My Nonprofit Reviews

I came into SLA with a duffel bag and not much hope or even desire to go on. I was struggling mentally, emotionally, financially and spiritually. As soon as I sat down to do my intake at the Marietta 1 campus I knew immediately that this was home. SLA was my why and I felt it instantaneously. So often in my addiction I struggled with why I was still alive and why I hadn’t been arrested and so many other why questions. When I came to SLA I found out why. Shortly after my arrival I was presented with the opportunity to come on to staff as a Guest Service trainee and I did. I went through training and learned invaluable information while gaining memorable experiences. The instructors are compassionate about recovery and it shows. But even more than simple recovery, they are compassionate period. Kenneth, Jerry, Tiffany, Caylan, Danny, Jason, and Justin are just a few of the amazing staff members and teachers who passed on knowledge to me that I have been able to use to not only stay sober myself, but to pass on to others as well. After guest service training I was selected for Director Training, which I entered and completed. I have now been blessed and entrusted with an opportunity to lead my own campus in Ft. Worth. I am currently surrounded with a group of men and women who have healing, sobriety, and growth on their minds. And even still I have a support system in place that is there to teach me and guide me as I continue this path. SLA isn’t perfect, and I won’t begin to lie and say it is. Do we have relapses? Yes of course we do, we are all addicts. Do we have people who mess up? We obviously do because we are all humans. But, at the end of the day there are far more positives than negatives and there are way way more good people than bad. Our directors, guest services, drivers, regionals, instructors, etc are all people in recovery who maintain their sobriety while also guiding others in their own paths of sobriety and for the most part, the majority of them do a very good job. No one is perfect. No one is flawless. But we all strive to be better each day than we were the day before.