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ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº's One Crisis Away project focuses on North Texans living on the financial edge.

VIDEO: Meet Natalie Berquist, A Single Mom Rebuilding After A Layoff

ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº's series One Crisis Away looks at four families on the financial edge. In the video below, meet Natalie Berquist and her 4-year-old son, Samuel. Natalie was laid off late last year, and even though she was only unemployed for about a month, she's still digging out of the financial hole.

http://youtu.be/iV-Zrt98sV0

Learn more about Natalie and her journey

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.