Brad Allard talks with Jana Myers, education director at Next Step Women's Center, about the programs helping local parents build stronger, more stable families.

Myers shares how classes in budgeting, responsible credit use, child development, and parenting empower clients while the center's boutique provides diapers, clothing, and other essentials through a points-based “bonus bucks” system.

The episode highlights the center's extraordinary material impact—including 194,000 diapers distributed in the previous year—and its Christmas in July campaign to restock new or handmade toys and books that encourage imaginative, screen-free play. They also discuss collaboration among area nonprofits and the center's upcoming 40th-anniversary gala on October 15.