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With over 70 years’ experience helping one unique soul after
another find a way out of homelessness and addiction,
UGM has established a pathway to a better life for anyone willing to take the first step.
Step 1: Safety.
Before an individual in crisis can effectively build a better life, they need a safe place to stabilize. A clean and sober environment, safe people, warm meals, medical attention, and basic resources provide the soil where hope can grow.
Step 2: A plan.
Once basic needs are met, men and women can start to face the issues that have perpetuated their unwanted situation. Through case management, employment therapy, or holistic recovery, they can form a plan that will move them toward new life.
Step 3: Time.
To overcome a lifetime of trauma and addiction takes time. Those who make it past 5 years of sobriety have an 85% chance of continuing for life. It takes ongoing mentorship, employment, housing, childcare, and a supportive community.
Community.
This is the framework encompassing the entire process. Change doesn’t happen in isolation, but within a safe, healing community. People hurt us; people will help heal us. We must come alongside those in recovery and help them in their lifelong journey.
It takes a community, invested for the long haul.
The hard work of real change is next to impossible without a stable, supportive community. Our unhoused friends need to know they are worthy of help, and they have the time and resources needed to stay the course. Practicing new habits, learning news way of life is never going to be a quick and easy process, but it will always be worth it—and worth supporting.
Together, we can pave a pathway through what often feels impossible.
