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We witness a graduation ceremony for an extraordinary set of women...These eight women have endured homelessness - as mothers. At some point in the last two years, they enrolled in INNterim Housing, a Maryland non-profit that treats the women in a very hands-on and holistic approach. INNterim teaches life skills like cooking, cleaning, and caring for their children, but it also offers the women career-building services to get the women out of the minimum wage lifestyle. Financial literacy classes are a big part of INNterim Housing. The women pull themselves out of debt. And a big part of the program focuses on homeownership - many of the graduates become homeowners.
Broadcast History
It originally aired on the arts and cultural magazine radio show, Friday May 11th.
Transcript
What says Spring better than a graduation ceremony?
It?s a time for new life.
And a graduation can force people to pause ? recognize that accomplishment.
For eight women in Baltimore County ? this is about recreating, re-designing their lives.
And it sounds like an almost unbelievable story.
These eight women are graduating from the ?Innterim Housing? program ? a Maryland nonprofit that has a quite stunning outlook ?
One of our mantras is from ?homelessness to home ownership? when the women come into the program ? often the only things they are conditioned to look forward to is section 8, rental subsidies.
Ca Sandra Winchester is the executive director of Innterim Housing.
You can be a homeowner.
Homelessness. To homeownership.
All the women who are graduating on this day ? and their children were formerly homeless.
As they leave Innterim Housing, t...
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Timing and Cues
It?s the time of year ? for celebrations of all sorts: proms, weddings, graduations. Contributor Mary Rose Madden joins our program with a story about one such event she recently had the privilege of
witnessing - a graduation ceremony for some truly exceptional graduates.
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