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I wonder as I develop this web site how many of the visitors who take time to
read and reflect on the contents have ever been homeless, helpless and
hopeless. To be young, alone and without the experiential wisdom, the skills
for living, the support of a loving family and the financial resources to survive
is an experience to horrific to express in words.
I speak from experience having spent years of my younger life in group
homes, institutions and living in the streets. At the age of fifteen, I became
homeless and by sixteen I had become a hard core narcotics addict. My
journey through hell ended when I was 30 on a hospital gurney in a New
England city addicted to narcotics and acutely alcoholic, a knife wound in my
abdomen, Hepatitis C, cirrhosis of the liver, cellulitis in my hands and arms
and a broken bone or two. I was alone and dying.
Almost 30 years later, I am truly grateful to be alive and I try to pass it forward.
read and reflect on the contents have ever been homeless, helpless and
hopeless. To be young, alone and without the experiential wisdom, the skills
for living, the support of a loving family and the financial resources to survive
is an experience to horrific to express in words.
I speak from experience having spent years of my younger life in group
homes, institutions and living in the streets. At the age of fifteen, I became
homeless and by sixteen I had become a hard core narcotics addict. My
journey through hell ended when I was 30 on a hospital gurney in a New
England city addicted to narcotics and acutely alcoholic, a knife wound in my
abdomen, Hepatitis C, cirrhosis of the liver, cellulitis in my hands and arms
and a broken bone or two. I was alone and dying.
Almost 30 years later, I am truly grateful to be alive and I try to pass it forward.
18 and Shattered
Many of these kids aging out of foster care will follow similar paths. They will spend their lives in and out of jails and
institutions or die. Many of them will die with no one there at their bedside. They will never have learned to live and
they never would have known what normal is or what it feels like to be loved. They have been thrown away, first by their
parents and then, upon their 18th birthday, by society (If you are interested in learning what their chances are, click
here.) Each of us can make a difference. Sometimes it only takes one kind gesture to alter a persons direction in life. If
you would like to help a child by becoming a mentor or wish to make a donation , please contact us - 772-469-5601
or use our contact form. Someone will get back to you shortly.
institutions or die. Many of them will die with no one there at their bedside. They will never have learned to live and
they never would have known what normal is or what it feels like to be loved. They have been thrown away, first by their
parents and then, upon their 18th birthday, by society (If you are interested in learning what their chances are, click
here.) Each of us can make a difference. Sometimes it only takes one kind gesture to alter a persons direction in life. If
you would like to help a child by becoming a mentor or wish to make a donation , please contact us - 772-469-5601
or use our contact form. Someone will get back to you shortly.
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