YUKON, Okla. (KFOR) – A new dream is maturation inside this aged home on Main Street in Yukon.
Rachel Smith skeleton to move her food truck, a Red Bird Coffee Cart, into a permanent space and sinecure teenagers aging out of inspire caring to work by a mention system.
“House a mentorship module and practice module for teenagers aging out of care. That we will be means to fill that opening as they transition into adulthood,” Smith said.
She skeleton to bond them to mentors in their preferred work margin and assistance them find travel to a emporium if needed.
Rachel used to work for DHS. That’s where she got a thought for a Red Bird Coffee House, interjection to a teen child she met who was vital in a shelter.
“And he said, ‘Rachel we usually wish to have a job. we usually wish to be means to have a phone and yield that for myself and to one day have a car,’” Smith said. “That unequivocally spurred me to think, ‘okay, that is something that needs to be addressed and should be permitted to all people no matter what their childhood was like.'”
Similar to her new fiancé, Kris Goble.
The dual got intent in a same space as their destiny coffee shop.
Kris was in inspire caring for 6 years and aged out, though he says his inspire family gave him a fortitude he indispensable to be successful.
“A lot of us usually grasp success formed on who we approximate ourselves with and it’s those people that inspire us and afterwards belligerent us that unequivocally pull us forward,” Kris Goble said.
And that’s what they wish to do with this mentorship module during a coffee shop.
“…we’re means to uncover them initial of all that they’re desired and cared for, that we’re here to inspire them and we’re here to assistance beam them along as they grow and develop,” Goble said.
Rachel says they devise to open a emporium in Feb and will offer waffles, coffee and lunch.