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Jennifer

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Jennifer West arrived for the Fall 2019 Residential Program after having just completed drug rehab. During those two weeks in Berea, the barriers and chains that had held her seemed to drop away, she explains. She learned it was okay to ask for help ... [Continue reading]

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Tami

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Tami is a 55-year-old native of Winchester, Ky. After breaking her shoulder in an accident, she developed an addiction to prescribed pain pills. For years, she was a functioning addict who managed to balance work and family in the throes of her ... [Continue reading]

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Sheila

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Sheila attended our three-day non-residential program in Winchester, KY in the summer of 2018 after hearing about it through a friend and fellow drug court alum. Determined to make her recovery from opiate addiction last, Sheila was looking for all ... [Continue reading]

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Nora

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Nora attended one of the first community-based workshops the New Opportunity School hosted in the summer of 2017. A resident of Laurel County, KY, Nora had been recently widowed and was in depression from that loss. Hoping to coax her out of her ... [Continue reading]

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Fran

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When Fran applied to attend NOSW’s residential program, she was at her lowest point in life. A native of Flat Gap in Johnson County, KY, she was nearing retirement age when she was unexpectedly let go from the nursing home where she had been employed ... [Continue reading]

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Bri

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As a young woman with high anxiety, Bri was unsure where to begin when it came to meeting the goals she wanted to achieve for herself. She worked with her mentor to figure out her passion and create an action plan for building a career in ... [Continue reading]

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Amanda

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Amanda chose to take the first step to change her life. Learning more about her Appalachian culture in the two-week residential program taught her to see herself, and the skills she’d developed, in a new and positive light. Amanda has always been a ... [Continue reading]

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