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Life Skills Program Held in Zanesville
ZANESVILLE, Ohio-Jennifer Hastings-Todd has a program in Zanesville aimed to help troubled teenagers.
The New Life Thrift and Skills Center is one half life skill workshop and one half thrift store. Troubled students are recruited from the Juvenile Detention Center and given jobs in the thrift store and taught life skills on Wednesday evenings.
“We work with teens between the ages of fourteen and seventeen who are into a little bit of mischief or who just need to learn life skills. They come and work the thrift store as part of their programming, and then they participate in life skills classes for independent living, before we actually place them in jobs in the community,” Hastings-Todd said.