ADULT LIFE TRAINING INC

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.

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

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.

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.