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For
over a decade Jane Stephenson headed the New Opportunity School for
Women, a program she started in Berea to help women find ways to face
opportunity and conflict in their lives.
Financially distressed, often abused, perhaps out of work, maybe
middle-agedall the women who come to the New Opportunity School need
their job skills honed and their sense of self-worth illuminated.
In a
three-week residency program, Jane Stephensons program enables women
to believe in themselves, to gain self-esteem and the ability to solve
their own problems. They go
home changed women. Some
will go to college, some will get new jobs but all
leave with new
fortitude and a confirmation that women can make changes in their own
lives.
Jane is
also the author of the book Courageous Paths:
Stories of Nine Appalachian Women, in which 9 graduates of
the New Opportunity School share their life stories.
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