Christmas Blessings - Women and Children's Home

We are so grateful to our many supporters in the community who helped our families have a wonderful Christmas this year.  A special thanks goes to the Redlands Church of Christ for their donations and support in making this a special holiday season.  Our Women and Children's Houses were filled with smiles, laughter and love as they celebrated the day with presents and a delicious Christmas dinner.

Our supporters showed the true meaning of Christmas by helping us make this day happen for our families.

Our families gathered together to celebrate Christmas in the house.

The children were very excited to begin opening their presents.

This was a true family event as the moms and their children celebrated the morning together.

The Women and Children's Houses were full of smiling children as they got hugs from their moms.

Finally Cynthia and the women got to relax a bit after a delicious Christmas ham dinner.

Christmas Blessings - Smiling Children

Due to the generosity of our many supporters, our children had a wonderful Christmas as they celebrated the day with their moms.  A special thanks goes to the Redlands Church of Christ for their donations and support in making this a special holiday season.  

We'll never forget the sight of the children opening their presents on Christmas morning.  Our houses were filled with smiles and squeals of delight as they unwrapped their gifts.  We were truly blessed this Christmas season.

Christmas morning was all smiles

This young man is quite happy with his new football.

Merry Christmas!

She is very happy with her bucket of chalk.

More smiles on Christmas morning.

Lots of fun opening the toys.

Hanging out on Christmas morning

Christmas Blessings - Men's Homes

We are grateful to all of our supporters for helping our Men's Homes have a Merry Christmas.  A special thanks goes to the Redlands Church of Christ for their donations and support in making this a special holiday season.  

The men made a delicious Christmas dinner and exchanged gifts.  Cynthia stopped by to wish them all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in 2018.  It was a great day for everyone.

Cynthia wishing the men a Merry Christmas.

Chris and the men on Christmas Day

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

New Office - Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

Steps 4 Life Community Services is grateful for everyone who came out and participated in our ribbon cutting ceremony to dedicate our new office space.  We are very appreciative for the Redlands Chamber of Commerce joining in the celebration and supporting our programs.  This new space will allow us to provide even more services to people who are struggling in our community. From the bottom of our hearts - we want to give a big "Thank You" to everyone.

Our children made this wonderful sign to mark the special occasion.

Here we are after the ribbon was cut.

Many of our clients joined in the celebration.

Cynthia and one of our supporters in the new office.

Cynthia and another supporter in our new office.

All smiles in the new office.

Congratulations - Completed Nurturing Parenting Course

Congratulations to our clients on completing the Nurturing Parenting Class that was provided by Building a Generation.  This was a 16 week course that covered family communication, awareness of needs, nurturing behaviors and healthy physical and emotional development.  The course was focused on building self awareness, positive concept/self-esteem and empathy.  The children also got to complete a Child Enrichment Class at the same time so they were awarded their own certificates.

This was a great experience for both our women clients and their children.  We are very proud of our clients for their perseverance in completing this program.  We are also grateful to Building a Generation for providing this wonderful learning opportunity for our clients.

Here are our proud mothers and their children with their completion certificates.

Adrina is very proud of her World's Best award

Proud mom and daughter and completing the class.

Equally proud mom and son

Two more proud graduates and their children

Congratulations - Completed Leadership, Engagement and Development Class

Congratulations to several of our clients for completing the Leadership, Engagement and Development (L.E.A.D) Class provided by The Family Service Association of Redlands.

In this class, our women learned about leadership and living an honest, purposeful life.  This included a focus on preparing healthy meals as part of a program of mentally, physical and spiritual wellness.  The class also showed how healthy eating is possible even on a limited budget.  All in all, this was a great experience for our clients and we are proud of them for finishing the program.  

We are also grateful to the Redlands FSA for making this class possible for our clients and helping their on their journey to self-sufficiency.

Congratulations on completing the Leadership, Engagement and Development (L.E.A.D) Program!

Congratulations to Our Families Reaching Self-Sufficiency

Steps 4 Life is so happy to be a part of these family reaching self-sufficiency and moving into their own places.  We are also deeply grateful to the many individuals, businesses and agencies that donated goods to help these families with their new start.  These families have worked very hard and deserve their new success.  Congratulations!

One of our families at their new place.

Another family reaching self-sufficiency

Steps 4 Life helping out.

Congratulations to Lorrie Hinkelman - Volunteer of the Year Award

Congratulations to Lorrie Hinkelman on receiving the Adult Volunteer of the Year Award from the Academy for Grassroots Organization at the 2017 Academy Awards for Nonprofit Excellence.  Lorrie is a tireless volunteer for Steps for Life who does so much to help our organization.  We were thrilled to see her receive this well deserved acknowledgment.  Thank you Lorrie!

Lorrie and Cynthia at the 2017 Academy Awards for Nonprofit Excellence.Event.

Lorrie with other attendees at the Event.

Brighter Futures - One Step at a Time Benefit Dinner

We had our first annual Steps 4 Life - Brighter Futures - One Step at a Time Benefit Dinner this weekend at the Burrage Mansion in Redlands.  Over 100 guests attended to support our program.  We all solved the Mystery of the Missing Diamond, ate a delicious dinner and heard some wonderful testimonials from the Steps 4 Life clients.  The evening was a wonderful success.  We are so grateful to our supporters and sponsors for helping us to continue to serve our community.

Cynthia with some of the Steps 4 Life children