Author Archives: Northern Star

Guests participated in an engaging evening of high-stakes game play, emphasizing the real-life stakes for young individuals aging out of foster care. Professional dealers guided attendees through the experience, offering insights and strategy while fostering a lively atmosphere. More than just entertainment, the event underscored Northern Star’s commitment to providing safe spaces and opportunities forContinue reading “Successful Game Night Raises Money for New Building”

AMAZING only begins to describe this past weekend for Northern Star. Friday was filled with volunteers and board members preparing for Sunday’s fundraiser. Saturday started off with 30 volunteers from Side-by-Side in Service working hard on three different projects throughout the day. Sunday brought supporters to share in Northern Star’s campus renewal and plans forContinue reading “April Showers Bring May Flowers”

WHO & WHY?? Northern Star serves young people that have been in foster care or at-risk environments that need to learn life skills and build the support system necessary to transition successfully to adulthood. Collaboration is the piece of the puzzle that Northern Star is currently seeking in order to expand our program long term.Continue reading “Reaching for the Stars”

Northern Star has accomplished so much this summer and they are already planning big goals for 2024! Current Star House ProgressOnce finished, Northern Star will use the house for:~ office space~ meeting/social room~ area to teach life skills~ community hygiene/life skills program for people that may not have running water, need hygiene items, life skills, clothing, and/orContinue reading “BIG Progress BIG Goals – October 2023”

In 2019 Northern Star thought that we would be opening a maternity program at our recently purchased JW house. The final step to open the program was not able to happen due to Covid. We decided to use the house for several of our independent living program participants while waiting to see just how CovidContinue reading “Waving Goodbye to one Chapter & Opening a new Book!”

Attendance was very low for our fundraiser. Even people who purchased tickets did not attend the event. With so much delicious food, many silent auction items, and of course the main purpose of a fund raiser being to raise funds, I was a little worried at the beginning of the evening that the event wasContinue reading “2nd Annual Garden Party Event”

Looking around at all the things Spring brings, you can see an abundance of blooming flowers, green grass, busy bees, and so much more going on. Northern Star’s new campus is also going in to full bloom! We have staff, board members, volunteers, past participants, and even children asking what needs to be done atContinue reading “In Full Bloom!”

For those who have followed Northern Star since our journey began in 2016, many of you know that our dream was to purchase our own property for a campus where we could oversee all of our projects, participants, and visions unfold in one location. Northern Star was grateful to be able to use our firstContinue reading “Spring Forward!”

Northern Star wants to share with the community life “Through Their Eyes”. The mission is simple…life skills, love, and support. Every youth/young adult needs these 3 things. Many who have been in the foster system, who have been left to learn life on their own, or are homeless, do not have any of these threeContinue reading “Only 2 Weeks Until the Inaugural Summer Garden Party Fundraiser”