{"id":528,"date":"2023-06-27T13:51:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T18:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irp.wisc.edu\/MadisonForwardFund\/?p=528"},"modified":"2025-05-05T09:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:34:11","slug":"bresha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irp.wisc.edu\/MadisonForwardFund\/2023\/06\/27\/bresha\/","title":{"rendered":"Bresha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-509 size-medium alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irp.wisc.edu\/MadisonForwardFund\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Bresha-2023-600x600-1-300x300.png\" alt=\"Bresha a Madison Forward Fund Program participant\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irp.wisc.edu\/MadisonForwardFund\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Bresha-2023-600x600-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.irp.wisc.edu\/MadisonForwardFund\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Bresha-2023-600x600-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.irp.wisc.edu\/MadisonForwardFund\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Bresha-2023-600x600-1-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/www.irp.wisc.edu\/MadisonForwardFund\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Bresha-2023-600x600-1.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-528-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irp.wisc.edu\/MadisonForwardFund\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Bresha-Final-Audio.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irp.wisc.edu\/MadisonForwardFund\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Bresha-Final-Audio.mp3\">https:\/\/www.irp.wisc.edu\/MadisonForwardFund\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Bresha-Final-Audio.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bresha is a passionate mom of three kids, ages 9, 5, and 4 years old. Her younger two children have autism, so she spends a lot of her time navigating resources to support them, such as researching school options and finding therapy. She has become an expert on local resources for kids with special needs and has taken on leadership roles in helping other families in Madison navigate these resources, as well, because she knows how confusing and overwhelming it can be for those just getting started.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bresha says the MFF funds have helped improve her mental health, and provided a source of emergency funds for unexpected expenses. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGuaranteed income has definitely brought down some of my stress.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, she used some of the money to buy tires for her car. The part she\u2019s most excited about, though, is that she recently started her own cleaning business. She hopes this will allow her to save enough money to eventually open a respite center for families in Madison with children with special needs, which is her real passion and long-term goal. She says the funds from MFF helped create a little more room in her budget so she could take the first step towards her dream.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><div class=\"su-quote su-quote-style-default\"><div class=\"su-quote-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\"><\/i><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guaranteed income has definitely brought down some of my stress.<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<a href=\"\/MadisonForwardFund\/stories\/\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-default\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#0479a8;border-color:#046187;border-radius:0px\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:0px 30px;font-size:22px;line-height:44px;border-color:#50a2c3;border-radius:0px;text-shadow:none\"> Back to Stories<\/span><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGuaranteed income has definitely brought down some of my stress.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irp.wisc.edu\/MadisonForwardFund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irp.wisc.edu\/MadisonForwardFund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irp.wisc.edu\/MadisonForwardFund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irp.wisc.edu\/MadisonForwardFund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irp.wisc.edu\/MadisonForwardFund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.irp.wisc.edu\/MadisonForwardFund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"https:\/\/www.irp.wisc.edu\/MadisonForwardFund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irp.wisc.edu\/MadisonForwardFund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irp.wisc.edu\/MadisonForwardFund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irp.wisc.edu\/MadisonForwardFund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}