According to the Dowagiac Daily News,
"How does an intelligent, vivacious young woman wearing a cross around her neck land in Cass County Family Treatment Court after losing her home and three children?
Jessica, a recovering drug addict and alcoholic, took her first drink at 12. At 14, “I not only drank, but I started smoking pot as well.”
Sweet 16? “I became severely addicted to cocaine, along with drinking and using pot every day,” which cost “thousands of dollars.”"
For more on Jessica's story and how Family Treatment Court, Hope's Door (a recovery residence), Southwestern Michigan Community College, and others helped her get a second chance, see:
www.dowagiacnews.com/2010/03/19/meth-addicted-mother-of-three-turning-her-life-around-slowly/
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This young lady now has her own apartment, is enrolled in her second semester of college and has had her children returned to her custody. All by chance. I think not! It takes a community willing to put supports in place for offenders. Willing to take a chance of people who have no "frame of reference" for right choices. It pays. And now the next generation, her 3 children, have a chance to grow up, not in the system, not incarcerated and not addicted.
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