Financial Opportunity Center

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Juliana Gonzalez-Crussi, Center for Changing Lives

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Dec 13, 2019

Center for Changing Lives offers a bundled approach to help people work in tandem. They offer coaching, financial education, job prep and resource development to uncover career pathways.

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