Deseret Industries

Where available, Deseret Industries thrift stores and donation centers provide a variety of opportunities to help individuals gain valuable skills, work experience, and training. Job coaches assist members by providing personal on-the-job mentoring. Placement services are also provided to help members transition to long-term employment.

Development Counseling Services

Development Counseling Services assists Church leaders in helping individuals who have significant barriers that prevent them from achieving long-term self-reliance, such as lack of skills, mental health issues, physical disability, criminal history, substance abuse issues, or any other vocational impairment. Services include career assessments, planning and coaching, coordination of educational and certified vocational training programs, funding resources and on-the-job training opportunities.

LDS Family Services

LDS Family Services help Church leaders care for individuals with social and emotional challenges by providing resources that are in harmony with gospel principles. Resources include consultations for Church leaders, counseling services, single expectant parent services, adoption consultation and referrals, and support groups to help individuals overcome pornography use and other harmful behaviors, such as alcohol and drugs.

BYU Pathway Worldwide

Winter Enrollment: Closes January 1st

Spring Enrollment: Closes April 16th

Fall Enrollment: Closes September 10th

The PathwayConnect program (formerly called Pathway) is a low-cost, one-year educational opportunity that combines online courses with local gatherings. PathwayConnect helps people start or return to college at a fraction of the cost of other colleges.

After completing the PathwayConnect program, students can automatically be admitted to BYU-Idaho on campus at the typical cost, or continue online at a reduced price. Students will also receive the spiritual benefits of a gospel-incorporated education.

https://www.byupathway.org/

Ministering Resources

Ministering Resources is a website created to assist Church leaders as they respond to the specific

challenges members face, such as abuse, addiction, marital conflict, mental health, missionaries who return

home early, pornography, same-sex attraction, suicide, and many other issues. Ministering Resources is

accessible to members of ward and stake councils, and provides easy access to resources such as gospel

teachings, scripture references, assessment tools, and Church policies.

Hope and Help

Life brings many challenges for every member of the human family. Some challenges are the result of unwise choices that all of us make from time to time. Other challenges may have nothing to do with our choices at all but are the result of others’ actions. This resource features topics and videos in areas such as addiction, adoption, Death, Suicide, pornography, Pregnancy, Mormon and Gay, and many other topics.