“Learning to operate a forklift is very intimidating at first, so this group overcame a lot of fears during the training. Climb really pushed them to do things they hadn’t done before and didn’t think they could ever do.

“Climb helped me shape goals that I didn’t know I had and gave me skills I didn’t know I needed.”

— Tonja, Program Participant

These moms are highly motivated. They had no ‘quit’ in them. They realized that they don’t have to run away when things gets hard—they didn’t run away at Climb when it got hard, they stuck with it, and that will transfer to other areas of their lives. These women are going into some pretty intense jobs, so this stick-to-it attitude will pay off for them.”

— Lesha Thorvaldson, Casper Program Director

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