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Explore the Scholar House concept

May 15, 2025May 15, 2025 Kiesen Williams and Sreejita Patra

Watch this documentary video created by Sreejita Patra and Kiesen Williams about the Family Scholar House, a model program in Kentucky and a few other places that provides heavily subsidized housing to nontraditional adults seeking secondary degrees. Patra and Williams went to Kentucky with Odyssey’s Success Coach Brian Benford and other Odyssey folks to learn more.

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