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The CareerPoint Early Childhood Education Cohort in front of OFS on graduation day, June, 4, 2026. Pictured: (left-right) CareerPoint Coordinator Nicole Knox, Tati, Ana, Yaya, Eddie, Miriam, Janie, and 4-C’s Early Childhood Specialist Briana Kurlinkus. Operation Fresh Start (OFS) recently celebrated six graduates of its CareerPoint Early Childhood Education cohort, a six-week training program that helps young adults build the skills, experience, and confidence needed to enter

Public Officials and OFS partners join leadership and Build Academy staff and participants in front of 1061 Kamperschroer Way in Sun Prairie. On a sunny May afternoon in Sun Prairie, Operation Fresh Start participants stood inside a home they helped build—one that represents far more than finished walls and fresh paint. The house at 1061 Kamperschroer Way in Town Hall Crossing reflects months of skill-building, persistence, and growth, showing what happens when young adults a

OFS participants testing out the hoses used to control prairie burns. Earth Day at Operation Fresh Start isn’t symbolic. It’s hands-on, technical, and grounded in real work. At CamRock County Park in Cambridge, all OFS Legacy and Conservation Academy crews spent the day, Thursday, April 30, rotating through field stations led by Dane County Parks, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Dane County Land & Water Resources Department (LWRD), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife

The Dane County Community Restorative Court Staff (L-R): Program Leader Donnetta Foxx, Social Worker Riley Bremmer, Social Worker Rebeca Repaal, Social Worker Supervisor Stephanie Marino, Data Analyst Michele Johnson, Program Leader Teresa Tellez-Giron, and Program Leader Jackie Hammond. At Operation Fresh Start (OFS), we often say that every young person is an asset in our community. Through our partnership with Dane County Community Restorative Court (CRC), that belief beco