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 the childcare...

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 are given the...

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 Service (USFWS),...