Community Action Set the Foundation for Bremer's Path to Success
Lakyn Bremer really doesn’t enjoy the spotlight. She puts her head down and just does what she can. But her path to business owner, nonprofit founder, and a Minnesota Valley Action Council (MVAC) board member, among other titles, makes it hard to ignore her story.
“People need to see how far you’ve come,” Kristie Rolling, Lakyn’s life coach, told her recently. “So, they can see there is hope.”
As a teenager with parents going through a challenging divorce, Lakyn struggled. She started acting out, her school grades plummeted, and eventually she latched onto drugs. It was then that MVAC Family Resource Coordinator Tammie Hested became involved.
Lakyn needed structure, a foundation to build upon, and people who believed in her despite the mistakes she had made. “At that point in my life, I might not have moved forward,” Lakyn said. “God put her right where I needed her the most.”
Hested brought Lakyn into the Community Action world through a youth workforce program and eventually helped the mother of two earn her general education diploma.
“It gave me so much,” Lakyn said of Community Action. “It gave me the guidance to be in the workforce. I had the ability, but Community Action helped me learn how to get there. The guiding start came from Community Action.”
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