Authors: Elizabeth Divis, Hay Soe, & Melissa Pearson From Food Insecurity to Financial Confidence: Building Futures Through Financial Literacy Real Life, one of Youthlinc’s core programs, is an after-school peer-to-peer mentoring program that supports refugee and immigrant youth across Salt Lake County. Founded in 2010, the program was created to address a gap in services for refugee teens and has since grown to serve more than 500 youth annually across multiple sites. Throu

By Jackie Moynihan and Shelly Burningham, Real Life Directors For the past several years, Merrick Bank has been a tremendous donor and partner for Youthlinc and its flagship after-school peer mentoring program, Real Life . In addition to their financial support of Youthlinc programming, Merrick Bank has also taken part in Real Life curriculum development and scholarship promotion . Merrick Bank first got involved in Youthlinc during the 2017-2018 Real Life year. After gener