I’m Eric Touvell, I’m 43 years old I’m from a small town in Cambridge Ohio. I came from a bad childhood, my parents put me up for adoption when I was 10 and a half. I went from foster home to foster home, group home to group home. I went from locked up as a kid to prison. I been in addiction, I been in prison. I have got into trouble a lot. I been homeless and been in treatment. I am a single father. The first person in my family to go to college. I go to Colorado Technical University. I am getting my bachelor's degree in Business Administration in Science. I have a 4.0. I take school very serious and it's very important to me. I wanna one day be a CEO of a big company and run a business that will help people out. I wanna start my own business and start a business every few years when each business takes off. I'm gonna partner up with different people and partner in different areas of professions. I wanna give homeless people jobs and convicted felons, and addicts. I wanna give back to my community. I wanna give people a chance that have it hard. That lost everything and have to start over. That have no place to go. That are single parents. I wanna take something from recovery and give it away to another addict. I totally turned my life around. I go to college and I'm in the Cairn Recovery Program in Zanesville Ohio. I go to groups thru the week. I work a part-time job at taco bell. I go to 3 to 8 NA/AA every week. I do service work and 3 hrs community service every week. I do a Forever Dads group. I speak and give back at different functions. I am thinking about after I get my degree going into recovery because I want to help or save another persons life. I am a single dad and I struggle raising my kids. I sacrifice and stress and struggle to get by. I never have nothing and it's hard to keep up in school but I'll do it. I'm always worried about feeding my kids. I worry about struggling all the time. I am engaged to get married to a woman with 4 kids. I also wanna put my kids through college. I wanna give back and help everyone.

When I was 10 and a half I was given up by my mom in court. She said she didn't want me no more and nothing to do with me so I got sent to many different foster homes. I came from an abusive environment physically, sexually. My parents were drug addicts and I had some horrible and unspeakable things done to me and even in foster care. Growing up in foster care had its ups and downs. I always dreamed of a family that I could never find in foster care. I was sent from place to place. I struggled mentally and peed to bed til I was 16. I was physically, mentally and emotionally abused. I was bounced place to place. I got involved in sports. I met my best friend that was supposed to adopt me but never did and he’s still in my life today. I was taught a lot of different things by a lot of different people and been to 10 or more different places. I became a man and a dad early in foster care. I had to take care of myself a lot and was lonely and had to deal with emotions by myself. There was families and places where I wanted to stay but couldn’t. There was people I called and thought was my mom and dad that didn’t turn out to be. With this scholarship, it will help me tremendously financially and also bring me happiness and accomplishment. It will help me emotionally. It will solve a big problem financially since I’m a single dad to four kids. I recently got engaged and my fiancé has four kids. I am going to college to open up my own business , so I can help out at, expos, foster kids, kids in the system, home, and try to get people in my community, a second chance. I know it’s hard out here and some people doesn’t have to help others. I hope others before I help myself. It’s my dream one day to start my own business so I can overcome all the obstacles that I’ve ever went through. It would help my life so much in many ways. I work hard at my school and I try to get everything I can get school and outside of school. I’m really struggling financially. This will help me so much and it’s my dream to get a scholarship. I always kind of get down when I see other people get scholarships in black dang why can’t I I gave all everything I got always and I just want that chance or that dream or some help just to help me out one time. Thank you for your time. I appreciate I could write this essay. God bless you.

My mom and dad gave me up when I was 10 and a half years old. I grew up in group homes and foster homes. I was sold for drugs by my parents and sexually abused and physically abused. My dad was an alcoholic and a drug addict and my mom was an addict too. My father was in prison most of my life. I gotten in trouble growing up and been in and out of prison, ended up doing 15 years of my life. I had four. I was abused in foster care. I have 3 sisters and I brother see or talk to. I've been fighting an addiction to selling drugs and recently I was raided and got into trouble and got really badly into fentanyl. I volunteered and came to Cairn Recovery Services in Zanesville Ohio and changed my life. I am 7 months clean. I attend 8 to 10 NA/AA meetings every week. I have a sponsor. I do 3 hours of community service or service work for the homeless and addicts. I see a counselor and case manager every week. I go to Forever Dads group and Heypeers group each week. I got off probation in Ohio. I go to recovery class every day through the week. I'm doing my NA steps. I'm helping other afficts. I'm in college taking Business Administration in Science getting my bachelor's degree and have a 4.0 GPA. I am in my kids lives. Going through my life I collected a lot of stuff but I really loved collecting stamps. One time someone sold me stamps that were stolen from the museum in Parkersburg West Virginia that I loved so much and paid a lot for. I called the cops and turned them into police. It’s a peice of history and it’s someone else’s and not mine. I collected a bunch of stamps, I’m obsessed with them. When I was a kid going thru all that abuse and stuff I collected stamps and sports cards so that’s like my hobbie and an obsession. I also involve my family, friends and kids collecting stamps. I have a wide collection of stamps and I love the different versions of them.Walt Disney stamps are my favorite ones. I think I deserve this scholarship because I am an avid stamp collector and I have overcome some bad problems in my life and changed so much for the better. I really could use this scholarship a lot in my financially.

I plan to create a legacy by helping out everybody and anybody I can. Leaving whatever I can to my kids or my girlfriend‘s kids. Pushing my kids through college and helping them. I’m going to school at Colorado technical university to one day hopefully run a few different successful businesses. I want to give people in recovery, addicts, people trying to get better their lives, people involved in my church, homeless, people, and people getting out of prisons or ex-cons it’s hard for them to get a job. I know what it’s like being homeless and going through an addiction. I know what it’s like to be in recovery to better yourself. I’ve had a bad childhood, grew up with my parents, giving me away a lot of mentor and physical abuse. I would be a lot. I was giving away. I went through some of the worst childhood you can ever endure. I’ve been in and out of prison a few times. So what I do is I mentor, and I’m peer support recovery coach. I go around to churches to groups, I’m involved in Karen recovery services in Zanesville, Ohio. I go around and get my story. I get my story at NA/AA meetings. I get my testimony at church, in jails, with anyone who will listen. If I ever have time, I’m gonna start a podcast and do some YouTube or social media platforms so I can reach others. I let my light shine by volunteering for the homeless doing service work, and community service. I’m going to try to give ex-cons a job that done have nothing . It’s hard to start all over, after going to prison and losing everything and not having anything and having to break the law or sell drugs or do anything to get ahead in life. I hope that one day my story or my work or helping people makes a difference. I grew up in foster care, so one day I want to help foster kids and be there for people getting abused. I wanna work in peer support recovery and get my life to that. I want to give back because I’ve taken so much. I want to help people get off drugs and I wanna help people better at their lives because I’ve changed mine for the best. I think Colorado technical university and I have a 4.0 GPA in many ways I try to let my life shine, and hopefully one day I can save a life or let my light shine far enough that can help it can help anybody or everybody.

Hi, my name is Eric Touvell, I am 43 years old. I recently go to online college at Colorado Tech University, and I major in business administration and science. I maintain 4.0 GPA average, and I’m getting my bachelors degree. I had a really tough childhood since a baby. I was born addicted to heroin. I was physically and mentally abuse from a young kid until I was 16. I went to bed until I was 15. I went through a lot of physical abuse, where I got being a lot by my parents and my foster parents. I probably went through 8 to 12 different foster homes, and five different group homes. When I was 10 1/2, my parents gave me up for adoption. I was malnutrition and really not taken care of. When I went to foster care, I lived with a lot of foster parents, that would be mean less me and do bad things to me. A lot of them didn’t care about me and just shit me off to the next home. I grew up involved in drugs and in and out of jail in prison. My dad was an alcoholic and a drug addict and my mom was an alcoholic and a drug addict. In foster care when II grew up involved in drugs and in and out of jail in prison. My dad was a alcoholic and a drug addict and my mom was an alcoholic and a drug addict. In foster care when I got comfortable, and I found a family that like I just got shoved off to the next person so I could never really settle down. I went to many different schools that I really liked, but I could never go to the school dude and being moved around so much. I met many different brothers and sisters and foster care, but I could never got to enjoy them or get clothes because I was being shipped around. I was starving in foster care. Very badly beaten. I think going to that has made me a great person. I go to college. I’ve changed my life. I have kids that I take care of, and I would never put them through. None of that. I’m a great father to my kids. And to my step kids. I’m great to my fiancé. I tried to mentor in some peoples lives and give them my story sometimes. I go to school, I go to NAA meetings I go to groups I go to classes. I attend college and I am looking for a job. I think going through some of the adversity I went through has made me a great person and show me that I’ve been strong and I can overcome any obstacle.

Hi my name is Eric Touvell and I am an entrepreneur. I attended Colorado technical university and I major and business administration and science. I take classes online and I have maintained a 4.0 GPA. After I get my bachelors degree, I might go back to school or become a peer support counselor. I would really like to go back to school, but I am going to start a couple businesses. I would like to start a string of different small businesses every two years. I want to start a whole bunch of different businesses and put people in position to run businesses with me kind of like a partnership. I also want to get back to my community, I wanna hire convicted felons, people, struggling and recovery, and homeless people. I want to give ex-cons a second chance because I know how hard it is getting out of prison, not having no one, or not having nobody, or nothing or having to start over for a fresh start. I also know what it feels like to be homeless because I’ve been homeless a few times. I also want to give recovering addicts, the people that serious and really want to change their life. Because I know what that feels like too. I want to see people at their best, I also want to see people win, and do better, and change their lives. I really want to get back to my community, not only to other people. I also like to help others. I have dreams of learning, different and new thanks. I really love to learn. I want to be successful in different aspects of my life. I also want my family, my kids and my fiancé‘s kids to have hopefully one day they can go through school or run my businesses. I want to push my kids to their highest potential, and I want to succeed, and I love to take care of my family. I usually put other people first. I’ve overcome homeless, starting my own business from scratch, recovery, jails, prisons, and being alone and having no one to help me. I deserve this scholarship because I’ve overcame a bunch of obstacles in my life, and I know this will help me financially because I struggle all the time. Taking care of kids and taking care of myself in recovery is really hard. Also maintaining going to school. I worry about financial things in it, and I’m doing this by myself and I have no one to help me. I think I deserve this scholarship, because I work hard, and I will put it to use for good things to come to better myself for me and my family, to better my life for me and others, and towards my school tuition, which I pay a lot.

I think my experience with mutism was affected by a lot of trauma and a lot of negative emotions. I think due to my anxiety and depression and being nervous and shy has a lot to do with it. Growing up from when I can remember my dad and mom were drug addicts and my dad treated me and my siblings with a lot of violence. I was addicted to herion when I was a baby, my mom and dad traded me for drugs. I was physically abused a lot so I think that was the big reason. I was abused up until 10 and beat til my mom gave me up when I was 10 and half. My mom gave me up to the courts and I was into foster home and grew homes and youth detention centers were my home and the beatings and physical abuse didn’t stop when I was out of the road. I think another factor was that I ran the streets with a lot of older dudes and were taught and lived don’t talk to no cops or police about nothing so I was quite. I also was taught by a lot of older people so I was taught to listen. I wet the bed up til I was 16 years old. I used to studder a lot, but I grew out of it. You can still catch it sometimes. I still am shy and scared to talk around people or in groups. I’m always worried about talking in front of people scared of being judged. Opening the door to people or trying to be around me or friends. I really got social anxiety bad. I still isolate a lot and like to be to myself. I am quite a lot and it’s hard for me to make eye contact ever. I’m just really nervous and have to be forced or know you or be comfortable to open up. Then I still hate opening up. I do hide behind a mask and hide the real me and mask my emotions. It’s hard for me to go around people or out in public or stores. I have no interest to hangout or make friends. I think part of it too was being in prison 15 years of my life and being locked down. I get my excitement in books or entertaining myself. I rather just be quit and to myself to not have to deal with problems and people and I’m used to not speaking. Pursuing higher education is important to me because I wanna own my own business and I wanna change myself and change my life. I wanna get myself better and I wanna help my mental state and teach my kids a different life. It’s important to me because college is my dream and I work hard at it and I want to be able to help others and change my life with college. So if you could please help me and award me with this scholarship. I really need it and it would help tremendously because I never have both due to my kids and school and I struggle and need help. Plus I deserve it I really am a hard worker and have a 4.0. I gave you complete honesty and thank you for your time.

Being a single father is one of the hardest things I have endured in my life, and it’s hard to keep up with school and in life. I have to sacrifice everything for my school and my kids and I hardly have anything to myself. It’s hard to go to school, and work and take care of my kid. Taking care of my kids is like a full-time job. I went through a lot of anxiety, depression, and stress, while maintaining taking care of my kids and with school. It’s hard taking my kids to doctors appointments, and school events, and struggling to do school and be there at the same time. I struggle financially a lot, I stress about ways to feed and take care of them every day. I literally give everything I got to my kids . My kids are the best thing in my life and they’re number one. And I wouldn’t do anything to change that. They’re the most important thing to me. My dream is to start my own business. I go to Colorado technical university to get my masters degree in business administration and science . Doing all this I’ve maintained a 4.0 GPA. I’ve been through a lot of battles in court, and I’ve struggled a lot in life just to take care of my kids and being my kids life. There’s a lot of sleepless night and a lot of stress anxiety in their depression. I’ve endorsed to try to keep maintaining with my school and taking care of my kids . I am a really have a life outside of taking care of my kids. This scholarship will help me tremendously. It will help me stress less about financial problems. Of in the future, what am I gonna do to open my own business without having to pay back a lot in school loans . Am I gonna have enough money to take care of my kids and keep going to school. So the scholarship will help a lot. It will help a lot with helping me in school so I can budget and move money around and be able to use money for other things besides my school . It will help me financially so I can maintain and take care of my kids and I won’t have to work as much or as hard and the struggle as much in my life. It will help me financially, so I don’t have to stress about what I’m gonna do in the future to keep going to school and be able to pay my bills and be able to maintain my bills so I can take care of my kids and go to school. It will help me financially so I can upgrade and I can buy the things I need and get computers and all the stuff that I need to while I’m going to school. It will be a blessing and a trophy and a reward because I’ve worked hard to change my life and maintain and I have went to a lot and I’ve struggled a lot and it will help me the most, and it will be a blessing. 

I wanna make a change in my life and also for my kids. My goal and dream is to get my bachelor’s degree in Business Administration in Science and one day start my own business or a bunch of businesses. I spent my whole life in foster care and in group homes and In prison. Since my last last release from prison I have fell back into my old life of drug dealing and being addicted to fentanyl. I volunteered and got in trouble and came to Cairn Recovery Services in Zanesville, Ohio. Do all the drug addiction and all the negative obstacles I had to endure I still maintain my college at Colorado technical university and maintained a 4.0 my life was in manageable and I was powerless over drugs. But since then I’ve turned around 360°. I go to 8 to 10 A meetings a week. I see a counselor and a case manager every week. I do three hours of community service a week. I do a Forever Dads group and Heypeers group. I go to class and groups every day throughout the week. I really wanna be a better person and a better father for my four kids. I go to school because one day I dream and it’s my goal to start my own business or businesses so I can provide for my family and give him a different and a better life than I had. I want to help out convicted felons and give him a second chance at life and to be better for their families and have a job. I want to help our homeless so they’re not homeless and give them a life they didn’t have. And I also want to give back back to my community because I’ve took so much out of it. I wanna be a successful business man and give my children an opportunity. I never had grown up with the family. I want to push them to college and I wanna better my life with the business.. The scholarship will help me mentally and not stress and help with my anxiety and stress and depression. It will help me not stress over financial situations or money so I can keep on on this journey to my recovery. The scholarship would be a positive award. You know it would be a dream in my life. It will help me financially, and I have worked hard and I deserve a scholarship like this. I will be able to help other addicts and other people going through the same struggles that I have endured or the struggles that I have went through so maybe I can help them in their lives. I plan to pay pay it back by keep helping out others, giving the others and being there for everyone and giving my community jobs in a positive business that I can help my community.

Today in my life I give back by helping the homeless and helping at my place in recovery of Cairn Recovery services In zanesville Ohio. I give back by doing service work at my N.A. and AA meetings. By being sober and present and helping other homeless and other addicts by being there and listening and catering to their needs. Bu putting up chairs and setting up for events. By donating to the pot for helping pay bills. I also help homeless in our area with blankets and food. I do it with integrity. I go the extra mile by giving them clothes and things I need. I’m a good guy and literally will give the shirt off my back. I have been doing at least 3 hrs or more each week for the last 5 months. I’m always going the extra mile trying to make life easier for others or making them smile or with whatever I can do. I also do volunteer work at my community centers cleaning and helping other addicts. By giving them hope and strength and special support. By listening them and helping them get over obstacles. By cleaning the place and vehicles. By donating money and clothes if I can. I do all this for nothing and I do it with integrity. I wanna impact the world and make it better and help fix it. I wanna give jobs and help people with money. I wanna help mothers and fathers get back to their families. I wanna come up with something special and a plan that nobody else is doing. I do wanna give strength and purpose back to the world. I always put others first and get hurt and disappointed and let down a lot. I don’t get ahead much because I’m always helping others and sacrificing and going without to help others or put a smile on someone else’s face. I go out of my square and way to be there or help others. I give up my needs for others needs. I go without a lot and I make it harder to survive for myself. I gave out my own food and money and had to figure what to do for myself. This scholarship will be a blessing to my life and my families. It will help me not worry about future finances and help with my anxiety and depression and my stress. It would be a honor and a trophy and a blessing and so much help to get this scholarship.

I am in school getting my bachelors degree in Business Administration in Science. I went to school a few times before in college but due to bad experiences and things in my life I never succeeded up til now. I currently maintained a 4.0. That’s hard while going to school, trying to find a job and taking care of my kids and being in recovery. I want to one day open my own business or a bunch of businesses and succeed and take care of my family. I want to give back to my community. I want to help convicted felons and give them a second chance and somewhere to go and be able to be a productive member of society and take care of their families. I want to be able to help the homeless because I was homeless once and I have nobody to help me. I hope to save a drug addicts life or a person that needs it. I wanna be able to provide and help my family and my community. I wanna show my kids and teach them lessons and goals. It’s hard to take care of kids and go to school. I sacrifice and struggle. It’s hard to maintain and go to school and work and take care of four kids. This scholarship will help with my stress and anxiety and depression. It will help me not worry about future debt and how I’m gonna raise money to start my own business. It will help so I am able to budget more in other areas and be able to make it and not have to lose out or struggle as much. It will bring me a sense of relief and peace. It will fuel my drive to maintain and keep pushing and work harder. It will act as a trophy in my life, a positive accomplishment. It will help me financially in school and lines and with school supplies. It would be a blessing and a reward for all my hard work and sacrifices. I never have the money or time or that much strength because I give everything I got toward my school and my kids. It will help me so I can put more in my budget of taking care of my kids, and bills, or a place or another vehicle because these are all things I struggle with in my life and every day. So please consider me for this scholarship because it will help tremendously and be a blessing and well used in my schooling towards my better future for me and my family.

What led me to my path was my drive and determination of starting my own business and my kids. Being successful in life and doing the right thing honestly and with respect and integrity especially from the bad life I came from is my drive. I wanna help people and be able to take care of my kids and provide for my family. To better my life and push my kids into the right direction and help my kids be there best selves they can be. My painful background and all the obstacles I had to prevail and endure is what motivates me and keeps me humble and pushing and striving for the next level of greatness. Knowing how to get back up after I fall or make a mistake. Knowing there is something better and trying to complete my goals. I went thru a few different college attempts until this one and always something went wrong until this time. I am doing amazing and maintained a 4.0 since I been at Colorado Technical University. I have worked hard and went the extra mile and have did everything I could and put my all into it. I’m goin to be successful and open up a few different businesses. I plan on giving back to my community. I plan on staying starting my business and helping out homeless and felons. Trying to help them with reenter society and be successful after making mistakes. I wanna give back to my community and trying to make it better for kids for our future. I’m gonna use all the tools I learned in school and apply the smartly. I am the first one to go to college in my family. I have kids I take care of being a single father, that I have to sacrifice and struggle with keeping up with them, work and school and my recovery. I think I deserve this scholarship and I worked hard for it. It will help toward my schooling and take off less stress and anxiety and depression that I go thru. I have overcome adversity and I still remain humble. I’m just gonna keep going the extra mile in my school work. I’m just gonna keep going to school and doing the extra work. Keep doing the right thing on my path to open up my own business. I’m gonna keep helping people and keep getting good grades. I’m going to keep dreaming and setting goals. I’m gonna keep being a great father.

Being a single father is the most challenging and the hardest thing I have endured. Being a single parent after growing up with no father or parents to teach you or show you things when it’s hard or good is tough. I never have any time for myself, and I struggle being a single father and going to school at the same time. Having to drop everything and run them to appointments and the doctor and school and events is hard. It’s even harder doing it without that much help. I sacrifice everything for my kids. I struggle with school but I maintain a 4.0 thru all this time. This is why I go to school for and hope that I show them the way so one day they choose college, Struggling to get them places, dealing with sickness. I can’t count how many sleepless nights I’ve had. I work hard at school after many times trying this. I bend over backwards and I give my kids everything I can and I never have anything for myself. My kids are worth it. I wouldn’t change nothing. I struggle feeding them and providing certain stuff, trouble paying bills. I’m going to school to start my own business. I wanna be able to teach my kids hard work and positive things and respect.i wanna put my kids thru college. I wanna be able to leave them something. Opening my own business will not only help my kids but I can help others and give back to the community, help felons and homeless. Make a difference or maybe save a life. I wanna teach my kids strive for success and set goals and complete them. This scholarship will help me with my anxiety and my depression. It will help me from worrying about my bills and my future and help me with opening my business and keep me in school which is my dream and what I been trying to do for a long time. This scholarship I need because I struggle and I give up everything I have to school and my kids. Because after being adopted and sacrificing and giving up and holding on to my dreams. It will take off less problems in my life with struggling with bills and food and having to give up everything for my kids. I have changed my life tremendously and turned my life around for school and my kids. I work hard in college and pray for help and a reward and this would help me more than you know in a lot of ways. It will help me when I feel like quiting and giving up. This scholarship means a lot to me because it will be a trophy for being a good dad. It will keep me humble and work harder when life is hard. If there is anyone out there that deserves this scholarship it’s me. I might not be perfect, I know I make mistakes, I know I struggle but I know I’m a great day and I’m present and give everything I got in school and my kids lives.

Being a single parent has affected my experience to do my college classes tremendously. It’s so hard to raise my kids and feed them and run them back and forth to this place and appointments and school. It’s really rough without no help. All the times you have to stop and drop everything your doing and have to sacrifice a lot of things because of being a single parent. I have no help, I’ve lost a lot. I constantly am losing things I have no control of. I feel like being a single parent is a real job. All the emotions you go thru and have to deal with. All the anxiety and depression and stress. I feel like I’m barely holding on. I love my kids, they are my favorite people in the world. I believe family is everything! I would sacrifice and do anything for my kids. I’m going to school for my kids. I want them to follow in my footsteps. Being a single has its ups and downs. It has its perks as long as it has its down. My kids are so amazing and I wouldn’t take it back or change nothing. All my four kids are a blessing to my life. Since I been going to college I also attended a group called Forever Dads which is so amazing and helps be be a great dad and maintain peace and be a great father in my kids lives. With all the custody battles and pain I been thru I love being a single father. I also keep up with grades and I have maintained a 4.0 in Business Administration in Science at Colorado Technical University. I am truly proud of myself for the great dad I am and changing my life around. I am going to school to start my own businesses. With this money will really help me in school and I really worked hard for it and i deserve it. I came a long way since being in prison. This money would help me and help my community and I would be able to start my own business and give back to the single dads. I could help the next single dads out with podcasts and advice and reels and YouTube shorts. I would be able to be freed up to help others. I always help others and put others first. I wouldn’t have to stress and worry and could focus on my future. I could budget better and it can free me up money wise because I put everything towards my school and my kids. I never have nothing for myself. Being a single dad is hard and takes a toll on you. I wouldn’t change nothing and my kids are what I do this for!

I grew up in a drug and alcoholic family. There was a lot of physical abuse and emotional and mental abuse. I grew up getting in trouble and selling drugs and my parents gave me up when I was eleven. I got mistreated in foster care and spent 15 years in prison in a few different numbers. I was homeless a few times and I had no help from my family. I started my own business once homeless and it’s always been my dream to own my own business and help out others, convicts, homeless, and families in need. I wanna own my own business to give back and help my family and take care of my family and kids. I’ve went to college a few different times but do to prison or jail or no help I couldn’t do it but I kept at it. Even thru a drug addiction I maintained going to online college at Colorado technical university. I maintained a 4.0. I was addicted to fentanyl really bad, and died and it ruined my life. I knew I had a problem and had to change my life so I volunteered and went to rehab and sober living. I take classes and groups every day through the week. I attend 8 to 10 N.A./AA meetings a week. I see a drug counselor and a case manager every week. I do at least 3 hours of community service every week and give back to recovery and homeless and drug addicts. I go to forever dad’s group and Heypeers group each week. I go to online college at Colorado technical university and maintained a 4.0. I am almost 6 months clean today. I struggle cause my bad past and I am trying to maintain my recovery trying to get a job. I need this scholarship so I can maintain recovery. I need this because I am the true definition of resilience. I overcome a lot and changed so much and need help and this scholarship will help me have a better future. It will help me in school with my money situation. It will help me start a business or keep learning so I can start a business and help others. It’s my dream to go to school and own my own business. I one day wanna work in recovery and help and save lives. My family and goals and dreams and determination drives me. I have a good heart and put others first and help others before myself. I recently met a woman and she has five kids and I want to marry her and build a life and family with her.

Math is my favorite subject. I feel in my opinion that it’s the only subject we learned in school that we need in the world today. I love math because it’s so many different things about it. There are so many different levels to it. There are so many different ways to learn it and use it. You need math for everything in the world. Things are mostly sequences and mathematical in the world. You need math for everything and there are numbers in everything you use. You need math with money because you need money for everything and to live. Everything you do is add or taking away. You need math to get ahead in life. Everything is numbers. You use numbers in everything. You use math for cooking and time and have to know it to stay updated in the world today. You need to live for technology and know how to do things. Math is fun and also challenging. There is levels to math. You need math to improve in life. You need to make life decisions even using math. You gotta have to math to survive. I don’t think you could get ahead or survive or even live or get better in life.

I grew up in an abusive and a drug home. I was physically and mentally abused. I was beat so so bad by my parents and gave up for adoption at eleven years old. I grew up in foster care and group homes and went thru a lot of bad experiences in foster care. I went to prison for seven years at 18 years old with a son. I been to prison for 15 years of my life in adult prison thru 3 or 4 different times. I tried to go back to school a few different times. I was homeless at lot of times and been thru life struggling a lot. I have 4 kids that I am going thru court for and struggling to be in there lives. I just got out of prison at the beginning of this years and got back into selling drugs again and got hooked on fentanyl. I died a lot of times and was really badly hooked. I got raided and got into trouble and knew I needed help and had to change my life so I volunteered and went to Cairn Recovery Services. There I turned my life around 360 degrees. I go to drug classes every day through out the weekdays. I see a case manager and counselor once a week. I go to Forever Dads and Heypeers group once a week so I can become a better dad for my 4 kids. I go to 8 to 10 AA/NA meetings every week. I do 3 hours of community service every week, since since sept. I give back to addicts and to the homeless. I do it with integrity because I am no better than them and I came from the same life and the same struggles. I wanna help and better there lives. I’m always the first person to help others and I literally gave and will give the shirt off my back or my last dollar in my pocket. I wanna work in recovery services or become a peer support coach and maybe one day help drug addicts or save people’s lives. I recently met a woman with 5 kids that I just got engaged to. Thru my addiction I maintained getting my bachelor’s degree in Business Administration in Science online at Colorado technical university. This scholarship will help me out tremendously and help me and my family and kids and my new families lives. It will also help me so I can help others. I really need help because I’m struggling to get a job and maintain my classes and groups and my sobriety and also my background. It will help me because I’m struggling financially. It will help me in my life so I can help myself and I also need help in school. I maintained a 4.0

I grew up and went thru a really bad childhood and I been in and out of prison. I grew up In poverty and foster homes and grew homes. My mom gave me up when I was 11. I been surrounded around drugs with parents that was drug addicts. I lived an abusive sexually and physically. My grandmother was a preacher and that’s the only family I had growing up. I been in and out of prison and been locked up for 15 years. I recently just got out and got back into the life of selling drugs and got involved in drugs. I was addicted to fentanyl really bad. I had no help and got raided and got into trouble and voluntarily chose to go to rehab. I sit in my cell and asked god to help me In my life and told him I wanted to change. So I picked to go in recovery. I have 4 kids that I struggle to see and take care of. Thru my addiction I still maintained to go to online college. I almost died. So I volunteered and went to rehab/sober living. I had to go to detox first because I was so bad and sick on drugs. Since then I’ve turned my life around majorly. I go to classes and groups all thru the weekdays. I see a counselor once a week and a case manager. I’m in the group Forever Dads so I can be a better father and be in my kids lives. I attended 8 to 10 AA/NA groups a week. I do three hours of community service every week. I go to a group thru Heypeers. I am almost six months clean. I am still going to school at Colorado technical university online. I’m getting my bachelors in business administration in Science. I currently have a 4.0. I just met a woman with 5 kids and we just got engaged. I am currently going thru a court case from my old life. I’m also struggling trying to look for a job. I really need this scholarship, it will help. I have had faith in god and faith that I would turn my life around and do better. I’ve also kept faith I would find a family and be happy. I had faith threw my childhood I would have a better life. I had faith god would get me thru the abuse and find me a family. I had faith in myself and god help me thru this court case and get off drugs. I had faith in recovery and have faith that you are gonna help me out and give me this scholarship. That this scholarship will help me with my life and with my school so I can continue this education and better my life for me and my kids and my family.