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Serenity House founders in Clarks Dr. Dennis They had known the house as a child and can that displaced families in Clarks relate. She received $ 31.130 as Community Health Grants found the workshop of his new women. Anyssa Roberts | USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee

Dennis, CEO and founder of Serenity House shelter for women in Clarksville, knows that the struggle of the homeless families face every day. She used to be homeless.

"We were in shelters, we were in the houses of family, we where we were were able to lay his head," Dennis said. "You can look at me and know that I have never been in this situation."

Dennis received a grant of $ 31.130 form the Community Foundation of Clarksville Montgomery County Health January 25 healthy women series of material life of the shelter recently.

The series will focus on mental and emotional from physical to different areas of women's health.

Each class is led by an expert in the field, and is comfortable.

As Dennis in ninth grade was in Champaign, Illinois, strove for them to keep their mother a house and their children.

You, the oldest, and his brothers often school they missed from hut to hut moved, and had to take on the role of mother.

"If he had left for a certain time, for some reason, I went and did what I had to do," he said.

It refers to women and children who see and some of their experiences because of what has happened.

"I know that food stamps, I know about WIC, know what it is to have nothing to eat," he said. "... And was out of the way going to college forget whose, I'll never where I came because God has just been so good to me."

Dennis went to high school to finish and later received his Bachelor, Master and PhD.

His dissertation examined the effects of homelessness on children. At the end of his career he was inspired to open a refuge.

Serenity House opened in 2012 and has women and homeless children supported as they try to find protection and keep their families.

Clarksville has 144 occupied accommodation within five homeless shelters beds, according to Keith Lampkin Clarks Department of Housing and Community Development. Lampkin actively seeks to fight homelessness with new initiatives and partnerships with organizations such as the Serenity House.

"The goal is to allow our women," he said. "The fact that they had cast as a bad card game for a short time does not mean that you stay in the same position as you are."

The first session will begin on February 27 in the Tree of Life Centre. Child care provided. To login, please contact Lowleta Kimble at 931-431-8130 or online at serenityhouse@serenityhouseshelter.com.

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