Creating meaningful change through communication and connection

(He / Him)

GIFT Graduate

"I learned how to affirm others, how to indentify my own strengths and how to best use them"

(She / Her)

Motivational Interviewing Training

(She / Her)

Motivational Interviewing Training

(She / Her)

GIFT graduate

“GIFT training is not only life changing but also a place of discovery.”

(She / Her)

Program Director, Chelsea Youth Access Center (CYAC) Youth Elemento

“It’s amazing, the GIFT training, it gives young adults hope for the future. That it truly is a GIFT”

(He / Him)

GIFT Graduate

“The GIFT training has helped me work on my resumes and cover letters, letter of recommendations. I am currently working to be a Certified Peer Specialist (CPS) and I really owe a lot to the GIFT training”

(She / Her)

Director of Peer Support Services

“Sending a young person to GIFT instantly connects them to other young people. I connected her to GIFT. She thanked me and said, It is exactly what I needed at exactly the right time, I needed to know that I had strengths. Now she’s working! It is a skills based training, with other people who have been through similar things. It (GIFT) helps you to become yourself. That’s what I love about it!”

(She / Her)

Program Director at Youthquake in Lowell

“This person, at first,.... they were inside their shells, …..going through GIFT helped them find their place in the world. Now they come to Youthquake weekly and our interacting with the other young adults at Youthquake and really having a great time.”

(She / Her)

GIFT graduate and Core Elements Training graduate / Peer Mentor at Wayside Youth and Family Support Netword

“GIFT helped me get my dream job. Now I’m doing what I wanted to do. Working with young adults and it’s what I always wanted.”

(She / Her)

Gift Graduate / Core Elements of Young Adult Peer Mentoring Training Graduate

"The [GIFT Training] helped me to further my communications skills, such as how to positively affirm others and share my comeback story"