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Article: Program Gives Boston-Area Job Seekers Boost in Health-Care Sector.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- November 24, 2003
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By Eun Lee Koh, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 24--When MaryEllen Woodman started classes last January to learn basic skills in health care, she saw herself only as a van driver, and as a single mother who had been on welfare, worked as a telemarketer, and once manned the cash register at a supermarket.
Almost a year later, she says she can now envision new ways to describe herself one day: as a nursing assistant, a receptionist at a hospital, or perhaps even a radiology technician.
Woodman, along with about 180 others, was among the first group of people to graduate this fall from the first phase of the ...