ADULT LIFE TRAINING INC

We want everyone to be able to support themselves with dignity, now and forever. In particular we focus on training Americans in Financial Literacy to have an emergency fund so they can wait out economic downturns for three to six months without financial stress, pay off all existing debt and refuse to accept new debt so their costs during financial hardship is more easily manageable, and investing properly for their children's post secondary education and employment and for their own retirement. We help people learn hard job skills in computer and other areas in cooperation with Federal, State, and local agencies so that they get and keep sustained un-subsidized employment. We have done this for 20 years as of February 2, 2023 and we are very effective.

Adult Life Training, Inc. offered training in several employment and life skills related areas:
1. Financial Literacy - using Internationally recognized professionally prepared financial literacy curricula in-person and via Zoom
2. Computer Job Skills - in-person computer job skills training with our own market job skills based curricula
3. WIN System - hard job skills training in cooperation with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development
4. Personal Responsibility and Time Management - in person training
5. Business English Literacy - in person using professional level business publications
6. On-demand individual tutoring
7. Technical Support and Technology Transfer for other area public charities and to help them adopt instructional approaches we have mastered

We use State DWD curriculum for hard job skills training, purchased Ramsey FPU curriculum for financial literacy training, and in-house developed curriculum for computer job skills training. Our in-person trainees are immersed in a working class environment to build confidence in getting and staying employed, and do job search and apply for jobs each week until they remain employed.

We have highly skilled technical human capital, and physical assets such as a multi-media meeting room, and a computer lab area. Total hardware capital is one server and nine workstations with BOTH Linux and Microsoft Windows 11 Pro, using LibreOffice, Microsoft Office 2019, and Microsoft Office 365, on top-of-the-line modern business grade computers.

We work together with State and local organizations to transfer winning techniques to other organizations to reduce duplication of services and increase impact through our communities. We are an all volunteer organization and all funds go directly to the work, not to "administrative" or other cost burden.

We have a high un-subsidized employment rate (33%-50%) based upon feedback from referring agencies, and in the last five years have seen our patrons pay off just under $1,000,000 in debt and increase their savings tens of thousands of dollars. During year 2020 we began conducting financial literacy training using Zoom teleconferencing. January 2022 through May 2023 we helped 652 families gain financial literacy skills. We also mentored two other local organizations in starting their own financial literacy classes, and assisted the Allen County Public Library and Fort Wayne Housing Authority with in-person on-site "Device Advice" individualized tutoring of their participants using tablets and mobile phones connected through the Federal ACP program.