05/21/2026
Last week, our F5 Project - Minot team walked alongside a participant whose biggest obstacle to rebuilding his life was simply this: he didn't have identification.
What followed was a month of persistence - phone calls, emails, driving back and forth between social security offices, social service offices, previous job sites, Hirequest, Probation office, DMVs, hotels, treatments, reaching out to other states, colleges, law offices, problem solving during a statewide F5 Project brainstorming session, contacting countless non-profits, fellow agencies, our Federal Delegation, and more.
After a 16-hour and 1,000 mile road trip - he finally has the necessary documents for identification and employment!
Thank you to every agency and person who has been involved in this process! This is the kind of work that often goes unseen. Not because it is small; but because it takes patience, persistence, and people refusing to give up.
At F5 Project, this is what reentry and recovery support looks like in real life.
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