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Physical Therapy Partnership: Caring for the whole person
Providing Essential Resources UGM relies on the support of the community to offer comprehensive care to individuals in need. One of the lesser-known...
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2023: A year of kindness
Jessica Morgan, Director of Marketing and Communications: January 4, 2024
When we think back on the last year, there’s an overwhelming sense of goodwill and support from the Inland Northwest community that seems to only...
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Breaking up with Addiction: a letter from a resident
Jessica Morgan, Director of Marketing and Communications: October 19, 2023
UGM program resident Jessika wrote a “breaking up with addiction letter” and shared at the fall LIFE Recovery Phase Promotion. Women receiving...
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“In my first hit, my soul was celled”: A poem by Alora
UGM's 18-month-long residential recovery program, LIFE Recovery, is designed to help residents find freedom from addiction and other destructive...
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Dear Monster: A UGM resident’s letter to addiction
Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: February 16, 2023
Written by Chrystin and read at the fall 2022 LIFE Recovery phase promotion at UGM's Center for Women and Children. Dear Monster,
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Breaking Free of Addiction: Anjelique's full-circle story
Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: December 28, 2022
Written by former UGM resident Anjelique Pennington, December 2022
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Healing from Addiction: Shanena's written testimony
Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: November 9, 2022
Shanena (pronounced Shane-na) completed UGM Women's LIFE Recovery at the Center for Women and Children in Spring 2022 and recently reached out to...
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Valuable and Worthy: Debra’s Journey Toward Holistic Recovery
Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: November 2, 2022
“For a couple years, I was running the streets. Had lost my job, my kids, my house, everything.” Although 2017 and 2018 were two of the hardest years...
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Rose: Rising to the Challenge of Recovery
“Drugs all day long. Meth.” Rose fell into addiction in her late twenties, and for the next 32 years, her life was defined by loss, loneliness and...
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Connect and Be Changed
Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: February 17, 2022
Guest post by Lynn Yount, former UGM writer. Melissa Ashline has a lot of irons in the fire. She’s a nanny and a businesswoman and a mother of...
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The Heart of Stewardship: A UGM Partner Feature
Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: January 27, 2022
Don "Pepper" and Midge Smock of Coeur d’Alene are humble leaders in the community, encouraging generosity out of their desire to see the gospel go...
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Empathy and Accountability: A Probation Officer’s Unique Partnership with UGM
Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: January 13, 2022
Picture a man with a badge and a gun chaperoning women at a recovery center Valentine’s Day gala. Now, picture him in tears as he presents handmade...
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Meet Talia: Satisfied in Christ
Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: September 30, 2021
Written and read by Talia, UGM Resident, at a phase promotion event, August 2021. When I was a little girl, I would look out my window at night and...
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An Offering of Oil: When God Asks Imperfect People to Serve Imperfect People
Written by Lauren McCrea, Volunteer Mentor, UGM Center for Women & Children I just thought I was going in to buy a new pair of running shoes, but God...
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Voices of Recovery: Beverly’s Testimony
Beverly Clark is enrolled in LIFE Recovery at the UGM Center for Women and Children. This is her testimony. “Without a question, I was a loved child....
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Failure Is Not the End of Recovery
“I never fully surrendered.” Vickie Proctor finished UGM Women’s LIFE Recovery in 2019. She got a job, she moved out, she was honored at...
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Ending Self-Destruction: Sarah’s Story
Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: April 22, 2021
Caution to the reader: This story contains references to abortion, prostitution and human trafficking. “Sarah, I really want to help you.” Sometimes...
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Dusty's Second Chance
Union Gospel Mission: December 4, 2019
By Lynn Yount, UGM volunteer - At the UGM Thrift Store in Spokane Valley, you'll find more than bargains on high-quality clothing and housewares....
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Running on the Road to Recovery
Barbara Comito, former marketing director: June 26, 2019
What in the world do running and homelessness have to do with each other? You might be surprised.
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Lifelong Recovery
Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: June 11, 2019
Five years. It takes five years actively pursuing recovery for an addict to have a strong chance (about 85%) of lifelong recovery. Five years minus...
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Renewing Her Mind
Barbara Comito, former marketing director: March 13, 2019
Before coming to the UGM Center for Women and Children in Coeur d’Alene, Nikki Downs was in jail. Her infant son had been taken by Child Protective...
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Beyond Sobriety to Life Transformation
Union Gospel Mission: March 6, 2019
By Kirste Richards, LIFE Recovery Intake Counselor, UGM Center for Women and Children - One of the first things a woman hears when she comes to a...
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Homeless and Nowhere to Be
Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: December 11, 2018
Kari had been walking for four days. Literally. She wasn’t going anywhere. She didn’t need the exercise. She was walking because her life had come to...
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Restoring Children to a Healthy Home
Union Gospel Mission: November 28, 2018
By JoAnn Zajicek, Director, Center for Women and Children - Not yet two years old, the girl consistently wakes up with night terrors. She’s been in...
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House Mom to the Homeless and Broken
Union Gospel Mission: November 8, 2018
Teria Kelley is Resident Services Coordinator at the UGM Center for Women and Children in Coeur d'Alene. But in her own words, her job title is,...