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To honor, recognize, and celebrate the perseverance and achievements of Ms. Kelli Rudie - the 2017 New Directions Career Center Woman of Promise.
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WHEREAS, New Directions Career Center (NDCC) has been empowering women in transition to achieve and maintain self-sufficiency since 1980 - each April, NDCC recognizes an outstanding graduate who has obtained the toolkit of skills learned at the Center and used them to build a new life for herself and her family - exemplifying the qualities of an empowered woman: confidence, courage, hope, focus, and success in accordance with her own personal definition - this year the New Directions Career Center is proud to recognize Ms. Kelli Rudie as the 2017 Woman of Promise honoree; and
WHEREAS, Kelli struggled to support herself and her family - she left a career as a special education teacher to pursue work as a home health care aide; however this didn’t reduce her struggles, so Kelli began pursing alternative employment without much success - however Kelli’s determination to be self-sufficient and improve her ailing physical and emotional health never wavered; and
WHEREAS, In 2015, Kelli felt as if she was out of options - determined to persevere, she began to attend programs at NDCC - programs that ultimately helped her to develop a vision of the career woman she wanted to be - in time, she emerged with a renewed sense of acceptance, hope, and confidence - Kelli left the NDCC with a purpose, a career goal, a new strategy for resiliency in navigating the work world, and an ongoing support system; and
WHEREAS, Kelli’s graduation from NDCC was not the end of her journey - she continued to take advantage NDCC’s myriad of services and was quickly hired as a full-time Office Manager with benefits at Xanitos, which supports a local hospital - the position also allows her to use her influence to hire and refer job opportunities to encourage and assist other NDCC graduates in their employment search; and
WHEREAS, ND...
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