What Problems is the C2A Program Trying To Solve?

It’s simple… we grow stronger as a community when our young professionals are successful! We are here to help!

1) choose2advance Housing Program:

How can we help our young professionals save six months of Emergency Savings?

The biggest expense for our Arvada Colorado young professionals is “housing”. Not just rent, but utilities, cable/Wi-Fi, insurance and so on. Easily these costs can be over $1500/month. (usually over $2000 - $24,000/year)

Most young professionals who living here in Arvada do not have 6 months Emergency Savings. Most financial experts state that establishing 6 months of Emergency Savings is an essential building block necessary for financial security of the Middle Class.

It is our goal, that after 6 months of participation in the C2A program, our participants will have generated a minimum of $8-10,000 in savings! This is a remarkable opportunity for these young professionals to “get ahead”.

Not having 6 months of emergency savings leaves these young professionals vulnerable to not having the funds to ride out any setbacks in their career plans. These kinds of setbacks often require that they leave our community.

Our community needs these young professionals to start businesses, launch successful careers and settle down some roots. Their staying and growing their careers here in the greater Denver area will help us continue to build on our already unique and vibrant community.

2) choose2advance Mentoring Program:

How can we help our young professionals gain a firm foundation and some confident footing to successfully hike along their life’s journey?

In our American culture we value an independent approach to navigating life. In fact here in the West, the history of striking out on your own is legend. That’s not wrong or bad, in fact it’s kind of awesome. The problem is we sometimes interpret that to mean we can’t ask for help, suggestions or advice. That is not true of course.

Here we at choose2advance honor your independence and desire to pursue your goals/future. In fact, we think desire, drive, determination and taking the bull by the horns is critical toward reaching your goals. It’s just that we don’t believe that means you have to do it all on your own.

Why not ask some questions? Why not get some advice from others a bit further down the road who have lots of successes and failures under their belt and can share their hard earned wisdom with you?

Don’t worry, even with a mentor’s advice you will still make plenty of mistakes. You can’t avoid all the mistakes. Stuff happens in life. It’s just that we feel it’s not necessary to make “all” the mistakes. Why not avoid a few by talking with others willing to share the lessons they have learned?

Mentoring is not of course for the kinds of problems that might surround trauma. We are not counselors. We can talk with you and help you find that kind of therapy outside of our program with a licensed professional. .

Mentoring is also not about someone knowing all the answers. We are not Gurus. We are neighbors who have journeyed father down life’s path who can listen, share our experience and help “you” make your own plan and your own choices.

We are here to listen and see if we might have something in our life’s experience that might be of help as you navigate your independent life.

With Mentors: “You get to make all the decisions. It’s your life. You steer the ship. We justtry to help you become aware of the wind, tides and hopefully help you dodge that iceberg that you don’t quite see yet.”