Before POWER Charlotte was a typical, happy little girl until the age of six, when she was sexually molested by a friend’s grandfather. Sadly, Charlotte didn’t have counseling and kept what she calls the “indescribable pain” inside. ”My spirit was broken,” she says. In her early teens, she discovered alcohol. ”It took me outside of myself and… Continue Reading
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Women Share How POWER Changed Their Lives
Before & After Clean and sober for 19 years, Maria has worked as a nurse, a financial planner, an ordained minister, and a clothing designer. Before POWER: “I didn’t feel like I was living.” At POWER: “My counselor at POWER told me that I wasn’t a failure, I had a disease.” After POWER: “There are… Continue Reading
A POWER Success Story, Carla
Carla is a pioneer. She was one of the first women in Pittsburgh to be hired by U. S. Steel to work in its mills. She was also one of POWER’s first clients; she entered the halfway house in 1991, the year it opened. Carla was a steelworker for four years. First she repaired train… Continue Reading
Dana, Eight Years Clean and Sober
SUCCESS STORY: DANA Dana started drinking when she was 11 years old. Like so many young people, she did it to fit in. What started as a social activity developed, in Dana’s words, “into a full time job”. By age 16, she was a heroin addict. Somehow Dana managed to graduate from high school. Her… Continue Reading
Power Celebrates National Recovery Month With Sunflower Power
To celebrate National Recovery Month in September, PerLora Leather in the Strip will host Sunflower POWER – a party benefiting POWER (Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery) and highlighting The POWER Collection. The event starts at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 15th. The POWER Collection is an innovative cause marketing partnership between POWER and… Continue Reading
POWER Graduates Will be Honored at POWER PROMISES – A Night of Hope
The 2010 POWER PROMISES ~ A Night of Hope event is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 13, at Heinz Field in the West Club Lounge. One of Pittsburgh’s premier fundraising events, POWER PROMISES will feature graduates of the organization’s gender-responsive alcohol and drug treatment programs whose stories of recovery are a testament to… Continue Reading
POWER’S Winter Fundraiser is Straight Out of the 50′s
Dinner and Doo-Woop The calendar may say it’s 2010, but on Wednesday, January 20, POWER will be time-traveling to the ’50s. Dust off your saddle shoes, throw on your poodle skirt, hop in your hot rod, and cruise on over to Atria’s for a blast from the past!
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