LAND

10/09/2022

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Wanna have some fun?? Sign up to volunteer at our 1st Annual Spooky Halloween Bash!! We appreciate any time you can help. If available, please sign up via the SignUpGenius link below:

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Thank you SO much,
Barb and the Recovery In Action Subcommittee

09/17/2022

Patricia Hamilton is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting Monday at 6pm.

Topic: Pontiac City counsel meeting and RIA Spooky Bash
Time: This is a recurring meeting Mondays at 6!

Join Zoom Meeting
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09/15/2022

Join us in 2022!

09/13/2022

ROSC is looking for volunteers. Volunteers for FREE FUN!!!

04/22/2022

It's all about the connection people!!!

Let me tell you a story about the nurse who treated me like a human being and how that made all the difference for me. When I was homeless on 103rd st and addicted to he**in, I overdosed and died. I woke up in the Park West ER with this nurse holding my hand. I was scared and alone and he spent the next couple of hours holding my hand and letting me cry with him. Every time I ended up with MRSA raging in my limbs from infections I gave myself from shooting up, he always happened to be my nurse and would help me. And finally on April 1st, the day I went to detox I went to a completely different hospital and he was there. He wasn’t my nurse but saw my name on the board and remembered me. He came in, gave me a hug, and wished me luck on my journey to rehab.

I’ve wanted since I’ve gotten clean to tell him the impact he had on me. Every other nurse had always treated me like scum and the ju**ie that I was because they knew I was just gonna go back out again anyway. He didn’t. He took time out of his busy schedule and made me feel like a person. He held my hand. He talked to me. And he helped me. Today I went back and found him. He’s a manager now which he totally deserves. And nothing made me happier than to thank him for saving my life and for the kindness he showed me in a really dark time in my life.

So thank you, Ali Fares. Hospitals need more people like you. Congratulations on your promotion. You most definitely deserved it. And if you’re reading this and you are wondering how you can help, just treat people like human beings.

04/19/2022

We started LAND in 2017 and Pontiac Aware in 2021 and are making a ton of progress but we need more! Livingston county has the 3rd highest overdose rate in IL, losing one of our citizens each month. What can be done to change this? Does anyone else care? Have you lost someone you love to overdose? We have. I am not exaggerating when I tell you that I know DOZENS of people. It bothered me when it was my friend's dying and it bothers me a lot more when it's my children's friends dying! Tell your story and fight for change with us!

12/29/2021

Oxford House in Granite City IL is in need of 2 women to move into our home. If anyone knows of any women looking for a positive change or if there are any women in recovery interested in a supportive sober living environment immediate openings are available. Anyone can call the house phone and leave a voicemail with your information and we will call you back. This is a good opportunity for anyone looking to get clean and stay clean. You may also send me a message for my direct line and more details about the house.
House phone # 618-501-1040.

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12/17/2021

Broken!
I was in Dollar Tree last night, and there was a lady and two kids behind me in the LONG line. One was a big kid, and the other one was a toddler. The bigger one had a pack of glow sticks, and the toddler was screaming for them. The Mom opened the pack and gave him one which stopped his tears. He walked around with it smiling; but then the bigger boy took it, and the toddler started screaming again. Just as the Mom was about to fuss, the older child bent the glow stick and handed it back to the toddler. As we walked outside at the same time, the toddler noticed that the stick was now glowing; and his brother said, "I had to break it so that you could get the full effect from it."
I almost ran, because l could hear God saying to me, "I had to break you to show you why I created you. You had to go through it so you could fulfill your purpose."
That precious child was happy just swinging that "unbroken" glow stick around in the air, because he didn't understand what it was created to do - which was "glow".
There are some people who will be content just "being," but some of us are chosen... we have to be "broken."
We have to get sick.
We have to lose a job.
We go through a divorce.
We have to bury our spouse, parents, best friend, or our child...
In those moments of desperation, We were broken. But... when the breaking is done, then we will be able to see the reason for which we were created. So when you see us glowing, just know that we have been broken
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11/26/2021

Anyone with anything extra that may keep a homeless person warm let me know! 

"Just 'cause we're here don't mean we're not human," one resident said. "At least give us the decency enough to grab our stuff before you start just throwing it away."

11/06/2021

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