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We have good news to share about Betty Johnson!

Betty’s battle with alcohol started when she moved from Little Rock to St. Louis at age 20. She got into conflicts, became depressed, and eventually became homeless. After getting into recovery, she came to St. Patrick Center’s Shamrock Club.
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We have good news to share about Sonja Lee!

Sonja is a recovering addict, and today she knows how her addiction led her down the wrong path. She lost custody of her two daughters; she was homeless and living in transitional recovery housing.
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We have good news to share about Cathey Allen & Rene Upshaw!

AU Innovative Lawn Management is a new company in St. Patrick Center’s BEGIN New Venture Center (BNVC) small business incubator. Owners Cathey Allen and Rene Upshaw started the business to be entrepreneurs and earn income.
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We have good news to share about Don Fogarty!

Don was vice president of operations at Maritz Research when his job was eliminated due to the economic crisis. After nine years at Maritz and for the first time in his life, he was unemployed.
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We have good news to share about Nancy Shoup!

Nancy was working at Anheuser-Busch for many years when her job was eliminated due to the economic crisis. As she processed what had happened to her, she knew she would have to keep her spirits up and maintain a positive attitude.
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Patti Cook has been permanently, positively changed.
Patti Cook’s issues with alcohol, losing a job and health problems led to her homelessness. She says living on the streets and in shelters was a way of surviving, but a dangerous one for women.
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Mary Fitz has been permanently, positively changed.
Mary Fitz had an alcohol problem. “I was drinking every day and didn’t know any other way to live,” she recalls. Mary was living in a condemned building with no lights, water or heat.
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John Hicks has been permanently, positively changed.
For John Hicks, drug use came later in life. He was in his 30’s, became depressed with his family situation and started hanging out with the wrong crowd. Before long, John was homeless.
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We have good news to share about Javonna!
Javonna remembers the days after her mother died when she would walk the streets in her drug addiction, with nowhere to go. This young mother of ten children, including three sets of twins, has been to treatment 27 times.
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Cedric Winthrope has been permanently, positively changed.
The child of an alcoholic mother, Cedric Winthrope battled alcohol abuse since youth. He cared for his mother until her death, but family problems afterward led to his homelessness. 
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Edward Chew has been permanently, positively changed.
Edward Chew says he was once a walking drug store, using every kind of drug he could, including marijuana and crack cocaine. 
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Geraldine Drake has been permanently, positively changed.
Geraldine Drake had an excellent life and a nice career, but she lost it all to drugs and alcohol in the streets. 
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Edward Johnson has been permanently, positively changed.
Edward Johnson says drinking was once the main thing on his list, and his life got out of control. 
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Toni Jordan has been permanently, positively changed.
Toni Jordan developed a crack cocaine habit that took her and her children down many avenues.  
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Lois Mueller has been permanently, positively changed.
Lois Mueller became homeless when a 17-year relationship ended. At the age of 47, she didn't want to go home to Mom and Dad, so she chose the streets.  
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Eric Shaw has been permanently, positively changed.
When Eric Shaw was younger, he witnessed his family falling apart. His mother passed away, as well as one of his sisters.  
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Charlene Washington has been permanently, positively changed
Charlene Washington had reached a breaking point in her life. She was an alcoholic, a drug addict and a prostitute.  
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Frank McDowell has been permanently, positively changed
Frank McDowell says life on the streets is no fun at all, and he would know. He was homeless, staying in shelters and unsure where his next meal would come from.  
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Tim Rush has been permanently, positively changed
Tim Rush always envisioned more for his life than the way it turned out. Using drugs and dealing them landed him in prison on more than one occasion. 
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Joe Koski has been permanently, positively changed
When we introduced you to Joe Koski, he was getting settled into an apartment after being homeless for most of his life.
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Kevin Bradford has been permanently, positively changed
Kevin Bradford was a homeless veteran, battling alcohol and drug addictions that started when he was a young man in the military.
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Steven Bell has been permanently, positively changed
Steven recalls a good childhood growing up in St. Louis. He graduated from Soldan High School, but it was there that he was first introduced to drugs.
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Roland Bob Harris has been permanently, positively changed
Roland Bob Harris will never forget Katrina. He’s not your typical homeless story, just like Katrina was not your typical hurricane.
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Brittany Campbell has been permanently, positively changed
As a teenager, Brittany Campbell was down, hopeless and doing things she shouldn’t be doing.
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William Terrell has been permanently, positively changed
If it breaks, William Terrell fixes it. That’s his job at Kitchen K restaurant in downtown St. Louis. But that’s also the story of his life.
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