Angie remembers what it felt like when her home was raided for drugs, and her kids were taken away.
“I’ll never forget when my little ones were pulling on my shirt. That’s when I knew it had to stop. I was dependent on meth before. I went to jail for three and a half months. I was scared, I was away from my kids, it was horrible.”
“After jail, I went into a residential program called FRC, the Family Recovery Center, where I could prove that I was really serious about quitting and getting my life and my family back together. It was a year-long program, and towards the end, someone told me about North County Solutions for Change.
I heard it was a great program that helps you unite your entire family again, and I knew that’s what I wanted. I actually got accepted to Solutions before graduating FRC, but told them I wanted to finish FRC so I could finish what I started. They let me do that.”
Angie was nervous moving to Solutions - a 32 residential unit project built by Sun Country and opened in 2004. “I was doin’ it all by myself, I didn’t have a husband, or someone to help me like that. It was up to me.”
Angie dove right into the SFC set program of anger management classes, parenting classes, property maintenance, community service, and more. And she succeeded in ways she'd never thought possible.
“We’re into a routine now, it’s great.” she says.
And Angie hopes to shortly graduate the Solutions for Change program, and obtain permanent, affordable housing. “If I could tell Solutions for Change anything, I’d tell them thank you for helping us and all of your support. Solutions for Change helped me get my children back.”
