We are grateful to our community partners for helping make Real Life possible.  During the 2019-2020 school year, Real Life partnered with Promise South Salt Lake, Promise Millcreek, Refugee Immigrant Center – Asian Association of Utah, Salt Lake City School District, and Granite School District.   We are pleased to announce two new additional partnerships with Real Life for the 2020-2021 school year:  Project Access and Umoja Generation. 

Real Life Interns and volunteer mentors administered curriculum based on financial literacy, career & college readiness, communication, civic engagement, social and cultural activities, physical and emotional health, STEM and art expression.  Interns and mentors also provide the participants with one hour of homework help each day.  There was improvement in every core subject among teens due to our programming.  

With the COVID-19 pandemic hitting the State of Utah, school closures were ordered by Governor Herbert from the middle of March to the end of May, 2020.  Because of the school closures and the uncertainty of continuing COVID-19 restrictions, Real Life has developed a virtual lesson curriculum.  Real Life continues to be flexible in offering virtual and/or in-person programming to all of its twelve welcome centers.  Real Life is dedicated, more than ever, in providing necessary services and growing with our mission to support refugee and immigrant youth in gaining essential life skills.  As a result, Real Life continues to improve lessons, increasing curriculum quality, ESL friendliness and active learning components.