Ms. Ellis is a recent State Fair Community College at Eldon Career Center Nursing, ASN program graduate. She passed her NCLEX-RN and was issued an RN license in January 2022. She is now employed as a Registered Nurse with Lake Regional Health Systems Clinic, working...
Samantha Woodruff has had a passion to help others the same way she was helped through her own recovery process, but she wasn’t exactly sure how to make that happen. Sober for almost 5 years, Samantha knows what if feels like to be at the bottom, but she also...
As the summer of 2020 approached, things were looking grim for Kimberly Fisher. Unemployed due to COVID-19, life for her was uncertain. “I didn’t know what I was going to do in order to provide for myself,” said Kimberly. Although I was looking for...
Melissa enrolled in the WIOA Adult program in 2019. She worked full time earning $13.75 per hour while going to school full time. Melissa graduated from State Fair Community College in December with an Associate’s Degree in Nursing. She passed the State...
When I (Sundi Jo Graham) first met Dennis Gaffney, I asked him why he wanted to do something different with his life. Though I’d heard the answer from others many times before, through the tone of his voice and the pain in his eyes, I knew he meant it. “I want to be a...
Funding from the MO Works Together Grant was the opportunity Abby Helton of Lebanon, Mo., desperately needed. She successfully completed training to become a Certified Pet Groomer, allowing her to obtain her “dream job”. “It’s still pretty...
