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ALBANY, GA -- The Family Empowerment Center spent Friday graduating it's inaugural class of students.

With the program designed to prepare these adults for the real world job market, Executive Director Bridgett Mack says she believes it was a tremendous success.

"This is our first graduation ceremony from our job training program, we have four interns who will be graduating from the program and moving on to bigger endeavors," said Mack.

Mack hopes that the program will continue to find success over the next several years, building and growing these students into hard working individuals.