Success Stories
Brighton Center at its very core is a community based agency. The people in our community and their needs are the driving force behind the work we do. Trends and fads will come and go, but Brighton Center will always provide services the community needs and wants. Every day, Brighton Center works to engage all members of the community from young children to seniors so that real change can become reality. Every one of them has a story worth sharing... the following are just a few.
Bobbi
My kids and I are proud graduates of Northern Kentucky Scholar House and Early Scholars Child Development Center!
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Amistat
I grew up without a mom, and I felt like I was always by myself or alone. When I graduated high school in 2017, I wasn’t thinking about my future. Eventually, I started looking for guidance and was connected to Brighton Center through a staff member who attended my church and thought Kentucky Career Center’s Young Adult Talent Development Services would be a good fit.
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Eli
Over the last six years, one of my biggest accomplishments has been overcoming my insecurities and making new friends. As a high school senior, I still have some of the same friends that I first made in sixth grade when I joined Brighton Center’s Youth Leadership Development (YLD) program.
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Gabi
Brighton Center gave me life and gave me a family. I am an alumni of the Brighton Recovery Center for Women. I graduated from the Recovery Center about nine years ago in 2012 after spending a little over a year in the program. Before coming to Brighton Center, I was dealing with the issues of my substance use disorder. I started using heroin when I was 16, and from 16 to 20, it was just that reoccurring cycle.
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Erica
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CENTER TABLE, Catering with a Purpose
Food Service Specialist
Brighton Recovery Center for Women Alumni
Emily
When we think about being a pre-teen or “tween” as some say, we think of being worried about having the latest tech, or what to wear to school the next day, or maybe just when the next day with no homework is. Unfortunately for me, I did not have the stereotypical struggles we think about at the age of 13.
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Iyeshia
When I first found Brighton Center I was working third shift, sometimes 12 hour days and had an inconsistent schedule at a nursing home. I was not being paid enough to make ends meet, and the job was very stressful. I was driving two hours every day, between getting my son to daycare, my daughter to school, myself to work, and then back to pick them up by the end of the day. I was exhausted and feeling stuck. I learned about Center for Employment Training (CET) and a weight was lifted, but how was I going to make it work?
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I am originally from a small town in Western Kentucky, and I never would have thought I would end up relocating to Northern Kentucky. About two years ago I was involved in a wreck. I was under the influence of meth, fell asleep at the wheel, and flipped my vehicle over a guard rail and into a creek.
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Jen
My name is Jen and today my life is nothing like it was just a few years ago. It all started with a simple prescription pain killer prescribed after a surgery and it turned into a full-blown addiction that took over my life.
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Siara
In April, my husband and I both lost the full-time jobs we had been at for over five years due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. As a family of five, with three sons ages 21, 16, and 13, we quickly used our emergency savings and were behind on bills and rent payments.
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