I believe in what we do. Both my wife & I have a great passion for Center Point Inc. and the work being done... “Changing Lives…Connecting Communities” ...... Giving children their Mommy & Daddys back

I arrived to center point 5 mo ago and didn't know the things that I know now, I was stubborn and thought that I knew a lot I am so very happy god put me in this program. I have learned a lot about myself and as well as my children centerpoint have so much to offer and I turned willing to recive every thing I have learned I I am now looking for work I have so much support every thing fell into place for me, my daughter is very healthy going to school everyday counseling and childcare Iam ready to see the world in a different way know

I came into Center Point on my own accord 4 and 1/2 months ago. At that time I had no idea what an impact this program would have on my life, as well as my son's. I have made many mistakes in my past and I reached a point where I had lost any hope for my future. I came into Center Point completely defeated and surrendered myself to this program. As difficult as this program is for myself and my son, I find that the major challenge lies within myself and my ability to take the initiative to make a positive change and allow growth within my mind, body, and soul. Center Point has given me this opportunity. I am extremely grateful for all the doors that are opening for me. As long as I get up every morning and I am willing to do the work that is expected of me, good things will continue to happen. I feel like a major transformation has occurred within me and I look forward to use the skills that I have learned while I have been at Center Point.

I have worked for Center Point for over seven years and have seen first-hand how this organization has helped improve the lives of many people. Operating as a nonprofit, there is always uncertainty that funding may not be secure for the long haul. Center Point has made strides in securing their future with smart business decisions; building connections and relationships in the community, as well as, within the field of recovery and; through faithful planning. They recognize that their existence as a human services organization is important to the community and the clients they serve, as such; they work hard to achieve success in everything they do.

On a personal note, I have not only been an employee of Center Point but have also been a recipient of their services. By believing in me and teaching me that I had something more to offer the world, they helped me believe in myself. This was integral to me changing the direction of my life. It has been said that to be good is honorable, but to show others how to be good is the highest honor and Center Point does embody this belief. I was able to completely transform my life and I know in my heart that the catalyst was Center Point. I am eternally grateful for the opportunity to receive services from Center Point and the friends I found while there. For all these reasons, it is important to me that Center Point will always be available to others in need.

“The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.” - George Bernard Shaw

My Nickolas Sarrigeorgiou I had to go to volunteer for a day,in San Rafael .
It was a great experience and a awakening how centers like that can change people's life's .
I will highly recommend for people to volunteer and save our community.
Center Point thank u . Keep doing great job!!!!!

My name is Katerina Daraki after a personal set back in my life I ask to volunteer in the center at
Lincoln ave. in San Rafael . It was a warm hearted experience .I never thought they are people in my lifetime so dedicated to improve others peoples life's .An amazing stuff all hard and soul
24/7 unconditional support and knowledge try to solve clients problems , and believe me they were a
Lots of that. I never before in my life I had to be and see how determine everybody in the center they are to have drug free and healthy mine environment and HELP clients to teach them how they can start leaving healthy LiFES. I always be grateful for the opportunity I had to be hands on for the center.
I will highly recommend for people to donate time or money it is all to an a amazing organization .
Katerina Daraki.

I was a client of Center Points after giving birth to my daughter, tox-positive, and having her taken away from me by CPS due to my drug and alcohol abuse. Without Center Point I would never have been able to really change my life to become the person I am today. I learned that I really wanted to be a parent, not the selfish, awful human being I had become. Center Point really stuck with me and helped me learn what I needed to learn about myself. I am 18 years clean and sober. My daughter was returned to me after I graduated Center Point and my son was able to come live with me full time a short while later. I am forever grateful to Center Point for giving me the ability to live the life I had wanted to live with my kids and others. Volunteering has become a big part of my life. Their After Care Program was and is just as important to me. I know that if I needed to go back today to discuss and work on something Center Point would be right there trying to help me figure it out. I often look up to the sky and thank Center Point for saving my family.

I am a certified substance abuse counselor, with over seven years experience working in the field of substance abuse treatment. My experience in working with Center Point has always been a positive one. From the professional demeanor of its employees, to the exemplary leadership role modeled by its executive staff, Center Point is a model for what an integrated substance abuse/mental health human services agency should look like.

I am so very grateful to have found an organization like Center Point. Not only have they made a huge difference in my family’s life, but I’ve see them do it for countless people in this community. Thank you!

My Story

I am a single mother of two daughters.
Before finding Center Point in 2010 I had been living in a motel for almost a year with my children.
I was referred to Center Point as it had a reputation for being “tough” and was a program that offered services that could benefit me and my struggling family.

I began attending groups that centered around topics such as Life Skills, Parenting, Anger Management, and Cognitive Thinking. I learned how to incorporate important concepts into my daily life, such as Integrity and Responsibility. Through the group process and writing assignments, I developed useful tools that have helped me to remain a sober, healthy, contributing member of the community.

Before entering treatment I had been unsuccessful in keeping any sort of stable housing or employment. At Center Point, I received support in Job Readiness and before I even left residential I had found a full time job. I am still working and continue to receive support from the program with money management, budgeting, and saving for the future.

But most importantly, my children’s lives have benefitted greatly from this experience. After my graduation in July 2011, I was granted full primary physical custody of both girls, and my CPS case was closed permanently. Center Point also helped guide me through court proceedings, and as a result I no longer have pending criminal cases, and my court probation had been lifted.

My kids have a stable life today, and I am a stable parent. Today I am an active member of the Center Point Alumni Association, where I can listen and share my experiences in the hope of reaching out and helping those addicts who still suffer. We also plan and organize clean and sober events in the community.

Again!!
I am so very grateful to have found an organization like Center Point. Not only have they made a huge difference in my family’s life, but I’ve see them do it for countless people in this community. Thank you!

I came to Center Point in 1997 after living on the streets of San Francisco and Marin using illicit substances. I was broken and had a tremendous amount of shame and guilt for abandoning my family. My disease had robbed me of all of my life goals and dreams. Coming to Center Point help me to become the women I always dreamed I could be. learning the Concepts (values) taught me that I am worthy and that I can be and should be accountable for my life choices. The treatment services Center Point staff provided me allowed me to make life altering changes. For that I am eternally grateful to the Center Point Organization. This month I celebrate 16 years of sobriety! Today I am a productive, tax paying member of society working with women and children whom lives have been impacted by the disease of addiction.

After 20 years of addiction and criminal behavior I ended up in jail several times and then prison had no real direction or value in life after coming to center point and applying the concepts in my day to day life I am very proud to say I am the complete opposite today I have value in everything I do my life is worth living I am a proud father and husband with solid direction in my life and I owe all of this to center point for allowing me to find out who I really am thank you

I was aware of Center Point and recommended that a friend of the family apply for treatment in the San Rafael men's program. This friend had been abusing various drugs for many years and had failed to complete any previous attempts at treatment. He had also refused to go to 12-step or other fellowship type meetings.

My friend went into the program about two years ago and stayed through to completion! He has remained drug-free ever since and still uses the "concept words" that he learned when he was at Center Point. Not only is he still drug-free, his family and friends all agree that he is more mature, more responsible and more accountable! We could not be happier for him or that Center Point exists!

After nearly a decade of abuse I ended up on the streets as a young teenager and turned to drugs. I spent the next 25 years addicted to drugs and all that came with it. Before coming to Center Point I had lost my wife and children my home and my freedom. My mental health condition was fragile to say the least.
After coming to Center Point I have completely changed my life, I have my children back, re married to a great women and about to be a grandfather. I have been educated in the field of addition and have a carrier that I am proud of. I work in the field as a program manager helping others get what was given to me.
I am forever grateful to Center Point.

By the time I made it to Center Point I was lost in my addiction so bad. I finally came to the point where I had no choices and I had to do something different. The six months in residential gave me a second chance at life. The continued aftercare allowed fir me to feel a part of as I grew in my recovery. Today I continue to use the concepts and tools Center point has given me. My life is more than I had imagined it would be.

Center Point has done so much for me! I am glad to have found the strength and courage to walk through those doors, and the courage to hold on to my seat no matter what! Although I really had no idea what was on the other side, I said to my self, better find out now, instead of later! I had never been to a drug rehab before!, lucky for me I picked the best one! Who knew that my 15 year drug run would come to a end on June 23 2009! I would have never guessed that I would be living in San Rafael!, I sure did not think I would ever give up getting high! Yet here I stand, okay let me rephrase that, here I sit! A clean and sober, responsible, caring, hard working, smart, employee /Alumni / with that same great laugh, Only now that I'm off the dope I can actually Here my laugh! What a great laugh it is! ,Thanks to Center point today and every other day I am accountable not only for my self but for my Center Point brothers and sister! All in time my boy all in time! I guess that was my first behavior modification Lesson! Wow a house full of men, what the hell am I doing here I thought, not to late I can just leave now doors are open! That was the addict in me saying lets blow this joint and go get high! I am very grateful for the lessons and skills that center point taught me. Not only did I stay there for the six months I was able to get my certificate. For someone who never finished high school, that was very rewarding and emotional ! I can finally say that I finished something! Ah hello only the most important test you will ever take in your life~! And that is the test to save your life!
I would like to say thank you to everyone at Center Point who made it possible for me to get the treatment that I needed! I would also like to thank them for giving me the brothers, sisters and friends that I never had, and the biggest bag that they make so that I may stuff it so full of all the TOOLS that I acquired! You must stay 50 paces ahead of the disease, If something should happen, you want to always have your tools right next to you! I sometimes wonder were I would be if Center point had not come in to my life. To sum it up in a nut shell, Center Point saves lives, reunites family's, helps with housing,
Center Point saved my life!
I am very proud to be able to call myself a Client, Alumni, and employee!

One of the greatest experiences if my life no rehab has ever helped me stay clean longer than 6 months I have over two years now

Second chances do not come very often in life. I mean like real second chances; second chances to be a better person, to do better things and have a better life. Most addicts, myself included, allow themselves to settle for less than what they are worth because they don't believe they deserve more. Center Point taught me to have faith in myself and to know, without a shadow of a doubt, that my life is important and I do matter. I love the person I am today. Thanks to Center Point I have been given an opportunity, a second chance, to change who I used to be into who I want to be. The Center Point Concepts rule my life today and I try to live by them every single day. Thank you, Sushma for creating Center Point.

I cannot even begin to express what all Center Point has done for our family. My son was battling drug addiction and was in and out of rehabs. After being sent out to CA for rehab and relapsing he was arrested and was mandated to Center Point for a year. We lived on the other side of the United States and felt helpless. We are so fortunate that the Judge gave him the opportunity and sent him there. Center Point became his family and changed his life. He stayed on there and worked for them for a few years. Then went back to school studied advertising and they were so supportive. We cannot say enough about Dr. Taylor. Her life is helping others and the work she does is truly amazing. The help he received gave him the tools to turn his life around, and gave us back our son. And for that we will always be grateful.

"It's A Wonderful Life!" is an uplifting Hollywood classic movie of hope and redemption shot in the 1940s starring Jimmy Stewart. It's my favorite. But I also have a front row center seat in real life which I've occupied each and every day since 1996 as landlord of two of Center Point's residence homes in San Rafael, California. At both I've witnessed game changing comebacks in health and attitude of the residents themselves. And I've stood and cheered as each received their graduation diploma upon graduation... now well on their way to a "Wonderful NEW Life!" Dave Bartruff

Center Point was by far one of the most defining experiences in my life and I am eternally grateful for the help I received from this organization. I needed structured help to turn my life around and end a vicious spiral of addiction and crime. I had no idea how to stop, or even where to begin changing my life. It was my first and only attempt at treatment and I had no idea what to expect. At first it was awkward, strange, difficult and painful, but through this program, I got my life back. I was able to get a job and quickly excelled at that job to become a manager. I learned tools and skills that allowed me to "live life on life's terms." It was the most amazing experience one could ever have asked for. The residential program was only the beginning of the journey. They also provided aftercare services and basically, lifelong support and today I not only have a large group of friends that constitute my support group, but I also know that should I ever need anything, I can always count on the support of my Center Point family and Center Point as an organization. This program works! No matter what your age, race, creed, color, religion, political preferences, education, work experience may be, I have seen this program turn so many peoples lives around and reunited families. I was told when I came there to set goals as to what I want out of the program. I said I wanted to be free of my addiction, I wanted a job, I wanted a place to live, I wanted to get in touch with my family again. It only took 6 months for that to happen. Today I am pursuing my dream together with my partner and I couldn't be happier. My family got their son and their brother back and I got a life back. Truly the best investment of time that anyone can do for themselves.