Below is an email we received this week from a former client who was with us in 2000, well over 20 years ago. I appreciate emails like this because it says we've been making a difference in the community for a long time. The email reads:
"I was at the Roosevelt House
in Phoenix in July of 2000. I came in with 6 months of sobriety but was headed
back out before I entered and given a safe place to stay sober.
I was hired as an
assistant manager and in October sent to Southern House in Mesa, where I was made
an Assistant Manager. I was inducted as
a blue shirt and eventually promoted to manager, until I had a resident pass
away due to an overdose. When my supervisor came in, he had no compassion. He said I was too thin-skinned and wanted me
to take a drug test which I refused. I admit my pride may
have gotten in the way, but I really had things to take care of in Indiana - where
my mother was dying.
Well to get to the
reason I am writing is I now have 23 years 3 months clean and even through some
tragedy I have remained sober, And this is because of the tools TLC gave me to learn to face
the world head on.
I want to thank TLC for
everything they gave me. I like to think I’m a success story. But I didn't do
it alone."
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