Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Many people are not able to support themselves with dignity, especially in the COVID economic crisis. Prior to COVID 80% of Americans could not afford to miss one paycheck without having financial hardship, and with the deprivations and massive job loss caused by the government imposed COVID restrictions and political mechanizations in Washington D.C. job loss is extensive, debts are out of control, and when the moratorium on student loans, foreclosures, and rental evictions are lifted a third of more of Americans can find themselves homeless overnight. Before COVID many Americans were on food stamps and some were generational social dependents - their professional occupation is asking organizations to provide for them financially - now even more must have social support just to have food. This is not sustainable.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Senior Aides
Adult Life Training, Inc. offered training in several employment and life skills related areas:
1. Computer Job Skills
2. DWD WIN System
3. Financial Literacy
4. Personal Responsibility and Time Management
5. Business English Literacy
6. Individual tutoring
Public Internet Access
Provide public access to Internet using WiFi or workstations.
Financial Literacy
Nine week video and mentoring classes using purchased curriculum from Ramsey Solutions, "Financial Peace University". Provides a free year of Ramsey+ subscription and individual tutoring in Financial Literacy principals.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
number served
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Seniors, Economically disadvantaged people, Unemployed people, Domestic workers, Self-employed people
Related Program
Financial Literacy
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
1Q2022 has 37 served so far in January 2022. COVID has shut down in-person training until finds are raised to provide appropriate dividers between computers and ventilation equipment to meet OSHA rqmt
Number of hours of training
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people, Unemployed people
Related Program
Financial Literacy
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Decreasing
Context Notes
participants time hours taught
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
To holistically improve the lives of our community through training, mentor-ship, and example. We want everyone to be able to support themselves with dignity. 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 so they are not dependent upon public assistance or social security. We train generational social dependents and other displaced workers in working class culture and marketable job skills in cooperation with Federal, State, and local agencies so that they get and keep sustained un-subsidized employment. We have done this for 19 years as of February 2, 2021 and we are very effective.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Adult Life Training, Inc. offered training in several employment and life skills related areas:
1. Computer Job Skills - in-person with our own market job skills based curricula
2. DWD WIN System - in cooperation with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development
3. Financial Literacy - using purchased Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University curricula in-person and via Zoom
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 for other area public charities and to help them adopt instructional approaches we have mastered
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
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 and 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 10 Enterprise, using LibreOffice, Microsoft Office 2019, Microsoft Office 365, on modern business grade computers with six-core 3.5GHz processors, 8 gig RAM and 256G SSDs.
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 he work, not to "administrative" or other cost burden.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
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 over $600,000 in debt and increase their savings mend tens of thousands of dollars. During year 2020 the COVID restrictions shut down our in-person employment training and so we adapted and conducted financial literacy training using Zoom teleconferencing. In year 2020 we helped about the same number of people using Zoom as we had in the prior five years together, and had a slightly higher completion rate (17% vs 15%) in year 2020. We also mentored two other local organizations in starting their own financial literacy classes.
Next we need to develop effective youth financial literacy and employment curricula and find a way to help people who cannot use a computer sufficiently to participate via Zoom to replace in-person classes. To continue our good work in Financial Literacy we need to purchase another annual site license, and donations are needed.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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Who are the people you serve with your mission?
We serve anyone who comes to us and wants to learn. We do not discriminate. Frequently these are persons in great need who come through our articulations with Federal Programs and other local charities, whose procedures eliminate discrimination.
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How is your organization collecting feedback from the people you serve?
personal comments,
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals,
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What significant change resulted from feedback?
Manuals were changed to use more pictures as some are not English first language speakers or have difficulty reading.
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With whom is the organization sharing feedback?
Our staff, Our board,
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How has asking for feedback from the people you serve changed your relationship?
It empowers our patrons to direct the skills they learn in ways that they consider most important to them.
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We don’t use any of these practices,
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
sometimes people are reluctant to speak their mind,
Financials
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ADULT LIFE TRAINING INC
Board of directorsas of 02/22/2022
Mr. John Nash
Adult Life Training, Inc.
Term: 2020 - 2021
John Nash
Adult Life Training, Inc.
Philip Lock
SIRVA
Jolene Nash
Purdue Fort Wayne (Nursing Instructor)
Paula Echols
Citizen
John Nash 3rd
Fort Wayne Door
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? No -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
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Race & ethnicity
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Gender identity
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Disability
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.