The New Opportunity School for Women challenges Appalachian women to live their best lives.
The New Opportunity School for Women is a nonprofit that empowers women to overcome past traumas and heal. Our programs offer space for looking inward. They build confidence so steps toward education, employment and financial independence no longer seem unattainable.
Transforming pain into confidence
We support women along each step of their journey.
How to Help
There are many ways to connect and make a difference
Our History
NOSW founder Jane Stephenson calls it “a miracle program.” NOSW history is an amazing story!
For Over
33 Years
Impacting Over
768 Women
Through Over
72 Residential Sessions
News & Events
Find out about what NOSW is doing.
Two graduates help others in recovery
Sheila Brown and Tami Gentry are friends, fellow Clark Countians, NOSW graduates and women in recovery who are using their experiences to help other women. Recovery from addiction is a long journey. Tami is seven years clean, and Sheila will be four…
From passion to purpose: what makes you light up?
Every woman has a story. “This story is also what leads us to finding our purpose, our reason for being and our way of serving the world,” said Alys Smith, an NOSW board member who recently led an online workshop on personal empowerment for NOSW…
