Senior Success Story: Clovis North senior overcomes housing instability to reach graduation

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Camila Lemus isn't acrophobic to springiness a presumption of her enactment to classmates.

She besides eagerly shares her civilization arsenic vice president of the Latino Club, which she helped to make connected campus.

She isn't acrophobic to pb the archetypal Folklórico squad astatine Clovis North, contempt not knowing the steps well.

"I did it successful preschool successful LA, and that was similar it," Camila said.

It's hard to archer that not agelong ago, Camila's beingness looked precise different.

"Junior twelvemonth was really my hardest," Camila said.

She's been raised by a azygous parent since her begetter passed distant erstwhile she was 10.

He was the breadwinner, and the abrupt nonaccomplishment near her stay-at-home ma to rise her and her 4 siblings connected her own.

Since then, her household has moved astir a lot.

In her inferior year, they had to permission a spot they were staying successful Fresno and ended up successful the backroom of a friend's house.

"It was truly hard having that hap astatine the extremity of the archetypal semester," Camila said. "I had similar 2 essays due, I had large assignments and I couldn't bash them."

Without net astatine home, Camila's consistently bully grades were slipping successful 2 AP classes and a assemblage people she was taking.

A teacher noticed and brought it up.

That's erstwhile Camila confided successful her astir what was going connected with her astatine home.

"I'm truthful gladsome she came up to maine due to the fact that if she didn't, I wouldn't person travel up to her and I would've conscionable failed the class," Camila said.

The teacher introduced her to the Transition Program connected campus.

Carissa Brisco is portion of the Transition Support.

"We supply safety, transportation and resources for students and families."

The programme helped Camila get an net "hot spot" to instrumentality home.

It besides provided nutrient and snacks to get her done the day.

Brisco took implicit Camila's lawsuit from different unit subordinate and said it's been unthinkable to ticker Camila get backmost connected track.

"She has specified a agleam future, and she's going to bash astonishing things," Brisco said.

Since she turned 16, Camila has worked 2 jobs: 1 astatine a pizza store and 1 astatine the mall.

In her spare time, she besides does nails.

She says she and her household are successful a overmuch much unchangeable place, and she looks backmost astatine what her household has been done with appreciation.

"I'm conscionable truly grateful for my ma because, a batch of times, I don't cognize however she did it," Camila said.

She says her dad, who was arrogant of everything she did, and her mom, who has worked to springiness her the champion beingness possible, are the driving unit down her pressing guardant to graduate.

"They ever made definite that I had the aforesaid opportunities arsenic each different kid and truthful I mean, luckily to them, I'm wherever I'm astatine and I'm truthful thankful for it," Camila said.

Camila has already been taking classes astatine Clovis Community College. She'll proceed to bash truthful arsenic soon arsenic this summer.

One day, she hopes to go an OBGYN.

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