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NYSED Office of Adult Career and Continuing Education Services (ACCES). ACCES is overseen by the Office of Adult Education Programs and Policy (AEPP).
This site is showcases the achievements of adult students in the Hudson Valley/Catskill region.
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VIVE School Pathways to Success (Maham Mushtaq)
Maham Mushtaq is a Pakistani born young women who turns 19 later this month. She is from a family of 5. Mom and dad are here in Yonkers with her and one sister lives in London and another in Pakistan. This international family has quite a history!
In 2008, she came to America accompanying her mother who was in need of a liver transplant. When her mom's surgery was done, Maham cared for her for a year, missing an entire year of high school.
VIVE School Pathways to Success (Christopher Pope)
A man on the upward move in life - that's Christopher Pope. Christopher was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York with his three brothers and three sisters. His mother, a church deacon, has always been a strong influence in his life encouraging her children to complete their education. But education was not to be in the picture for him, when at seventeen he found himself becoming a father. In order to support his daughter, Shabrea, he dropped out of the tenth grade and worked at different unskilled jobs. By twenty-one Christopher left New York and went to North Carolina to care for his ailing grandmother who had heart problems. While bringing his grandmother back to New York, she passed away at her sister's house.
VIVE School Pathways to Success (Chante Martin)
Where do you go when you spend a good part of your life in homeless shelters? Ask Chante Martin. She is Yonkers born who started her life with her mother and two younger brothers homeless and in and out of shelters. Her school years were spent at Enrico Fermi and Roosevelt High School. She ended up in a shelter in Ossining and attended Ossining High School.
Chante dropped out of school and gave birth at sixteen to a son, Christopher. She lived at WESTHELP, a shelter operated by WESTHAB, for those who have babies under five. Though she had no diploma, she trained in a local program and graduated as a medical assistant. Unfortunately, Chante was unable to continue because by now drugs had claimed her life.
SW BOCES GED student
Monica Victoria became a single mother with no high school diploma. She joined Southern Westchester BOCES, Adult Education, and got her GED. This fall she will be a freshman at Nyack College. Monica spoke at Southern Westchester BOCES' student recognition ceremony, where she says that Southern Westchester BOCES was "The best $10 I ever spent."
Monica Victoria's speech:
I just moved and I am tired. I have moved many times, I have even moved from NY to HI and back again, twice. We have all moved at one time or another. But wherever you move, whether close by or far away, upsize or downsize, moving is a lot of work. You have to pack up all your belongings. Things get lost; damaged. You get rid of things, sell, give away, throw away and buy new things. A lot of work goes into moving and it’s not easy, so I’m very tired. But there is an aspect of moving that I do love. Every single time I have moved, it’s like a fresh start; a clean slate, something new, something different. And that is what obtaining my GED has been for me; A FRESH START, a clean slate, something new, something different.
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