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Student Success Stories: Valerie Vaughn
Posted: 8/3/2010
 Valerie Vaughn was staring into the jaws of a double whammy that would have caused many people to give up. She endured the disaster caused by the December 2007 flood, then in January 2008 she was laid off from her job. Unemployed but undaunted she looked for options. She explored retraining programs at Centralia College that could get her back into the workforce but she also needed financial support.
"It was hard because it had been 30 years since I was in school. My math skills were such that I didn't want to go to college as a youth," said Vaughn. She realized she had to overcome that barrier since going to college was her best option. She found her way to the Worker Retraining office at the college, where as a dislocated worker she was surrounded by others treading the same troubled waters: people out of work, needing financial and emotional help to get back on their feet.
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