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Tara had been in and out of treatment 17 times, had experienced incarceration, and had already lost custody of her two older children when she arrived at Freedom House. Her family told her they weren't going to raise another child of hers, and Tara knew if she didn't accept the offer to get treatment, her youngest son would be taken away and put into foster care.
I have personally witnessed the benefit our program provides with its powerful and accountable environment for combating addiction. It is a prevention program for our youngest clients—newborns born free of substances and young children who gain a better understanding of what their family has experienced.
She is insightful and thoughtful and lives a life that was forever changed because of her access to a program that could meet all the needs of her and her son. She still says that the disease wanted her dead, and had it not been for her ability to bring her son with her, she may have stayed on the streets. She wouldn't be living a fulfilling life today.Jennifer is pictured speaking at an event marking the expansion at Freedom House.
The urgency I felt to expand our program so that all addicted, pregnant and parenting women who needed us could have access was intensified by witnessing, inside my own family, the heartbreaking outcomes that can befall infants born substance-exposed.We tripled the capacity of Freedom House in Louisville in 2018 and expanded to serve southeastern Kentucky in 2020. This part of Appalachia was devastated by opioids, and we were the first program to open our doors and welcome whole families.
Following a schedule with meals and activities that bring people together around a kitchen table to learn and be together. Kids laughing, babies crying and mothers fixing dinner. Building a sense of connection and belonging and being nurtured to be their very best.
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