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August 13th, 2012
05:39 PM ET
Boot camp for the 'unemployable'
Brooke talks with lead job trainer Rob Smith about the new Sundance program "Get to Work" which provides a month-long boot camp to those considered 'unemployable'. This boot camp takes ex-convicts, ex-drug addicts, homeless people and others with extensive histories and teaches them how to find employment.
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I hope they're not a pell grant hustler trade school. I want no more Solyndras or never pay student ghost company.
What about Mothers of five,(just got the last one graduated!) Who has volunteered,and made sacrifices to her own career,in spite of her credentials.(Miss Los Angeles 82',a model and an actress, celebrity fund raiser for two organizations!) That was then,this is now!Have been on five committees,in the schools,plus ran the P.T.A.for one school year,ran the after school homework hour.Plus enrichment programs,Swing dance chess club volley ball.Healthy snack shack,and A's for cookies program.Was my son's lunch time fun time football coach,to promote exerciser in 5th grade.Then I became a Unity community team leader for the O.F.A.,and worked to get Obama elected with the D.N.C.Worked both 08',and 10' election cycles.As well as local campaign for Bob Filner for mayor.All the while finding out I'm related to Obama,the Queen,and Tammy Duckworth!And being a care giver for my elderly Mother who has had three different kind of cancers!"And I'm homeless,getting a divorce,and unemployed!" Hey the way I see it,"life could only get better at this point!"LOL (Maybe there's a place for me in this program?)