My team
Why I care
Both coffee and running are my happy place.
When I heard from a friend about the opportunity to run the Twin Cities Marathon in support of Wildflyer Coffee and learned about Wildflyer's mission to support homeless youth in the Twin Cities, I immediately knew that I would be running my first ever marathon this fall.
Homeless youth need our support to access basic needs such as shelter, food, and mental health care. By making a donation to Wildflyer, you will be helping a young person in my community who is experiencing homelessness gain housing, rewarding employment, mental health care, education, and so much more.
Everybody deserves to find their happy place. Let's work together as a community to ensure the homeless youth in the Twin Cities have their best chance to find theirs.
Description
Wildflyer Coffee is a coffee company that hires and trains youth experiencing homelessness throughout the Twin Cities, giving them the tools and skills they need to leave homelessness, achieve self-sufficiency and build the future they deserve.
Every day, there are approximately 7,500 youth ages 16-24 in Minnesota that experience homelessness. These are people's sons or daughters, siblings, and friends, who are not only fighting to fit in with their peers but trying to find basic needs like food and shelter. The likelihood is high that these vulnerable youth will experience untreated mental health disorders, struggle with substance use, engage in survival sex or trafficking, become victims of violent crime or complete suicide.
This fall, I'm running the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon/10 Mile race to raise money for Wildflyer Coffee. Your donation will help provide youth experiencing homelessness with paid employment, housing assistance, mental health referrals, skills coaching, education help, and future career planning. Thank you for joining me to end youth homelessness!
