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Union Gospel Mission: June 26, 2014
Overcoming poverty, addiction and abuse By Ron Hauenstein, UGM high-impact volunteer Staff and volunteers at the Union Gospel Mission experience a constant cycle of emotional highs and lows. Daily we watch wounded people struggle to overcome...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: June 20, 2014
The Living, Breathing Story By Barbara Comito, UGM writer Sometimes I love my job. Tuesday night was one of those times. Twenty-five men and women...
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Union Gospel Mission: June 20, 2014
Editor's Note: Roxanne Jenkins graduated from the UGM LIFE Recovery program on June 17, 2014. In this short graduation speech, she turns the focus...
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Union Gospel Mission: June 6, 2014
An Immersion in Trust By Darlene Willis, a resident at the UGM Center for Women & Children in Coeur d'Alene Last Friday morning, the weather was warm...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: June 3, 2014
This is the second of a 2-part interview with Mental health Counselor Dave Edwards on how addiction affects all our lives. The first part, How do you...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: May 29, 2014
"Aged to Perfection" by Hannah Jo Hannah Jo, 2013 camp intern, read this letter yesterday at Dennis Roach's retirement celebration. Dennis has been...
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Union Gospel Mission: May 22, 2014
Glenda's Journey “My son had to literally peel my hands off the gate as I entered the Crisis Shelter,” says Glenda Bogart. “I was afraid and couldn’t...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: May 20, 2014
Dennis Roach: 40 years of working with young people Youth Outreach Director Dennis Roach is retiring at the end of June after 13 years with the Union...
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Union Gospel Mission: May 14, 2014
On the Road to My Dream Job By Trinity McLaughlin, 2013 Recovery Graduate In the words of my favorite musical, “Let’s start at the very beginning, a...
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Union Gospel Mission: May 9, 2014
By Marsha Reese Voc/Ed Coordinator at the UGM Center for Women & Children The other day I was completing some paperwork in my office while a group of...
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Union Gospel Mission: May 6, 2014
Ken and Jenny Weddle and their three boys live at UGM Camp (formerly Tshimakain Creek Camp) - 125 acres bordering the Spokane River near Ford,...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: May 1, 2014
Addiction is so much bigger than drugs & alcohol. In this interview, Dave Edwards, a Spokane mental health professional and former UGM counselor,...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: April 18, 2014
A Junkie No More Photo by Robert Peterson Eddie Collins was the subject of my first newsletter feature when I came to UGM in January 2008. He had...
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Union Gospel Mission: April 1, 2014
Do you remember the darkest dark you’ve ever experienced? I know I do.
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: April 1, 2014
This is the second of two posts on UGM’s self-evaluation process. The first, “The courage to ask why I do what I do” explains how the process plays...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: March 26, 2014
Change requires courage. Often when I forget why I am here – why I am writing yet another newsletter story, wracking my brain for a bit of Facebook...
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Union Gospel Mission: March 20, 2014
Part 2 in our series on "The Crisis: a troubling reality." Read part 1, Homeless Women: Who Will Belive in Them?
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: March 14, 2014
Reason #1: Shari Griffin Shari, 50, just finished the first four phases of the LIFE Recovery program at the UGM Center for Women & Children in Coeur...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: March 6, 2014
“Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.”―...
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Union Gospel Mission: March 3, 2014
An Interview with Jillian Devine Jillian Devine started her tenure with UGM in Women's Recovery at Anna Ogden Hall back in 2004 and is now the lead...
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Union Gospel Mission: February 27, 2014
Recovery Kid-Style Of the 386 guests staying at UGM's four shelters on a recent evening, 99 of them were children. Not only do these children need...
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Union Gospel Mission: February 25, 2014
Editor's Note: This is the first in a regular series, "The Crisis: a Troubling Reality." We will begin to examine and discuss the causes, conditions...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: February 21, 2014
Just say no. Not even once. DARE to keep kids off drugs and alcohol. The problem with these anti-drug slogans is twofold: 1) their simplicity belies...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: February 18, 2014
(This article was posted in 2014 and updated in 2019.) UGM: the Whole Person Approach In its quest to break – not perpetuate – the cycle of...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: February 13, 2014
When the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died of a heroin overdose, public reaction ran the gamut from disgust to sympathy. One controversial church...
