Pryncz Lotoj is living in a home.
Shante Rivas is working in her dream field — security.
Lucy Robertson has a home and now works to help place and assist people living in transitional housing.
They are three people out of around 300 assisted by Uplift Eureka since the program’s launch in late 2018.
What started as a branch of Community Access Project for Eureka has blossomed into a guidance program for individuals facing homelessness and other barriers to basic quality-of-life necessities.
Uplift offers job training and outright jobs, coordinates interviews and assists folks with finding employment outside the program, findings housing placement and partners with an array of local agencies all in an effort to serve the undeserved living in Eureka.
“Some people just need direction,” Rivas said. “I knew what I wanted to do when I found Uplift, and they showed me how to do it.”
Rivas currently works as a security guard for Loomis, a domestic and international cash handling and transportation company.
“Uplift directed me toward a bunch of resources I needed. They helped me get my resume together and gave me job training, and after that a job, all of which really helped me get to where I needed to be.”
Rivas said before she earned her license needed to work for Loomis, she was hired on as a crew leader for on of Uplifts community work groups. The groups do jobs such as cleaning up trash, recycling and other beautification gigs around the city.
“It gave me pure joy,” Rivas said. “Being out in the community and knowing we were helping Eureka look better is just such a great feeling.”
Lotoj has been involved with Uplift since February.
Legally blind, Lotoj said he simply “would not have made it” and would almost assuredly be homeless today without Uplift.
“They worked with me to find a place to live,” he said. “They paid first months rent and the security deposit for me. They come help me around the house and fix whatever is broken…They make me feel like I actually matter, like I’m not alone, which means the world. They do what they said they are going to do — they went to bat for me and never dropped the ball.”
In nine short months Robertson went form unemployed and living in the Eureka Rescue Mission to having a home of her own and working full time at Help House, assisting and helping to place folks in transitional housing.
She too worked on one of Uplift’s crews before finding employment, helping to clean up the city.
“It gives you a lot of confidence just knowing you are doing something productive. You can’t overlook that, a lot of times people just need help earning a little self-respect and that can be all someone needs to get going in the right direction,” Robertson said. “They are not judgmental at all, which is something you run into a lot when you’re vulnerable and in need of support,” Robertson said. “Now I work in a job I can feel good about. I can’t say enough about Uplift, they are great people doing great things for the community.”
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