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

"Kim has really enlightened me to a bunch of great new communication styles and techniques and I really value the skills and strategies I have learned with her and I can see how it would help me professionally and personally."

(She / Her)

Motivational Interviewing Training

"MI has been a great way to meet the families where they are at and have them explore different ways of parenting as well as different ways of coming to their own realizations of how to solve their problems... Kim has been really dynamic in her training keeping everyone engaged. It has really been a great asset for me to be a part of this training."

(She / Her)

Program Manager at Lynn Community Health

"We have had Kim here many times at our site. She does our GIFT and MI trainings for our staff. Kim has such a way about her. She really makes people feel comfortable. She really tries to remain flexible with everybody. She's really just wonderful. She's patient, she'll go at your pace. She meets you where you're at. She is a wonderful trainer... We will continue to use MI at our center and use it with our young adults because we found that it works."

(He / Him)

Lead Peer Specialist, Vinfen

"Kim knows how to open people up but hold structure throughout the process... Kim's great, I could not recommend more."

(He / Him)

Lead Peer Specialist, Vinfen

"Kim knows how to open people up but hold structure throughout the process... Kim's great, I could not recommend more."

(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!”