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Article: HOMELESS WOMEN, CHILDREN FIND REFUGE THE GATHERING PLACE OFFERS SUPPORT WHILE MOTHERS LEARN SKILLS.(City Desk/Local)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- December 30, 2002
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Byline: Paul Willis
SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
If Rachel has a distinguishing personality trait, it is that she is not a quitter.
But when she decided to experiment with crack, that trait sent her life into a spiral.
``I was a single mother of two and losing the fight of life,'' she said.
But she turned her life around with help from The Gathering Place, a Denver-based daytime refuge for homeless women and children.
Jean Iadevito, the center's adult education coordinator, noticed that Rachel had an interest in computers. So Iadevito helped her channel her energies toward the keyboard instead of the crack pipe.