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Goodwill shoppers and donors help students earn diplomas, degrees — and a fresh start

Goodwill’s brand is well-known, but its free classes for adults seeking to finish high school, and earn college credits, is unfamiliar to many of the shoppers and donors who make the classes possible.

Tamico Flack, a recent graduate of the Goodwill Helms Academy in Stratford, displays the title of a self-help book she's written. The Helms Academy helps adults like Flack earn high school diplomas and college credits.
Tamico Flack, a recent graduate of the Goodwill Helms Academy in Stratford, displays the title of a self-help book she's written. The Helms Academy helps adults like Flack earn high school diplomas and college credits.Read moreSTEVEN M. FALK / Staff Photographer