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We invite you to support Elevate so that we can continue to support the people who mean so much to you — your family member, friend, co-worker or neighbor!
We know recovery from substance abuse and mental illness IS POSSIBLE — and so do these clients, who, because of the support they received or are currently receiving from our staff, are in recovery.
Read their stories of recovery and consider a donation to Elevate to help us help more folks find and stay in recovery from addiction and mental illness.
Lisa
Lisa became addicted to pain pills prescribed by her doctor to help her manage migraines. After years of using, she turned to Heroin. Today she credits Elevate and other community resources in helping her get into and stay in recovery. One day, Lisa hopes to open a sober living home for women.
Julie
Julie was in active addiction for 17 years. During those years she chose drugs over her daughter and family as well as her job and even herself. She was in and out of jail and treatment for years. Finding herself pregnant for the second time, Julie chose Drug Court and Elevate to help her find and stay in recovery. She has been sober for more than two years. Her goal is to continue being a true mom to her two children.
Tasha J.
Tasha became addicted to pain meds as a teen after giving birth to her first child. She continued to use and abuse them for years after that but turned to Heroin as it was cheaper, more potent and easily available. She ultimately lost custody of her girls, her family disowned her and she lost her job and ended up living on the streets. Drug Court and Elevate showed her a different way and today she is sober, in a healthy relationship and she has her girls back. Plus, she as a stable job as a supervisor and is buying a new home where they can all be together—including her new baby son.
Alysia
Alysia struggled as a young Hispanic girl growing up in a home where her family abused alcohol and drugs. By nine she was using herself. By the time she was 20 she ended up serving three and a half years in prison. After her release she went right back to using and was sent back to prison for an additional two years. Alysia credits Drug Court and Elevate with saving her life as she is back in recovery and has regained custody of her 14-year-old son. She hopes to graduate from college and become a Substance Abuse Counselor.
Sarena
After years of prescription drug abuse which began after a pregnancy and later an ACL injury , Serena became dependent on the drugs just to function. During the Pandemic she lost her job and gained a lot of weight. Her doctor recommended a diet but also prescribed a stimulant to help her maintain a weigh loss. A neighbor introduced her to Methamphetamines, and she ended up being arrested and sent to Drug Court. Within a few months of participating in the program Elevate facilitates with Drug Court, Serena says her life changed. She credits the coping skills and mindfulness training she receives with the success she is experiencing in recovery and the positive changes she sees with her children and her health.
Tasha W.
As Tasha herself says, she was “fighting Demons” who wanted to end her life. She decided to fight back however, and called Elevate for help. She’s in a good place now but admittedly she’s still fighting those demons. The difference, according to Tasha, is that she’s not alone. With the support she’s receiving, her dream to live a fulfilling life free from alcohol, with a home and a family, are in reach. Recovery is possible!
Wendy
Wendy started drinking when she was just 12 years old. As a youth, she drank so much that she ended up hospitalized twice. As the years passed, she turned to other drugs and what she called reckless behavior. She even tried to take her life. Going through a messy divorce and battling bipolar disease only made things more difficult. She started to self-harm through cutting and increased her substance abuse. Then, one day, she made the decision to get the help she needed to stop using and get the support she needed for her addiction and mental illness. She’s on her road to recovery with the hopes and dreams we all have—a life where she can live independently in a safe and secure home with family who loves, understands and supports her.
Austin
Austin credits Elevate and Drug Court with saving his life! By the Summer of 2022, after years of substance abuse, Heroin and Fentanyl had taken control of his life. He overdosed three times that Summer. He was as he said, a broken man, literally a shell of himself. The drugs had taken everything from him but most importantly, his three sons. He started the Drug Court program with little confidence that he’d make it through even the first phase. But, with support from folks at Elevate and others in the community, he finally felt like he had a fighting chance. Now sober for many months, he has his kids and family back and he feels more confident than ever that recovery is possible! All he wants now is to be the best dad he can be for his boys.
SHEBOYGAN RESIDENTS NEED YOUR HELP!
Picture for a moment a time when you felt alone, helpless, and without hope for the future. Can you remember the pain? The loneliness? Do you remember how you fought against these overwhelming feelings? Perhaps your family or friends were there to help. Perhaps you had the resources to get professional help.
Now, put yourself in the shoes of someone who couldn’t pull themselves out of that despair. Statistically, there is a strong likelihood that someone you know couldn’t deal with the pain and so they attempted to or took their own life. Their hopelessness overwhelmed them to the point where they felt they had no other option. What if you could have provided them with an option—an option that gave them hope—that saved their life.
In 2019, Elevate became Sheboygan County’s only provider of temporary residential care for those experiencing a mental health crisis or substance abuse. Calm Harbor, our crisis stabilization residence, provides a safe haven for people to stay and resources to help them resolve their crisis. Calm Harbor is an alternative to a behavioral health hospital, which provides a higher level of medical care than is often needed.
Elevate needs to move our Calm Harbor residence to a new facility to ensure client safety and a more healing environment for Sheboygan County residents. Under a new agreement with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, the short-term residential facility will relocate to a shared space currently owned by Catholic Charities at 503 Wisconsin Avenue, in downtown Sheboygan.
Elevate has contracted with Quasius Construction to perform the needed renovations to ensure the facility meets the requirements of licensing as a Community Based Residential Facility (CBRF) as well as the needs of people that we serve. The new residence will provide improved security for residents as well as necessary environmental improvements for up to ten adults at a time. It will feature a communal living and dining room with shared bedrooms and an outdoor living/recreational space.
We are at over 50% of our $625,000 goal for the renovations and also in need of furnishings for the new facility. If you can help, please click the donate button below or reach out to Mary Simon
Funds Needed for Inpatient Drug Treatment Scholarship Fund
Can you help? Elevate regularly has clients who are in urgent need of residential treatment. We are seeking donations to make this care possible for them. The need is ongoing as there are clients that regularly enter Elevate's programs who do not have the ability-- for one reason or another-- to access inpatient treatment. Without it, they may very likely fail in their attempt to achieve long-term recovery.
Each year Elevate serves an average of about 70 clients in our Substance Abuse Diversion Programs. Oftentimes, they are in need of inpatient therapy to be successful on their path to recovery. More than likely, they have already tried other levels of care and have not been successful. Because of a lack of insurance or inability to cover the costs, they cannot take advantage of inpatient treatment, which could be critical to their success.
At a cost of nearly $4000 for a 30-day stay, inpatient care is just out of reach for some.
Every client who comes to us has a different life story. Some have more support from family and their community. Some have more resources. Others do not.
Our staff is currently working with a client who is in need of residential treatment. His mother recently passed away. His father has two teenage children in the family home and he is not currently welcome to live there. He was staying with an uncle, but the uncle is actively using drugs—not an optimal environment in which to maintain sobriety.
The client has been in treatment a number of times over the years, yet he has not been able to maintain long-term sobriety to strengthen his recovery given his lack of access to sober living and support and the inability to obtain inpatient treatment.
He would be an ideal candidate for residential treatment followed by a sober living arrangement, as he has not lived on his own or held a job outside of his family and he needs to build a sober support community.
This client is just one example of the many individuals who want to stop using but face insurmountable hurdles. A scholarship fund could assist him, and all those who need support, in overcoming a very important hurdle.
Ideally, Elevate would like to create an ongoing endowment to fund scholarships for residential treatment to assist those most in need.
Will you please consider a donation to help us help those who need inpatient treatment?
Donations can be made by clicking the button below or mailed to Elevate at N169W21005 Meadow Lane, Jackson, WI, 53037. Please specify Inpatient Scholarship Fund.
DONATE TO THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND HERE
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