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Twenty weeks looks like this.

Not a before and after. A room of people from Tullahoma who kept showing up on a Monday night, and the night at the end when everybody got a certificate with their own name on it.

“I learned I was in generational poverty. I figured out the resources I had and the ones I lacked. I went from poverty to wealth.”

Getting Ahead graduate, Tullahoma

Getting Ahead graduates and their families on stage under a balloon arch at the Tullahoma Bridges graduation ceremony.
Graduation night, with the families who sat through all twenty weeks too.
Five Getting Ahead graduates holding their certificates of completion beside Ernie Jones.
Certificates of completion. Twenty Mondays each.
Two graduates holding certificates with Ernie Jones in front of a Congrats Grad chalkboard.
Money Matters and Financial Peace University, finished.
The Bridges for Students group hiking together in front of Machine Falls near Tullahoma.
Bridges for Students at Machine Falls.
Four children coloring at a table with a volunteer during the Bridges for Students program.
The kids' room, running at the same time as class.

The next class needs the next room full of people.

Whether that is you, or someone you keep thinking about while you read this.

Apply for the classPut someone through

20 weeks. Free. Call Ernie Jones at 865-244-9321.