Bristol Herald Courier from Bristol, Tennessee (2024)

April 5, 1992

Publication:

Bristol Herald Courieri

Location:

Bristol, Tennessee

Issue Date:

Sunday, April 5, 1992

Page:

29

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We have a prac tice project each week or example the finandal unit induded working! out a realistic budget In the self ad vocacy segment students are given the task of knowing their wants and I Almond said But they are not just cut loose to do it irst the dass discusses Rent Gas I Electricity Phone urniture 1 Grocer Spending ood Clothes matter what their situa tion they all seemed to feel there was no one else like them You can tell them not the only said Almond but unless there is peer support and a means to cope with troubling situations it does no good Although some of the 29 who have partidpated in the workshops so far have been displaced employ ees many of the ladies said Al mond have not worked outside the The right to choose not to as home and are suffering from low sen yoursen the foundation on which a lO unit workshop teaching Survi 'val Skills for Women is based had been with Alliance for Business Training (ABT) for six years when I realized we needed something more for some of the la dies who come through our other programs We were seeing such feel ings of powerlessness and hopeless said Peggy Almond Survival Skills facilitator Jk i fa AlesM'sJSjlls uA Check $62500 i rV'iiif rtr 5 1 i.

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