ASPSF ‘set me on the appropriate path,’ says alumna

When 19-year-old Jill Mills came upon she was pregnant, she was decided not to surrender on her faculty dream.

“I didn’t wish to be a statistic, one other single mother with no diploma,” stated the Sherwood native. “Fortunately, I discovered the Single Dad or mum Scholarship Fund. It was such a blessing as a result of I didn’t know the way I used to be going to make it work.”

Her scholarship test went towards automotive funds so she might drive to campus. This system’s workshops taught her monetary literacy expertise, which she handed on to her son Riley! In his teenagers, he began his personal shoe-shining and merchandising machine companies. 

Jill, in the meantime, obtained her bachelor’s diploma and married Tony, Riley’s dad, who owns a hair salon. She labored for a few years within the public faculty system as a household service supervisor. Now, she’s a stay-at-home mother and loves volunteering in the neighborhood.

“With out ASPSF, I don’t know what I might have carried out,” Jill stated. “It gave me a option to end faculty and set me on the appropriate path for the great life I’ve immediately.”

Riley got here alongside when Jill was a school sophomore. Because of ASPSF’s versatile scholarship, she might deal with the monetary pressure as a single father or mother scholar.

Right here’s Riley and Jill immediately (each left)! Jill and her husband had one other son, Reece, and the household offers again to ASPSF and different organizations.