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NORTHWEST OHIO’S OLDEST AFRICAN AMERICAN-OWNED WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TJ THE TOLEDO JOURNAL www.thetoledojournal.com WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 2021 - MARCH 23, 2021 VOL: 44 NO: 34 INSIDE SECTIONQUESTION TITLE Ms. Stephanie Boutté & Ternion Training and Quem,What are no. you Od Education Center – Impacting Lives by Changing doingCatiam with comni your- urbem quo ut, stimulus check? Underestimated Communities for the Better By Michael Daniels Journal Staff Writer Too often we see commer- cials selling the educational dream about getting ahead in “ life by furthering your educa- School President tion. While the basic dream message may be true, the Ms. Stephanie Boutté one thing they often leave says she is here to change out is how much this dream will cost. “You can’t afford lives in the Toledo it,” many of these institutions community and make a EDITORIAL/NEWSSECTION TITLE say, “no problem, we will get Quem, no. Od you a student loan.” “difference. Jim Crow...Still Now all this sounds fine and CatiamFlying comniHigh - dandy at the time, until you urbem quo ut, graduate and then you realize its time to pay that loan back. And if you don’t, there goes your credit rating - down, down, down. “These types of commer- cials most often target the underserved, low-income, and minority populations.” says Ms. Stephanie Boutté, the President of Ternion Training and Education Center. “They don’t care about the personal debt you will accu- mulate while in school, their SECTIONCELEBRATING TITLE only concern is getting a Quem,WOMEN no. Od classroom full of students.” WomenCatiam Historycomni- She went on to explain, urbem quo ut, “This is the difference be- school education. Her family school. A day before gradua- She went back to school Makers Pg 7-9 tween Ternion Training and had a history of four gener- tion, the school got her a good and earned her four-year de- Education Center and the oth- ations of poverty. She knew job working at the courthouse gree. Upon graduating, she er schools. Our objective here getting an education was im- is to graduate exceptionally portant but in her present sit- trained, well-educated, and uation, mere day-to-day sur- work-ready students, who are vival took precedence over debt free, with an emphasis everything else. “We were on job placement after gradu- people who lived off the land. ation. Our ultimate goal is for I knew I was poor, but I also our students to achieve the knew I didn’t want to be poor success they dreamed of mi- all my life. I had dreams of PHOTO CREDIT / TOLEDO JOURNAL nus the regrets.” moving to the city and making Ternion Training and Education Center is located at 5212 Stephanie Boutté grew up it big.” she said. Hill Ave. (on the corner of Hill Ave. and Reynolds Rd.), for poor in a small town in Loui- At the age of seventeen, more information call 419-214-1333. SECTIONHEALTHY TITLE siana, where she was raised she moved to Houston to live Quem,AWARE no.NESS Od by her grandparents, who with her mother and was able both only had an elementary to attend a vocational training with a decent salary. This was went back to the vocation- CatiamAOoA Helpscomni - a life-changing event. She real school where she started urbemOlder Adultsquo ut, fers to it as “being exposed”, seeking employment. She in other words, she was ex- got hired to teach a business posed to things she had nev- class called Micro Comput- er experienced. er Technology, which was Ms. Boutté said she had great, except there was no never seen black people like curriculum, no books, or other that before. “All the women tools of learning in the class- wore nice business suits to room. The school put her in a work and the only place I had classroom of thirty-five young seen black women dressed black and Hispanic girls and that way was in church. They told her to teach. Most likely were all so articulate and so- these young girls had taken phisticated. I watched them out student loans to be there. buy new cars and pay their “The school had changed bills. Witnessing all these la- over the years, they no longer dies’ lifestyles made me want cared about their students, it too and I wanted to be just their only concern now was to like them. I had been exposed fill classrooms.” said Ms. Bout- to something different, some- té. “As I surveyed my class of PHOTO CREDIT / TOLEDO JOURNAL EVERYBODY IS thing new, and it was a life- all black and Hispanic girls, Executive Administrative Assistant Lisa Flemmings and style far away from poverty.” SOMEBODY IN School President Ms. Stephanie Boutté display TTEC she said. Continued on page 2. THE TOLEDO (Ternion Training and Education Center) school banner. JOURNAL TJ Inside News Page 2 • March 17, 2021 - March 23, 2021 • The Toledo Journal Ms. Boutté & Ternion Training and Education Center Continued from page 1. a resource that is available Ternion Training and Educa- I had a sense of Déjà vu and in every state of the union. In tion Center offers training in the I took it personally. I remem- Ohio it’s called, “Ohio Means following professional fields: bered when one of those little Jobs”. Using this resource Fiber Network Technician, girls was me. From that point combined with other local re- Medical Assistant certifica- on, it became my mission to sources a student could pur- tion, Phlebotomy Technician, make sure all these girls would sue a post-secondary educa- Computerized Accounting be successful. At the time I tion free or at a minimal cost. Specialist, Computerized Of- was married to a pro-athlete Effective use of these resourc- fice Administration, Heating, who gave me all the money I es was one of the of things Ventilation, Air Conditioning/ needed to buy books and oth- that made Ms. Boutté’s school Refrigeration (HVAC-R), and er materials for my class. I de- in Houston so successful. Network & Computer System signed my curriculum and off It wasn’t long before the cor- Administrator. to the races I went. I worked poration that owned Ternion hard and trained them in ev- Training and Education Center erything they needed to know. approached her When they finished my class, about coming to PHOTO CREDIT / TOLEDO JOURNAL work for them. they were all work-ready and I School President Ms. Stephanie Boutté supervises two was able to place every one of They wanted her students in the Medical Assistance Program at Ternion to start schools my students in a job position.” Training and Education Center. “As time passed, I witnessed like the one she started in Hous- the same cycle being repeat- give them exposure. I came Ms. Boutté went on to say, ton, across the ed, minority populations being to work dressed up as I did at “As my school grew and be- country. First targeted by these schools, and the courthouse. Utilizing ex- came successful, every grad- stop: Toledo, disadvantaged students being posure, I wanted my students uating class I had I was able Ohio. The com- saddled with student loan debt to aspire for better, as I did. I to offer my students 100% job pany realized as they attempted to improve wanted to open their minds to placement after graduating. they both had their situation through educa- the possibilities that lay ahead We became so popular the same goals tion. This really bothered me.” for them. I ended up teaching with employers they started and objectives, said Ms. Boutté. a whole variety of programs, coming to us looking for new which are: To of- “A friend of mine had sug- plus things I knew they need- potential employees.” During fer a superior ed- gested I should start my own ed to know in the real world, this period, she also did some ucation, provide school, so I took her advice like life skills, budgeting their extensive research on ways a graduation and and did just that. money, and how to use credit. disadvantaged student could job placement to PHOTO CREDIT / TOLEDO JOURNAL I started my own school in These were things I knew they further their education without the underserved, School President Ms. Stephanie Boutté Houston, Texas in 1998. When had not been exposed to. By going into debt with student without the enor- says she wants to be a part of the solu- I started my school, my main the time they graduated, they loans. She discovered a pro- mous debt of tion and not the problem when it comes objective was to help people were prepared and ready for gram called WIOA (Workforce student loans. to vocational education. get off welfare. I wanted to the world.” she said. Innovation Opportunity Act) Black history is an essential part of the history of our nation, our communities, and our company. Black associates have been key members of the Rudolph Libbe Group team since our earliest years. In a series of articles this year, we are celebrating the contributions of current associates and retirees and expressing our gratitude to them for being a part of the Rudolph Libbe Group. —Bill Rudolph, Chairman, Rudolph Libbe Group Kenetta Kay Jones was born in Toledo in 1954, a decade before the Civil Rights Act became law in 1964. “When I was born, minorities lived in certain areas because they were discriminated against in renting, buying a home or applying for a mortgage. If you didn’t live in the projects or low-income housing, you lived in segregated areas of Toledo.

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