NSV Radio: Streetwise Partners's Story

Ruth

Ruth grew up in D.C. and, as she describes it, “life was good.”

She graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in art, got married, and had two kids – all while continuing to teach. Then, her mother got sick.

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Hear Vocational Center Manager Matt LaBorde speak with two special guests: Richard McKey, Job Developer at AimHire, and Carol Day, a former participant at N Street Village.

Sherron

“I was born and raised in Washington, DC. I had a great life, a wonderful husband, two children, and a 23 year career with the Washington Police Department.” As a drastic before and after picture flashed upon the big screen, Lee shared, “At 36, I was at an emotionally distressed place. I turned to alcohol and then cocaine to fill the void, and I lost everything. I escaped to NY, and I experienced every bad thing that could happen to a woman on drugs in NY: I am the survivor of emotional, physical and sexual abuse.” Her turning point, she says, is when some police offers stopped to say hello to her, and she remembered a glimmer of her past life. She got on the Greyhound bus back to DC.