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“GED, job readiness, professional development, financial literacy – in partnership with TD Bank. I want to give folks sufficient tools so that they can go on to tomorrow and be successful,” Coleman said. “It was refreshing to find a place that sort of spoke my language, with people that look like me, and also a place that I could be open and myself and not be judged about it,” Rivera said.
“The STAR House was a space for runaways who use to hang out on the pier. They could go there and get whatever services that they needed,” Coleman said. “They were the first ones who recognized the need in housing within our community, so the STAR House was born.”
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