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SUCCESS STORY FELICIA GILES YEAR: 1990s Felicia Giles was first introduced to El Nido Family Centers at the age of 16, shortly after she’d given birth to her first child, when a woman she didn’t know came to her bedside and left a pamphlet describing El Nido and its services. With an ill mother who died of cervical cancer three months after Felicia gave birth, and a frequently absent father, Felicia was looking for all the help she could get, and She received her AA degree with a major in sociology at Southwest College and for the past eleven years has been employed by Cedars Sinai Medical Center, achieving her certification as a Certified Professional Coder (CPC) six years ago. Felicia’s long-term goals are to operate a medical coding and consulting business, to travel (especially to Paris and to Italy) and to write her El Nido was there for her. WITH AN ILL MOTHER autobiography to help WHO DIED OF girls to learn the things Felicia’s case manager, Sandra CERVICAL CANCER they need to know, so Seymour, came to visit her in the THREE MONTHS AFTER they can avoid one day hospital the next day and with FELICIA GAVE BIRTH saying to themselves her joyful enthusiasm, big smile AND A FREQUENTLY “if I only knew.” and patient willingness to help, ABSENT FATHER, she immediately got Felicia moving in the right direction. In the two years that Felicia was an El Nido client, she was able to go back to school and get her GED, to learn from her parent education classes how to FELICIA WAS LOOKING FOR ALL THE HELP SHE COULD GET, AND EL NIDO WAS THERE FOR HER. The life lesson Felicia wants to impart to her three children – Chris (Age 26), Brandon (Age 23) and Lauren (Age 9) – is to stay focused on your dreams. No matter be a good parent, to broaden her horizons with numerous field trips to various places of interest, and to gain both insight and confidence from the counseling she received from El Nido counselors. From her experiences with El Nido, Felicia learned that there were people outside her family who cared about her and wanted her to succeed in life. how bumpy the road, you have to get up and keep trying because everyone has a purpose in life; you just have to find out what it is and then pursue it. For anyone unfamiliar with El Nido, Felicia wants them to know that El Nido has a truly exceptional mentoring program which provides help to those who need it. "No matter how bumpy the road, you have to get up and keep trying because everyone has a purpose in life; you just have to find out what it is and then pursue it" 8
From her experiences with El Nido, Felicia learned that there were people outside her family who cared about her and wanted her to succeed in life. 9
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