who graduated from Climb Wyoming’s Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) program two years […]
Thank you to everyone who has reached out with concern for Climb Wyoming’s candidates, participants, graduates, and their families during the COVID-19 crisis. Our top priority right now is to continue to serve as a resource hub for moms and their children during this critical time of need. Climb’s model, developed over the past 35 years, […]
Across the state, grads are supervising fellow Climb moms who are new to the workforce, like Kyndal (left) and Melissa (right) at CPA Group of Laramie. Kaitlyn (left) manages Jessica (right) at Spring Wind Assisted Living. When Melissa, an office manager for CPA Group of Laramie, had an opening for an administrative assistant, she knew […]
Ashley specializes in cardiac telemetry (left) and recently graduated from nursing school with her family there to celebrate (right). When You Believe in a Single Mom’s Potential, She Will Break the Generational Chains of Poverty Ashley loves the human heart. Everything about it amazes her, even after almost a decade working on the cardiac unit […]
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“The incredibly dedicated and resourceful women in this CNA training showed up open and ready as they put in a lot of hard work to navigate barriers to their success and conquer past struggles. They have a strong drive to use this training as a career springboard, and one grad already has plans to enroll […]
Name: Sharon Number of Children: 4 Training: Commercial Driving (CDL) Current Occupation: Driver, Maxam US LLC “I will never forget getting my first paycheck after Climb. I jumped up and down! The next thing I did was go out and buy my daughters new shoes for school. Before, there just wasn’t enough money for school […]
As Wyoming faces a serious shortage in commercial drivers, Climb runs several CDL trainings. Watch what it takes to learn all the parts of a truck…and then hit the open road.
(Above: Climb participants show significant improvements in the skills we all need to survive daily life, including working memory: the ability to remember information and instructions.) Life is stressful. Every day, we are faced with decisions and tasks that come flying at us from all directions. Our brains respond like air traffic control, prioritizing what […]
(Above: Rachael with her “rig,” which has 18 wheels and can haul 80,000 pounds.) “You become a lot more aware of everything,” says Rachael of being in the driver’s seat of her large Peterbilt truck. Her “rig,” the vehicle she now drives after completing Climb’s Commercial Driving training this year, has 18 wheels and a […]
