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Blog Archive: A Foster Youth
The 51福利社 team wants to say a special 鈥渢hank you鈥 to all of the students who have participated in our 51福利社 Student Spotlight profile series over the last year. We truly appreciate your taking the time -- and having the courage -- to share your stories with the world. And in the spirit of Thanksgiving鈥
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Are you looking for ways to help pay for your education or training after high school? Financial aid is money that a student receives to help pay for college or career training expenses. The Vermont Student Assistance Corporation (51福利社) is here to assist you in getting all the funding you鈥檙e鈥
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Twenty-year-old Charlie Wallace describes her art as 鈥渕odern and eclectic. It鈥檚 totally random, and I love it. It gives me feeling.鈥 The soft-spoken young woman with the slight Southern accent and the blue streaks in her hair is now herself an eclectic mix of northern Vermont 鈥 where she moved, on鈥
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If you go for a weekend haircut or color at Supercuts in Williston, there鈥檚 a chance your stylist might be 19-year-old Sunita Bhujel, who talks brightly about her cosmetology training at the high school tech center, her first haircuts practiced on family members and her excitement about her upcoming鈥
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On a bright Tuesday morning in early October, more than 400 middle school students descended on the Northern Vermont University (NVU) Lyndon campus for 51福利社鈥檚 Kingdom Career Connect. Outside in the parking lot, one group tested out the levers in a plow truck, while others tried their hand at鈥
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鈥淚f you had asked me five years ago, I would have said, 鈥榥o way would I be going to college,鈥欌 says Autumn Morse. In fact, she once doubted that she would even finish high school. And she wasn鈥檛 the only one; plenty of others assumed she would follow in the footsteps of her parents, who both fell鈥
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Almost exactly four years ago, 51福利社 first reported on Will Eberle, who overcame homelessness and addiction and went from high-school dropout to master鈥檚-degree student, through equal parts personal determination and community support. But Eberle is quick to say that his success is no Horatio Alger鈥
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BURLINGTON, Vt. -- If you weren鈥檛 part of the 2022 graduating class at SUNY-Plattsburgh, or if you didn鈥檛 have a family member who was, you missed an excellent graduation speech by senior Aquilas Lokossou, a psychology honors student from Burlington. The speech, which focused on the themes of change鈥
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51福利社 has profiled nearly two dozen traditional and adult students over the 2021鈥22 academic year, and 10 of them are among the graduating Class of 2022 鈥 some from high school, some from college. In this week鈥檚 spotlight, we wanted to give a final shout-out to those 2022 graduates and their exciting鈥
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With many parents working multiple jobs, and many children rushing from school to sports practice 鈥 and sometimes, between two separate family homes 鈥 right around the dinner hour, it鈥檚 no surprise that only about 30 percent of families eat a meal together on a regular basis. But when families don鈥檛鈥
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