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Kathy Johnson (helping student) is one of two teachers at Mankato Central Freedom School. The sober school also employs two alcohol and drug counselors to help maintain the sobriety of 24 students.
Pat Christman / The Free Press


Students at Central Freedom School hosted a free Thanksgiving dinner last week for community donors and area providers for the school. Central Freedom is intensifying fundraising efforts to help keep the school open.
Tanner Kent / The Free Press


Freedom School runs into financial bind

By Tanner Kent
Free Press Staff Writer

The most debilitating effect on students, he said, is the loss of a sober peer group. Students who return to their home schools too soon run severe risk of falling back into the same patterns and temptations.

“Those kids disappear,” Blazing said. “They get back into criminal behavior or using. Without (programs like Freedom School), there are just not a whole lot of options for them.”

To donate or request more information, contact Mankato Central Freedom School at 507-387-2794 or campaign director Norleen Rans at 507-625-4948.



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