Empower by Example

Empower By Example

Episode 2 - Ashley Moorefield, Serenity Living Transitional Home

https://www.slth.org

Ashley and Shawn Moorefield started a mentorship program in 2007 that intentionally brought youth from their community together to work on homework and talk about difficulties these young people were facing in school and throughout their community. Over time the Moorefields discovered that some of the young people they served were at risk for homelessness. Through a CRAZY (Ashley's words, not mine) time of moving out of their own house and relocating her own family with young children in order to house these young people into their family's home, their official non profit was born.

SLTH is a transitional home was founded in 2017 for homeless girls and young women who are transitioning out of foster care located in East Liberty, Pittsburgh. They serve ages 18-23 because Ashley found that most programs serve youth under the age of 18, or adults who have a legal situation where they have been mandated to a program through the courts. The young women can stay at SLTH for up to a year and their plans for achieving sustainable, well rounded lives.

Ashley and Shawn have integrated service into their family's every day reality. Her son creates care packages for the homeless, and he reaches out to the community for donations for SJ Cares. His little sister includes hand drawn pictures in the care packages. We have a frank conversation about the difficulty explaining topics like homelessness to young children and how to involve them in service projects.

As a follow up to Serenity Living's fundraising gala on September 14th, The Rock Family Foundation is MATCHING all donations through 2019 up to $2,000. Donate here and make your dollar work harder! https://slth.networkforgood.com/projects/80184-laura-rock-s-fundraiser

Open call for community connections!! Does your hobby or business promote personal growth? Would you be interested in facilitating a session with Serenity Living? You could teach these young people how to change the oil on a car, how to read a credit report or how to extreme coupon! If you have a passion, please reach out to see if it is a match with this group.

FB for Serenity Living: https://www.facebook.com/TheSerenityHouse/ FB group for SJ Cares: https://www.facebook.com/Sj-Cares-402406497194647/ Music by Buscrates (https://www.instagram.com/buscrates/?hl=de)

Empower by Example

Episode 1 - Jordon Rooney, NFBD www.nfbd.org Jordon Rooney is the CEO of Never Fear Being Different, Inc. in Pittsburgh, PA. He specializes in creating personal brands for leaders in non-profit and for profit corporations. He and his team encourage people to live authentically while promoting positive messages through social media. They are turning the traditional marketing industry on its head and using the power of young people's natural inclination to communicate in order to drive their messages to the masses. NFBD is the home of VlogU, a program that facilitates massive action and learning experiences for high school graduates. This program teaches students how to be financially free, combining impact with influence. At the Rock Family Foundation we are finding real value in contracting with VlogU graduates to run our social media campaigns! If you want to learn more about how these graduates can help YOUR social media and marketing goals, you should reach out to Jordon here. You can also find him on Instagram Facebook Twitter In this episode we analyze how people learn to compartmentalize, and how we can break those patterns that keep us from living our lives as our true selves. We discuss challenging traditional career paths, traditional school models and why you shouldn't care what other people think about what you are doing. We ask what if we become active participants in the movements we support from the sidelines, and muse over how when you challenge the status quo people will call you crazy until it becomes a trend to support you. We challenge you to note the difference between impact and sustained impact. Bringing yourself back to your personal "Why" and sitting still. How to get back to feeling and stop thinking. We discuss the value of being in your own body and removing the stigma of self help. Music by Buscrates: Instagram