By Shelly Burningham, Real Life Director Real Life is an after-school tutoring and life skills peer mentoring program that partners Youthlinc with a variety of organizations in Salt Lake County. Real Life provides active, practical, after-school programming to teens, tween with refugee or immigrant status in Utah.      Real Life was born through the visionary leadership of Ellie Seaborn, a Youthlinc employee at the time.  She explains, "Four nights a week, I was working with

By Shelly Burningham Accepting applications through March 15, 2020.  Click here  to learn more about the Real Life Scholarship. Over the past few years in Real Life, many students have indicated that they want to go to college and have a decent job, but in reality there are many barriers that hinder them from following through on that dream.  Because of this, Real Life implemented a new college preparation curriculum aimed at preparing high school students for post-secondary

We are proud to announce our 2020 Real Life Scholarship Winner Rock Douka Boulini, Olympus High School Rock is from Brazzaville, Congo.  He and his parents came to the United States as refugees when he was fourteen.  Only a few months later his father passed away.  Rock experienced many difficult hardships as a child.  As a result of his many early life traumas, he developed a learning disability.  Although school has been very difficult for him, he is determined to be strong